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Originally Posted by Jay Random
And he really has no incentive to sign a deal until the last minute.
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Yup.
Flames don't have any incentive to increase their offer yet - they are the only team that can offer 8 years and as of right now that's their leverage.
Gaudreau has no incentive to provide a new offer on his side - time is his only leverage up until July 13th (especially if he wants to stay and wants the 8th year)
I think it's pretty safe for Gaudreau's camp to assume they aren't going to go spend the money somewhere else in a trade before then - so don't have to worry about that.
So really there isn't incentive for either party to budge until closer to July 10th when negotiations will probably pick up and we will start hearing rumors about free agency (similar to Landeskog last year).
Also if the rumor that Gaudreau asked for another puck carrrier / help is true them maybe he's waiting to see if the Flames do something at the draft. Realistically both Mangiapane and Tkachuk could be in play for the Flames at the draft.