Love the wedge being driven between him and Flames. Hell be out if Calgary in 3 years. Exhibit A for how NOT to deal with a good player
Love the wedge being driven between him and Flames. Hell be out if Calgary in 3 years. Exhibit A for how NOT to deal with a good player
Classic HFboards overreaction.
Remember when Yzerman had to trade Drouin for whatever he could.
I hate how Calgary has handled the contract negotiations of our star players for, oh, nearly 30 years.
8 million per would be a bargain but we want the player to accept chump change.
Refresh my memory, when did Drouin finish 6th in scoring.
Well, to be fair the Calgary Flames have managed to get their players to re-sign with the club on team friendly deals for as long as I can remember. Maybe they're just not used to having a player stand up to them.
I'm pretty sure Iginla held out a couple times and didn't take a "hometown discount"
That's why Calgary won't give out contracts like that anymore. We were in cap hell for like 8 years with a ****** team. I'm 100% on Calgary's side with squeezing out every penny
Love the wedge being driven between him and Flames. Hell be out if Calgary in 3 years. Exhibit A for how NOT to deal with a good player
just like when the Flames destroyed their relationship with a 23 year old Iginla, or when the Kings destroyed their relationship with Doughty.
Don't get it? If he's that good, why are flame fans complaining? Why isn't he worth $8M?
These situations aren't really comparable. For one, Iginla was in a different era when the Flames were fighting to survive and they ended up giving him 20-25% of the team's payroll. The risk of the team leaving was high and they legitimately couldn't afford him. They buckled because they had to, losing Iginla would've been the last nail in the coffin. It was also a different CBA that afforded players more leverage, making it MORE likely that they get what they wanted. Not sure why you'd bring him up but Iginla sure didn't seem all that sad to leave at the end. He was probably exhausted after carrying the franchise on his back while management was constantly a decade behind the times, making poor decision after poor decision.
With Doughty, he actually ended up winning, so it's not surprising no bad blood was fostered. Doughty also wasn't an American kid playing in a Canadian city. Like it or not, it's more likely to be a factor than a Canadian kid playing in California.
5 years of RFA remaining.
I would value no winger's RFA years above 6.75M especially not when high scoring centers like Barkov and Scheifele are signing deals with 2-4 UFA years with under the 6.25 million mark. In terms of market value even with his great season his salary for those five RFA years should be around 6.25 to 6.5 million.
Patrick Kane's RFA years were worth 6.3 million back when the salary cap was $59 million.
And now it's sitting at $72 million. That's a 22% increase? So add 22% to Kane's $6.3M and there you go, $7.6M....reasonable but like previous posters have said with Schiefele (true 1C) signing for less than $7M/year, it doesn't look right paying Gaudreau $7.5M+ right now.
I say 1-2 years at 6.5 and then go to arbitration.
And now it's sitting at $72 million. That's a 22% increase? So add 22% to Kane's $6.3M and there you go, $7.6M....reasonable but like previous posters have said with Schiefele (true 1C) signing for less than $7M/year, it doesn't look right paying Gaudreau $7.5M+ right now.
I say 1-2 years at 6.5 and then go to arbitration.
That's why Calgary won't give out contracts like that anymore. We were in cap hell for like 8 years with a ****** team. I'm 100% on Calgary's side with squeezing out every penny
That's why Calgary won't give out contracts like that anymore. We were in cap hell for like 8 years with a ****** team. I'm 100% on Calgary's side with squeezing out every penny
That's why Calgary won't give out contracts like that anymore. We were in cap hell for like 8 years with a ****** team. I'm 100% on Calgary's side with squeezing out every penny
If the Iginla era team was a ****** team what does that make the current version of the Flames?
I don't remember the Flames coming 26th, 28th, 26th when Iggy was around.
If they find themselves in ~cap hell~ it will be their own fault for repeatedly giving out terrible contracts to expendable players. It's not Gaudreau's fault Stajan and Wideman are on the deals they are on... nor is it his fault Brouwer was just signed for 4.5mil per year for the next 4 years, or that Elliott may get an inflated deal despite goalies being easy to find and the Flames having one of the best goalie farms in the league, or that Gio's contract will look ugly toward the end.
The Flames making the difference between paying their best player 6.3mil and 7.5mil through his prime years the hill they want to die on is a great example of the stupid things NHL GMs do. Give out contracts destined to become dead cap space without a care in the world, but God forbid you don't come out of contract negotiations with your best player feeling like you screwed him over.
Every game he sits out I'd lower the AAV.