He has definitely been miss handled by the Flames (nothing unusual) prior to this season he had played 80 NHL games and I do not remember any great criticism of him at the time. Surprise young D men make mistakes. Last year the flames had him sat on side lines and not playing (clearly they had all but given up on him, because you do not develop sitting watching games) and they also waived him recently. Thank goodness he has stuck around because we are now seeing what he is made of, this very nearly became another Marty St lewis. If I was him I would be looking for a very good pay rise to take me to UFA and then I would see what others were prepared to pay me.
Going to be a very interesting few years with a lot of players due to be payed significant amounts as their contracts come to an end. Who is going to be off because the team cannot afford all of them.
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