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Originally Posted by bizaro86
He will be good value now and poor value later. If he was willing to sign for 3 years he'd get way more than that on the open market. The discount now is paid back on the overpayment later.
This is probably win-win. Backing gets guaranteed career earnings, and the flames borrow cap space from he future when they're in win-now mode.
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Really how many teams were going to line up to give him a six year deal considerably higher than the Flames after the season he's had to date? I feel the Flames were competing against themselves here as I just don't see other teams valuing Backlund this high.