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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
At the very least, the owners still need a watchable product unless they are looking to relocate the team. Are any of you willing to pay to watch the equivalent of our opposition from last night? Do we really think that having a team as bad as the sharks is the only path to a stanley cup?
If he is willing to sign for 4 years, you do it.
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Part of the reason the Sharks are bad is because they were handcuffed by some extremely bad long term contracts. Flames have two bad ones in Huberdeau, Kadri and just dodged a bullet with Lindholm suprning their offers. No need to sign a guy like Kuzmenko to 4 years as he's not a building block and you never know when you will need cap space. The guy has been with the Flames for a few months and it's kind of humorous to see how many fans are just fine with locking him up long term based on such a small sample size. That's how teams get in trouble IMO. I'm pretty confident the Flames braintrust will want to see him play out into next season before making any judgements on what to do with him.