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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I don't get why people continue to say this. If anything, Bennett's contract is one of the more complicated precisely because his value is so difficult to nail down. More than likely one of the two sides will be disappointed with the outcome of this contract upon its completion—either the Flames will feel they paid too much or they will be frustrated that Bennett's next deal will be too expensive, or Bennett's camp will feel as though they left too much money on the table when all is said and done.
There is nothing terrible "easy" about this situation.
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This is why short term contracts exist. The Monahan and Gaudreau contracts were significantly more complex because the term of the deal was such a variable and the $ amounts involved were so much larger.
I can't possibly believe either side is looking long term here and unless one side is being totally unreasonable, they can't be more than a few $100K apart.
The other deals I mentioned were $40 million deals with tremendous risk to the organization. This is nothing like that.
So I don't see the complexity here.