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Originally Posted by fleury
If he wants more than $9.5M I think the Flames should walk, personally. Half those names on that list aren’t worth that either. Johnny isn’t a franchise player to lead a team to the cup. He’s a first line star for sure but he’s very much a secondary guy like Marner. He’s well within his right to seek out his max value but the Flames have been trapped with bad contracts since time. Overpaying for him wouldn’t be good.
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Gaudreau and Marner aren’t secondary players in anyway. They are foundational players.
Paying market value for franchise players is a good thing. You don’t walk away over a million bucks. The guy just had the most even strength points in an nhl season in nearly 30 years.
You hurt your team by overpaying bottom six players in free agency.
Gaudreau is a frickin unicorn in the NHL. You do whatever you can to keep him