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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I’m good with Mackey needing to earn his spot, that is not my question. If he hasn’t earned his spot yet, why give him a one way contract?
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Mackey knows that most of the teams in the league were interested in him as a free agent. He chose the Flames partly because he expected them to treat him well, and he has a bit of leverage to back it up. I suspect he would have refused to sign a two-way deal. If the Flames hadn't offered one, he could have done a Giordano, gone to the KHL for a year, and if necessary, forced a trade to a team that would give him a one-way contract.