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Originally Posted by Bingo
Says you.
I was discussing the likelihood of an offer sheet, and nothing more.
You can't say other teams would want to have him and would make the moves necessary but then say the Flames wouldn't or couldn't do the same, can you?
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Says me? I don’t even understand what that means. I don’t agree that the Flames can negotiate off the basis that they can’t afford him. Again if they truly could only afford to pay him below $7 million in a 1 year deal, then yes they run the high risk of losing him to an offer sheet. But as you pointed out, this isn’t true.
The negotiation comes down to what the Flames are willing to pay him, and what they are willing to do to clear the cap room necessary.
And if they have painted themselves into a corner because the moves available to clear the space are no longer there, well that’s on the GM. If they were to take that position during negotiations at this point, that wouldn’t be a team I’d want to play for.