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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
If this was a comparable situation to Colborne why would they not qualify Colborne? And a team actually gave two second round picks to Chicago for Shaw. Do you think if Treliving had anything close to that at the draft that he'd not have taken it especially knowing he wasn't going to qualify him?
Calgary could have qualified him and at the very worst paid him Andrew Shaw money for only one year. And they passed.
Again, how is this comparable?
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And Colborne would then file for arbitration and use the contract and career stats as his argument, and the arbitrator could have decided on 2 years. The arbitrator would have no real option than to give him the money. Flames decided to not qualify and hopefully negotiate a more fair deal in free agency and if Colborne won't sign then let him walk.
Arbitration is the problem in the whole equation. If a player has 1 or 2 good years he can cash in.