Flames sign Lance Bouma - 1 Year Contract ($775k)

[AcGold]

Originally Posted by Jacks

And to a lesser extent Engelland, Smid and maybe Wolf.

Next year against Van we should start the game with
Wolf/Bollig/Gratz
Engelland/Smid

That would be a great game to watch. Last year was probably the most fun I've had watching the Flames since 04, the Vancouver game will go down in infamy.

Hopefully Wolf can crack the lineup. That's a scary lineup, back to the black and blue Flames.

[Drury18]

Originally Posted by T@T

Fairly certain it's $775k

CapGeek is now confirming it is a 1 year, 1 way deal for $775,000.

He is now the 4th lowest paid guy on the regular roster. Byron, McGrattan, Setoguchi are the only guys that will make less this year.

A good chunk of the AHL guys would also make more then him if they were called up and stayed in the NHL. This includes guys like Hanowski, Knight, Van Brabant and Jooris.

[skudr248]

775 for bouma? Steal!

[bubbsy]

curious if this is indeed his bridge deal, and he'll be looking for a komarov type deal on his ufa contract.

[heep223]

Aren't bridge deals usually for top 6/top 4 players? 2-3 years at moderate dollar amounts before a potentially huge contract?

Meant to quote post above ^

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by heep223

Aren't bridge deals usually for top 6/top 4 players? 2-3 years at moderate dollar amounts before a potentially huge contract?

Usually. I tend to define bridge contracts as the RFA contract you get before you get the deal that extends into your free agency eligible years... hence the "bridge" in that it's the deal in between the two parts of your career. I suppose you could consider it a bridge contract.

ELC Years -> Bridge Years -> UFA Years

Although I tend to think of bridge contracts as being more then 1 year deals personally since I believe their purpose is to get a guy you think will be good but aren't sure they'll be good locked up on the cheap for a few years that way if they break out the first year of the bridge you get them at a reduced rate for an extra season while simple one year extensions seem more like a get it over with kick the can down the road type of deal.

[squiggs96]

Originally Posted by Alanis_Morissette

It is amazing that regular posters here understand so little about the make up of hockey teams.

Sure is.