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Originally Posted by The Cobra
That seems fairly simplistic. How can Tkachuk sign any contract unless the Flames offer him one? And I doubt the Flames make any offer they cannot afford.
But I expect that the Flames will need to adjust what “they are prepared to offer” to get Tkachuk signed.
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Sure, but the situation I was addressing specifically was the event in which the Flames were so negatively affected by Tkachuk's absence on 15 December that they would be forced into offering a lot more than they want to in order to sign him at that juncture. In the first place, I don't foresee this as an especially plausible situation. The Flames are a good team even without Matthew Tkachuk in the lineup. In the second place, because of how the cap-hit is pro-rated for contracts signed mid-season, the Flames will not have the cap room necessary to offer Tkachuk any more than he hopes to sign for today. So, if the Flames find themselves in the unlikely position of desperation to sign Tkachuk in mid-December, chances seem pretty high that he will end up missing the entire season.