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Originally Posted by dissentowner
His wife used to work in Philly, she works in Calgary now. More reason for him to stay. So how come Coleman signed here? Surely he should have signed with Dallas. MacKinnon won't re-sign with the Avs right? He obviously is heading to Montreal, close to home. One player has ever bolted as a UFA to play near home, one. Then there are some Flame fans that will come up with any excuse to speculate a player wants to leave.
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There are 29.4 million reasons Coleman came here. He had career earnings of like $7M and coming off 2 Stanley Cups it was a no-brainer for him to chase the cash.
DAL is also a fairly isolated NHL city. Some of the Central Division teams might have been a bit closer, but it seems unlikely that DAL or COL or STL or NAS or CHI or MIN would have matched CGY's offer. At which point CGY isn't much different than anywhere else.
STL signed Saad for 5x4.5M. Saad is 1 yr younger with a longer track record and if anything slightly better stats. Would STL have given Coleman an extra year of term + $400k AAV ?
NAS re-signed Granlund for 4x5M. Known quantity to them who can play C. Same age player, 2 years less term.
CHI got a 2nd to take on the last 3 years of Tyler Johnson.