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Originally Posted by Bingo
The problem with this debate is the inability to see the future. If Jagr continues to play every season there will be a year where the wheels literally fall off; its inevitable.
If it's this season then the Flames take a gamble and have a contract that hurts them in a season that has some promise.
If the wheels don't come off this season I see a guy that would have been 6th on the Flames in scoring last year, and 5th for forwards. That's a pretty good plug in for a free agent at the end of the summer. Really it's this season's Versteeg.
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What you say is true.
Of course, it was true 6 years ago, and the gamble being made every year has paid off.
The Flames have the cap room. If the wheels do fall off, he won't play much, so it will only cost them a bit of space that may well have gone unused anyway.