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Originally Posted by TheoFleury
Three years was a bit much if that's all they were designed to do, and I actually like Engelland. I'm just never in favor of giving 30 year old depth players more than two years. Ideally they would sign one year at a time but that probably isn't realistic.
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UFA's don't sign for one year, unless they are desperate for a deal. And at the time the Flames were in a downward spiral. That deal and the Raymond deal made sense. People weren't lining up to toil on the Flames.