This is a tough one, it is hard to decide if I hate it or not as we do not know what teams would offer for a player like Lindholm. Lindholm is not a 9 million player, he is more in a 7.5-8 million range and overpaying by 1-1.5 million is not that terrible. He would most likely get 8.5 next year with the cap going up quite a bit.
I think Lindholm is not a 1C that can carry the team to the cup, he needs other star players to play with him and it does not seem like he likes playing with our highest paid player. Flames are banking on the hope that Lindy will go back to being as effective as he was with Jonny or Tkachuk. Worst case Lindholm is a 60 point center, but that is not someone you want to be paying 9 million until he is 37.
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