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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
This whole notion of demands being met is odd. There’s a fluid marketplace for NHL players, just like there is for anything else. And as my old economics teacher explained, the only way we have to determine the value of something is how much someone is willing to actually pay for it. A number you have in your head of the valuation of a player (or an exercise bike, or a hockey card, or a car) is just an imaginary number.
If the price the Flames set for a player isn’t met by the market, it’s because the valuation the Flames place on him is too high. That’s just basic economics. And if you’d rather hang on to something rather than sell it for market price, then you aren’t a motivated seller in the first place.
Which is likely the case when it comes to Kadri and Coleman - the Flames seem happy to keep them. A lot of fans aren’t happy at that prospect, because they don’t value the 6 or 7 more wins over the next couples seasons that those players will provide as much as Flames braintrust seems to value it.
I suspect another reason for the reluctance to sell is Edwards and Maloney are extremely anxious about Calgary’s status as a small-market franchise, and they’re worried that if they trade away veterans who chose to sign here as UFAs that the Flames will be an even less attractive destination in the future.
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I think this is a huge factor and can be linked directly to how this organization has gone about its business for at least the last two decades.
Rightly or wrongly, I think there’s real concern about what the long term impacts of a prolonged rebuild would mean for this team. I would hope the new arena would mitigate that somewhat and now is the time to rebuild, if there ever was one.