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Originally Posted by Toonage
I don't think its insulting at all.
He just made $5M for playing a few months. Thats a cold way to look at it, and I'm sure the Flames don't, but I think its entirely reasonable to go short term and for less dollars as a show of good faith. And as I mentioned, he needs to play a year with as little stress hanging over him as possible. Another big ticket, long term deal may not be what he needs.
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A way of protecting the Flames would to have games played bonuses. He can still get paid, but needs to play. Win - Win in my mind
Edit: Say 2M/yr plus bonuses for games played as a framework. Each year could have a larger bonus (1st year $500K for 70 games, 2nd year $1M for 70 games, 3rd year $1.5 for 70 games and so on for the length. Year 8 would be $2M bases and $4M in bonuses. AAV would be $4M)