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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
But why jump up and pay the $9.5M just to meet some false deadline that you made up.
If you think it will get done, and you think you can get it done for less than his current $9.5M ask, and discussions are going well, then why make up a fake deadline.
I'd prefer to trade him and get 2023 picks too...but moving past that date doesn't mean you can't trade him still. I actually don't see a lot of teams that are a fit with a 1st round 2023 pick I'd want for Lindholm anyways.
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It's not a false deadline. The Flames didn't set a deadline on Johnny, and always believed it would get done. If the terms on the extension are within reach, then don't give up after an hour and sit on the porch like a goon and wait.
Conroy has to think...he's a General Manager, he's got a responsibility - if you have a #1 centre, you don't try and sign an extension for a few days and call it quits (by delaying) - you get your ass back out there and you sign that !@#$ing extension.
...or you trade him at the safer of the two pinch points in the trade market, the NHL draft.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
You are assuming that Conroy hasn't set an internal deadline. I suspect that he has, but that it is different from yours.
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There are largely two trading seasons in the NHL, I think he should make use of the first one available if there's no extension.