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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
At any rate, he sounded disappointed that he was only offered a bridge deal. Anything 6-8 years as Tkachuk was quoted as wanting at the time would have been better, for both the team and the relationship with the player, than a bridge deal with a poison pill QO at the end. You have a 22 year old top 6 drafted player with 3 years in the league already coming off of a PPG season, those are exactly the kind of players that you give them what they want.
What other teams did with other players that season has no bearing on what the Flames should have done.
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This is not true at all. That is why so many player signed so late.
Someone was waiting for the market to set itself so the RFA would start signing. It was quiet for a long time.
What other teams do plays a huge factor into these deals, that's how you have comparisons.
DO you forget Dustin Penner and the Oilers nuking the 2nd contract?
And no he was never signing for 6, 7 or 8 years. Maybe if we offered him a ridiculous sum of money making him the highest paid player in the league.
When he is talking about a 5 year deal, he is already planning his next move.
Auston Matthew is doing the same thing in Toronto.