Plus it doesn't take much to take a Flames stance on salary and apply a Gio cap when there wasn't one.
The Flames may think he should be paid between 6.5 and 6.75 based on math, not based on Giordano being the highest paid player as a rule.
As I've said numerous times my starting point was always 5.5x5 + 8.5x3 for $6.6 and I certainly wasn't aiming to be under Giordano.
The 5 years of RFA drag the deal down, not a captain that signed a UFA deal.
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