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Originally Posted by stemit14
Couldn’t a conversation like this happen if the flames aren’t in the room:
New team GM: “We really want you on the team and you’ve made it clear you want to be on our team too… but the price the flames want for us to get you under a signed extension is really high and it would mean giving up assets that could help us and you win a cup this year or in the next few years. If we both agree that we’ll sign the extension a few months/weeks from now, we can just tell the flames that you don’t really want to sign an extension with us. That way we can just pay the rental price for you instead of the ‘extension in place” price.”
Player: “Well, you’re the team I really want to be on and I want to win cups with you so I guess we can do that.”
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A team could do this, but they never would (Bumonton not withstanding) because they would get blackballed. You have to play nice in the sandbox if you want to continue to get invited to play in the sandbox.