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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Has a player ever been traded in the 1st year of a long term contract, by the same GM who signed the player to that contract?
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Don't know and don't care. What does history have to do with making Flames better in 2025?
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
It came from Darryl trading Andrew Ference to Boston immediately after he signed a 3-year extension.
It’s why they had so many NMCs at the end of the Iggy era.
So let’s not do that to ourselves for no reason if we don’t have to.
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I'm not going to research the specifics of that deal, or the culture around the team at the time. I doubt that is why there were so many NMCs. That instrument is part of complex negotiations and has its own intrinsic value that agents are obligated to extract for their clients. They were included in the contracts back then in lieu of cash IMO.
CC signed Yegor at the peak of the market. Yegor has not held up his part of that contract. If CC trades him, I don't think other players are going to plan their contracts around what CC did with Yegor. They all have jobs to do. All players know they can be traded any time.