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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am already on record with how stupidly myopic I believe this approach to be, but I am really interested to know from those who are already writing obituaries about Treliving's inability to re-sign his pending UFAs...
Specifically, what does this look like, in your estimation? Say Weegar is unsigned and the team does decide to move him before the TD. What is a realistic return? How does it make the team better sans Weegar? How does it affect their performance and on-ice results this season?
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I'm not really sure what you're asking as I'm not advocating Weegar is traded now or at any point. You have to sign him in the next 2 weeks. Full stop. If you don't, he's gone after the season because you're not moving him as a key piece of a team that will be at worst fighting for a playoff spot and at best, locking down the division again.
Things are only going to get worse contractually in the instance where he's not signed before the season. I would even argue that paying him $7.5M/8years isn't even a loss for the Flames with where the league economics are more than likely headed. I don't imagine Treliving is going down that road again and will likely save his best offer for closer to the end of camp, but whatever that is, it needs to be good enough to get pen to paper.