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Originally Posted by chedder
I don't buy it. He (and his agent) simply miscalculated his worth as a player. Calgary moved on and replaced him and he took the deal he could so he wouldn't be back in Europe making $75,000.
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I am not even sure I buy that. Kylington’s agent is one of the most dialed in and would have had a good grasp of the market before free agency even hit. I don’t think they miscalculated the entire market, but they miscalculated Conroy and the Flames specifically and were probably caught off guard at how quickly the door shut and the Flames pivoted.
They probably thought with how the Flames had terrible luck with free agents lately, pending or otherwise, and all the talk about not walking players to free agency, that the Flames would quickly cave. I doubt they would have tried what they did with almost any other team in the league. They probably looked at the sunk costs the Flames endured with Kylington already, the relatively high dollar amount on the table, the optics of losing a free agent for nothing, the amount of cap space available, and thought Conroy would be desperate and pushed around. Good for Conroy for not entertaining it.