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McG · 07-12-2022, 07:13 AM

The two risks have always been here:

1) pay with a year left on contract
2) pay with a day left on contract.

Teams gamble on 1) so that they don’t get to 2). The first risk is the Nurse situation in greaserville where that contract looks off market (and it did at the time too). For JG, Flames probably could have signed him last summer by overpayment at that time which would have been less than now. The second risk is a therefore a career season with the possibility of losing the player.

I don’t think that the flames asset manage very well.

07-12-2022, 07:13 AM	#7386
McG Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Elbows Up!! Exp:	The two risks have always been here: 1) pay with a year left on contract 2) pay with a day left on contract. Teams gamble on 1) so that they don’t get to 2). The first risk is the Nurse situation in greaserville where that contract looks off market (and it did at the time too). For JG, Flames probably could have signed him last summer by overpayment at that time which would have been less than now. The second risk is a therefore a career season with the possibility of losing the player. I don’t think that the flames asset manage very well. __________________ Franchise > Team > Player Future historians will celebrate June 24, 2024 as the date when the timeline corrected itself.