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Originally Posted by AC
No kidding. Basically all of the evidence points to Calgary being extremely undesirable. Players don't want to get traded here for the most part, and top free agents don't want to sign here.
Our leverage with Markstrom was having Lindholm here and obviously a guaranteed #1 role long term.
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and we flat out out-bid other teams, paying a premium.
This is why the draft is so damn important for this organization. Free agency is a costly, and risky endeavour - more so here than in other cities because of that premium.
I just don’t see free agency as a worthwhile avenue for this team. Whatever small moves do pay off (...like paying an effective 4th line centre 3.125M per season) have been outweighed by the bad deals (Neal, Brouwer).