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Originally Posted by Robbob
Let's be honest. that 8.5M only looks okay in hindsight. He was coming off a season 49 points in 56 games (prorated would be 71 points) where the Flames missed the playoffs. I think a lot of people probably would not have been happy that summer if he signed.
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Tage Thompson as an RFA scored 68 points in 78 games and was given 7 year, $50M deal - and people on here thought they were drunk.
No, they're projecting their players. Minor risk, massive reward. If you can't correctly project the players you are/you have built your team around, you're a bad organization.