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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
No you are right, they could go to arbitration and sign a one year deal and subsequently trade him. It does eliminate the nightmare scenario of someone signing him to an offer sheet and they can’t trade him if they match (and are left just with draft picks). But a I suspect if it goes to arbitration they pay more than 9 million, which they may be fine with because they have a tonne of cap space and want to protect against the offer sheet.
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Makes sense. I don't think the offer sheet scenario was actually a bad one for the Flames. If Chucky is hell bent on not playing here, he'd never sign one, because he knows that puts control back in Calgary's court on matching. Sure he could demand a trade, but that's a terrible path for both parties, so he'd never do that IMO unless he was ok with Calgary matching and staying here.