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Originally Posted by butterfly
I don’t. And I don’t think Hanifin does either. He won’t accept 2x$8M which I’d be fine with since he’d still have value at the end of it. They want to be paid for their decline years which I don’t want any part of.
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lol if Hanifin didn’t think he was a top pairing guy then he would have jumped all over the initial Flames number. We just disagree, it’s like the ECHL goalie thing, I think you are underestimating how hard it is to find quality NHL players and that is basically impossible to have an ever flowing pipeline of top line/top pairing guys.
Continually turning over every guy who isn’t Bedard at 27 would have a team stuck in the bottom tier of the league continually.
I think the Flames need to focus on drafting/trades, committing to the guys who earn it, and staying away from the UFA market. I’ll take signing Hanifin to 8 years than ever having to watch a guy like Brouwer or Neal again.