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Old 12-08-2016, 02:47 PM   #466
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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe View Post
It amazes me how some people cling onto their opinions and refuse to change them, regardless of how much logic is presented their way.

Colborne was on an expiring contract. If the Flames had no interest in bringing him back, why would Treliving talk to his agent and then Colborne face to face and waste over a month doing that?

People don't realize you can just NOT talk to the player at all, and have him just walk away? You don't HAVE to negotiate with players you don't want on your team.

How do we keep coming back to this circle of the Flames not having any interest in Colborne? Wait.. I get it... Treliving was just using Colborne to practice his negotiation skills for the Monahan and Gaudreau contracts, right? Am I doing this right?
I believe it was for the optics of the whole situation. So they didn't look like the bad guys to Flames fans who liked him and to the other players on the team who were friends with Joe.

The whole thing is Colborne signed for 2.5 million. If the Flames weren't willing to pay him 2.5 million, they obviously didn't think he was worth 2.5 million even after putting up 44 points.

Yet they paid Troy Brouwer 4.5 million. Brouwer has never had 44 points in his career.

Colborne is 26. Brouwer is 31. Why would they decide to pay Brouwer that much if they had Colborne in their plans? The Flames management obviously decided that Colborne wasn't the type of player they wanted going forward and washed their hands of him.

If you think a 26 year old player who had just put up 44 points was something you wanted in your organization don't you think you would pay that player 2.5 million a season?

Hell, they gave Matt Stajan a 4 year extension of 3.125 a year after he had point totals of 31, 18, 23 and 33 points for the Flames in his previous 4 seasons.

They gave Lance Bouma a two year 2.1M AAV for 34 points.

Backlund got a three year contract of 3.575 after putting up seasons of 16, 39, 27 points in the previous 3 years.

They gave UFA Frolik a four year 4.3 mil AAV contract after he had seasons of 42, 42, 10 and 15 points.

So why wouldn't they sign a 26 year old 6'5" 220 lbs. player who just came off of a 44 point season to 2.5 mil if they wanted him on their team going forward?

Because they knew he wasn't worth it and they were correct.
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