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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
I'm confused.
So you're saying that it was good for BT pay Brouwer; an aging player with a very limited skill set, a ton of money (which always happens in FA so not holding that against BT at all) long term but somehow it's not good to pay Johnny what could end up being a little too much per year as well?....I get that you need to be able to function as a GM and sort out the rest of the roster but if you don't have your best player on said roster, overpriced players like Brouwer, or whoever else you bring in to compliment the stars mean nothing.
It's quite amusing that some fans are insinuating the team let Johnny go or play hard ball over what is likely a 1M AAV at the expense of what should be a long career as a Flame. A few years ago this would have been blasphemy when Iginla was entering or in his prime years. Two very different players/teams but let's not pretend like either are all that different until we know what we have for sure in the promising supporting cast that includes youngsters like Bennett, Tkachuk, Hamilton etc.
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One thing people have to understand/accept is that, as an RFA, you have limited options. Once you are UFA, you have options.
Brower's money as an RFA would be an overpay, but Brower's money as a UFA is just not really out of line. Sure, we could have traded some assets that another team wants to get a Brower kind of player (under a slightly better salary), but are we going to want to move those assets? Now you may be overpaying on that side of things.
I'll be honest - I definitely want the Flames to get Gaudreau signed. I want him signed for the same years at Monahan, and for a fair dollar figure for both sides (Bingo's article is brilliant for explaining what the number really should be around, and why), but I understand the uniqueness of the contract situation is making that harder than usual.
If Treliving is being unreasonable, I believe the agent would have broken his silence and said "...the Flames are only offering us 5M...".
If the agent is being unreasonable, I believe the Flames would keep their traps shut and work through it (seems the current regime likes to work that way), instead of saying, "... Johnny wants 8M over 5 (or more) years..."
As such, the last thing I want, and this will not be popular to everyone, is if the agent/Johnny are being unreasonable, then I want the Flames to hold their ground. The Calgary Flames are much bigger than just the one player, and I think the Flames are further ahead in the long run missing a month of Johnny, and maybe the playoffs one more time, than paying him an unjustified amount of money just to have him in the lineup.
But maybe that's just me.