So if the arbitrator's award is whatever % over the QO, the team can walk.
If the team agrees to the arbitrator's award, Tkachuk has to take it (or be void of contract I assume and suspended for the year or however those rules work).
If both agree to the arbitrator's deal, then he's a Flame until next summer where he'll be a UFA, and the entire season's really awkward...
OR, they agree to a long term deal and either keep him or trade him eventually.
That about the sum of the circumstances?
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