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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Not to mention Gaudreau isn't eligible for a NTC for the first 5 years. Take a paycut, get traded...I mean it's a business afterall.
Gaudreau should do what's best for him. The Flames should do what's best for the Flames. You hope that overlaps enough for them to reach a deal.
But the idea of taking less so you can have players like Engelland making 3M on your bottom pairing instead of some 1M, similar quality player? Meh, not that appealing. Not to mention that 99.999% of people advocating for athletes to take less to help the team would never take less to help their company.
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That only applies if they signed Engelland to his deal AFTER Gaudreau makes his sacrifice. Remember, Engelland was signed at a time we wanted to make sure we reached the cap floor.
That being said, if they were to re-up with Engelland next year for the same $, then I would agree with you 100%.