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Originally Posted by Bingo
Funny I see Bouma as the biggest screw up.
The Flames under Treliving looked like a rebuild that needed to find good people to fill out the team and get them to the cap floor at the time. Adding Engelland, Hiller and Raymond made sense. They're weren't huge in term or dollars and they fit what they were trying to limp along doing.
Engelland turned out way better than just a locker room guy, Hiller was good for one year. Raymond did a face plant. But they all made sense.
Brouwer was a mistake but it made sense when you think of the lack of RWs and the fact that they wanted to add to the room and experience. If the Flames didn't give him 4 years $18M I'm guessing some other team would have been pretty close.
The Bouma over pay off of a career year was a head scratcher. Made my skin crawl that day. He got "Backlunded"
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IIRC wasn't it an arbitration case?
Nevermind, found it. It followed an arbitration hearing, but rather than wait for the settlement, Treliving signed him to a deal. It was probably to head off a 1 year deal that was more expensive than the $2.2 million Bouma received.
This writer had the deal pegged when it was signed though...
https://thehockeywriters.com/lance-b...gree-to-terms/