[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Et tu, Cicero? Untrue, but this is a fallacy.



Sticking to your value is only useful if there's a broad market, and will eventually result in you coming down, at least a bit, to meet whatever the top bid ultimately is.

If the flames assigned a higher value to him than any other team in the league, well that's bad negotiating. They missed the opportunity to maximize his value, and the value from now is only likely to decline. This is because of his remaining contract length and the diminishing value of contract retention (also because he played horribly in the last 6 months of the season, but asides from that.)

You are describing a problem with our management. We waited too long because we had an inflated sense of value.

Exactly how do you know this?