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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Who cares if it’s 9 or 8
That million makes no difference per season long term
It’s having the elite talent that matters
It’s why every other team is locking up their younger players long term
Sure you will occasionally get burned /overpay
But you can not win without the elite talent potential these players have
Unless you want to overpay UFAs which the Flames love to do
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It's always easy to say that in hindaight and in the end Two sides have to want to make a deal.
I doubt people would have been happy with $9M x 8 after he put up 61 points in 69 games in 19-20 and 43 points in 56 games in 20-21.
And even then if he really wanted to be here he likely had 8 x $10.5M on the table in the offseason and decided he wanted to leave.
I still think he didnt want to be here long term, and anything he said in the media was lip service. And in the end he proved that, he wanted to be gone ASAP and that's what he did.