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Originally Posted by Bingo
It's a team sport ... he gets a share of the blame for less playoff games, but no one player should see that as a focus. Plus he was hurt and missed 11 games in 2015.
But that aside ... you said Giordano was overpaid. I argued that's not really the case.
I'm not saying you have to protect him, though I do think they should get a handle on;
a) what he will be worth at the deadline next year in a flat cap world
b) the % chance that the Flames will be sellers on that day
If the answers are a 1st, and likely then maybe they should look into protecting him and risk Tanev who's contract extends further. Or maybe Seattle would be happy to take say a 3rd for not taking him because they don't want to take him anyway.
But if the answers to either a) and b) are not much, and doubtful then you may as well expose him and see where it goes.
I want change and this could certainly be some of what we're going to see, but I don't see any point in disparaging a player down to overpaid or garbage when that just isn't the case.
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Never said garbage.. right now overpaid by around 2M ... Tanev getting 4 M and Gio is not way better than Tanev. Gio will not be signing anywhere in 22-23 for more than 2M and likely a lot closer to the $700-50k that Thornton Spezza and Perry signed for