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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
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.
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Disagree ...
Given the team's core locked down and the window they are trying to establish and prolong, a mistake on Bennett's contract could cost the team Backlund.
A one year deal and a 50 point + season and they lose control.
I think this is a very hard deal to negotiate because the Flames are insisting on a three year term, and Bennett's group doesn't want that because his numbers have him south of 3M per for that term.
Becomes a line in the sand that Treliving doesn't want to cross.