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Originally Posted by Toonage
Not looking great for a Lindholm extension which means things could get very interesting as the season progresses.
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Maybe this is way to simple of a thought. But I wonder, much to the fans disappointment, if we kind of need to accept that we might be simply at the beginning of the negotiations with Lindholm, not closer to the end. And maybe the $10M number is more like the players first (and too high) offer, not his final offer as I think many of us feel like it would be.
Where I'm going, is we all are sort of assuming that if he was willing to come back, it was about does he want to be here, but the money thing was mostly sorted. We've also heard there wasn't much talk in the offseason. Perhaps the flow on this one is, no one really got serious about money and the other details of the contract until Lindholm had even made up his mind on if he'd consider staying, and that wasn't going to happen until he got to camp, and started to get a feel for the new culture and team direction.
Maybe now he has, both he and the Flames can start to seriously talk about contract details. Maybe now for the first time since end of last year, he's signaled I might be willing to stay, and really the negotiations then are just begining?
Not sure if that makes sense, but I think it's a real possibility. 0 point negotiating the price on a car if you are not even sure you want to buy that type of car in the first place type of thing. Once you've decided you'd buy it, you start working on price.