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Originally Posted by Bingo
Why do you phrase things as if the Flames never even though of the same notion? The agent wanted more money than they were willing to parcel out for that term, so they went shorter.
They likely had 2,3,4,5,6 and 7 year deals on the table being talked about back and forth.
I'd like 7 years at $4M please! May have been waiting a long time to get it though.
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Who said anything about 7 years and $4M AAV? You're spinning for reasons unexplained.
The GM has a tendency to sacrifice long term deals with RFA players for cap reasons and this is again (see Tkachuk) another player that should not have been put in that bin. There was also a clear indication that the player was very willing to go long term - no reason to fear monger as you are doing that this would have added millions to the AAV to add a 4th or 5th year.
Mangiapane is a player you go for term with at this point every day of the week.