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SuperMatt18 · 08-01-2019, 02:09 PM

Yeah I know some people on here still don't fully believe the value of advanced stats but a lot of the guys that believe in those numbers (CHL, Kent Wilson, etc) hated both this contract and the Brouwer contract from the minute they were signed.

And they were right.

And it's not that Stone was useless (I actually would have preferred just eating the last deal of this contract if they could have found cap space somewhere else) it's just that he was paid $1.0 - $1.5M too much which is the norm for UFAs) on a contract that was 1 year too long (the bigger issue with this deal IMO), and now it came back to bite the Flames.

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SuperMatt18 Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Calgary, AB Exp:	Yeah I know some people on here still don't fully believe the value of advanced stats but a lot of the guys that believe in those numbers (CHL, Kent Wilson, etc) hated both this contract and the Brouwer contract from the minute they were signed. And they were right. And it's not that Stone was useless (I actually would have preferred just eating the last deal of this contract if they could have found cap space somewhere else) it's just that he was paid $1.0 - $1.5M too much which is the norm for UFAs) on a contract that was 1 year too long (the bigger issue with this deal IMO), and now it came back to bite the Flames. Last edited by SuperMatt18; 08-01-2019 at 02:12 PM.