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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Remember, by signing with Calgary, he ate into one year of his ELC contract already, which brought him one year closer to his second contract. If he took the UFA route out of college, his ELC would have been 3 years. It arguably made him an extra $5M or so. It's what a number of US college players do.
UFA for college players gives the player the right to choose their destination, but it doesn't mean more money. Signing with the team that drafted you early does bring more money.
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That's not the point. The point is that numerous posters on CP were convinced that he would never sign in Calgary and the Flames would lose him for nothing. The reasons they gave then were exactly the same as the reasons they give now that he will never re-sign in Calgary and the Flames will lose him for nothing. If they're right now, they should have been right then.