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Originally Posted by Icon
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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Team cannot walk when they initiate the arbitration, only if the player initiates the arbitration. Other than that it looks correct (not that the Flames would walk even if Tkachuk had initiated the arbitration)