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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

He WAS a perennial 55 point forward. What are the chances he reaches that again?

What about his game suggested to you that getting older made him less effective? Yes he had some groin injury problems last year and he's had some mysterious sickness this year. But his game was never predicated on speed.

I guess. But by that time he was a pending UFA and unlikely to take any sort of reasonable offer.

He signed a contract with the Devils that would be the best contract on the Calgary Flames right nwo.

So the solution to a bad contract is to add another?

One year of term.

I'm not sure exactly what you want Treliving to do. You blast him for handing out contracts while also blasting him for not handing contracts to guys like Hudler, Cammy and Russel. So which is it? Do you want him to supplement the team by paying UFA prices for vets or not?

I want him to spend our cap space (which we will never have again until he is long gone) on impact players - true first line talents, true top 4D rather than on filler players. Filler players should be cheap, not half the salary cap.

I want him to stop handing out bad contracts like Brouwer, Engelland, Raymond, and start handing out cost-effective, good contracts like Hudler, Cammy, Schlemko, and Russell. Or looking elsewhere, contracts like Anton Stralman, Patrick Sharp, Phil Kessel @ whatever Toronto Retained, Ryan O'Rielly, Kyle Okposo, Aleksander Radulov, Paul Byron, TJ Oshie, etc.

Good players deserve to be paid. But this isn't communism where every player should be paid like a good player.

UFA signings at anything significantly greater than vet minimum, should not be for "supplementary" players. They should be for game-changing core pieces.