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Originally Posted by dissentowner
I don't know how anyone can talk themselves into thinking they know how this process is going. We can speculate until Sutter's cows come home but we don't know anything. They could be far apart, they could be close. The only thing we know is that the player indicates he wants to stay, the team has said they are in current negotiations with the players agent, and that the optimal time to trade him has passed by. To me those signs indicate it is likely the player and the team have intent to get a deal done in Calgary, but that is my speculation.
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Players always insist they want to stay when contracts are coming up, so I don't put any weight on that. Also, you can still speculate easily what is more likely, and in this case (without hating the Flames or being pessimistic or whatever people are claiming these days) it appears more likely that the player will test free agency.
I don't understand the butthurt about predicting that, I mean just look at it from the players perspective for a couple of minutes instead of from a Flames fan's perceptive.
What is the incentive to sign a deal late in this season with the Flames vs waiting a couple months and seeing what the entire league has to offer. Of course that should be the frontrunner if you were putting money on it.
