Awesome! Glad to hear Mangiapane is back. Hopefully, he puts in the work and helps to solidify the third line this season. It'd be a huge boon for the Flames if he became kind of like what Andreas Johnsson was for the Leafs last season.
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This makes me really wonder what the sticking point was from Mangiapane's camp.
It couldn't have been the 1 way - there is a very good chance he would get claimed off of waivers, and be playing somewhere else in the NHL.
It was either the dollars or the term. Perhaps the Flames wanted a 2-3 year? If so, then this was a successful holdout on his behalf. If it was dollars, then this was a waste of time for him. I wonder what we will see.
Just hope Mangiapane comes back to the team with a positive outlook. Afterall, when life gives you breadcrumbs, you make croutons out of them!
It was either the dollars or the term. Perhaps the Flames wanted a 2-3 year? If so, then this was a successful holdout on his behalf. If it was dollars, then this was a waste of time for him. I wonder what we will see.
The thing is that if this was his qualifying offer, he could have signed this at any point over the last two months. It was the money issue most likely. And he had absolutely no leverage.
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Good. Tre won't be pushed around. Not that Eat Bread had any leverage anyway so I'm surprised it went this way. Do like having our GM not be bullied though.
Bad move to hold out this long for the same offer you got initially. Hopefully lights even more of a fire under his ass, and he brings it this season to justify a big pay raise.
Alan Quine and Dillon Dube are both making more; at least if all are in the NHL next year.
Might be why Mangiapane could be ok with making less. If there's a cap crunch, he's the guy who they can afford to keep up (and he's better than Quine anyway)
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