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Originally Posted by Textcritic
There have been several public statements from the Flames, Gaudreau's camp, and Monahan's to suggest that they are indeed close.
Of course, "close" can be interpreted in a number of ways, and the fine points of a complex negotiation can quite often take the longest to sew up. Quite to the contrary, when players and teams are indeed at great odds on matters of term and dollars this information is frequently reported in the media, and there has been nothing at all posited this summer of there being any significant distance between sides in this negotiation.
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Close to me is .5 to 1 mil apart on dollars. When the problem is years, especially when some of the years stretch into UFA, it's not really close. Indications seem to be that that is the sticking point.