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Originally Posted by ricardodw
You are saying that the Flames will not qualify Tkachuk for the 9M that his contract set as the minimum?
He would get close to the league max as a 24 year old UFA based on the mediocre year he had as the clear cut best Flames player over the last year.
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If they get the contract done during the final year of his current deal they don't have to qualify him. They only have to qualify him if they are letting the current deal expire.
And no, Matthew Tkachuk is not getting league max. That's on a new level of stupidity, even from you. No one pays the 34th best scorer in the league the max salary possible. Unless he becomes a 100 point player in each of the next two seasons, and scores 40 goals a season, he's not going to get a sniff over $8M. With the flattening of hockey revenues - which will actually act as a major drop in hockey revenues - salaries are going to flatten out dramatically. Salary escalation is going to be on hold for the next four or five years until all the uncertainty goes away, and fans start coming back and spending again.