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Originally Posted by jayswin
I think you misread my post a bit. I wasn't suggesting he's going to play out the full season and then ask for more money from the Flames. I mentioned the 2 month (just a guess based on him saying he wanted to feel things out to start the season before putting pen to paper) period where he comes out on fire and pushes his points per game as high as he can and then around December he can point to his PPG pace instead of last years 64 points and say "sign me for $9mil rather than $8.5 taking into account how I'm playing now that Sutter and his shot volume, perimeter system are gone".
If he lit it up for a couple of months and got an extra $250-$500k/yr on his contract, that's $4-$8mil over the contract.
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Classic Roman Turek move.