[Signing] Blues sign Patrick Maroon (1 yr, $1.75 mil)

[GreenLantern2814]

Maroon @ 1/1.75 is a very good signing for St Louis.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

1st line, 3rd line, whatever. That’s a pretty sweet deal for the Blues.

[Canada 02]

my two teams are killing it this summer

[Toonage]

Flames were in on him July 1st. I kind of thought at that price they might circle back and offer him term. In hindsight, I expect the real benefit of his agency change will come with an extension in January.

[stang]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Changes agents, gets same deal??

https://twitter.com/user/status/1016737307485986823

Maybe agent one wouldn't help him sign that deal

[Toonage]

Stang: As in the agent said "I can't let you do this, thats too low?"

Maybe. I never thought of it from that angle! That Maroon maybe insisted.

[stang]

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe a possibility.

Agent says no theres way better deals

Maroon says no I'll take this to be at home.

[mikephoen]

One year, 1.75M?

What a maroon.

[PugnaciousIntern]

Yeah, agents get a cut of the contract, so perhaps his agent pushed it too far and insisted he go for the better contracts.

Regardless, tough to blame a guy for family loyalty. Especially making over a million dollars.

[Buff]

Maybe his previous agent lost him that deal by trying to get him a better deal somewhere else and maybe even trying to leverage those for a better deal with St. Louis?

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Flames were in on him July 1st. I kind of thought at that price they might circle back and offer him term. In hindsight, I expect the real benefit of his agency change will come with an extension in January.

I have a feeling that no way in heck he'd have signed that low for ANY other team. no way calgary could have got him for that

[stang]

Reading its official?