Eastside's Hockey Elite Collide

The Flames wish to sign Ryan Murphy and Tim Erixon to Entry Level Contracts.

Offers extended to Murphy and Erixon.

*Note Murphy's salary needs to bumped to $1,750,000 (+50K) once contract is signed in accordance with slot money.

Daymond Langkow - Arbitration

Taylor Ellington - Numbers please

Ellington: 1.7M (1.75 base + 350k def spec - 400k SH, PL, ST, PE)

Offer Ellington 1M$ / 1yr / T+TO only to qualify and maintain the rights.

Calgary.Flames wrote:Offer Ellington 1M$ / 1yr / T+TO only to qualify and maintain the rights.

Offered qualifying offer. If he accepts, will manually edit file to show RFA status. Players with over 100 Greed cannot accept their qualifying offer. Ellington's is 104.

You already know that Julien, but that's for the others.

Ellington will be a RFA.

Ellington conveniently rejected the offer. So he's a RFA, just like you wanted.

The Flames wish to sign Cameron Darcy to an Entry Level Contract.

Darcy ELC offered.

The Flames wish to sign Joel Mustonen and Gabriel Bourret to Entry Level Contracts.

ELCs offered.

The Flames wish to sign Tomas Hyka, Fredrik Claesson and Nikita Kucherov to Entry Level Contracts.

ELCs offered.

Hyka 600k
Kucherov 850k
Claesson 750k

The Flames wish to sign Brian Hart to an Entry Level Contract.

Hart ELC offered. ($600,000 / 3 years / Two-way)

The Flames wish to sign Sergei Shmelev and Tanner Richard to Entry Level Contracts.

Maxim Lapierre - Arbitration
Garnet Exelby - Arbitration

Tomas Filippi - Numbers please
Jani Hakanpaa - Numbers please

What happens with Taylor Ellington who spent all last season as an RFA on my team?
Can I get him cheaper now? Kind of like we do with UFAs that weren't signed for over a year...

Filippi: 2,887,500
Hakanpaa: 3.85M (3.5M base + 350k def. spec)

By the formula, Ellington would be 1.35M. If we do lower the AHL minimum, I'd imagine it would be lower than that. Not sure I can give you anything other than that. We don't have a rule on RFAs. The NHL rule is that you hold his RFA rights until he's 27 or has 7 years played in the NHL. Ellington's only 24.

Concur on Filippi and Hakanpaa.

Sergei Shmelev => 110 in 2011 = $750,000
Tanner Richard => 170 in 2011 = $600,000

3 years + TO for both guys. They absolutely deserve it.

Calgary.Flames wrote:3 years + TO for both guys. They absolutely deserve it.

ELCs don't have contract options. Just a two-way contract. No team or player options.

Awards have been determined in the Garnet Exelby and Maxim Lapierre arbitrations.

Exelby
Length: 1 + TO
GM proposal: 1.52M; comps: Erskine, McLaren, Allen, White, Commodore
Agent proposal: 2.66M; comps: Hejda, Sauer, Orpik

Calgary playoff hero Garnet Exelby. For his timely goal in Game 7 of the Western Conference Final, he should make 5M for next season, but I can't go over what his agent's request was, so unfortunately for Garnet, he'll be underpaid. Both sides made very compelling cases for Exelby. As Exelby's agent notes, if he were to go to free agency, he'd likely be the top defensive defenseman available.

One of the most important parts about Exelby is his 82 LE. On a very young Calgary team, Exelby and Phaneuf are the only two defensemen above 65 LE. In spite of a 40 PE rating, Exelby had only 34 penalty minutes this season in 84 games. In those 84 games, Exelby combined for 397 hits and takeaways. He's a tremendous role player and his value is clear. The midpoint in this case is 2.09M, which I will round down to 2M. That's a fair price for a guy who brings a lot of defensive value and clearly had a positive impact on the Flames' run to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Julien, you can accept/reject this award.

Lapierre
Length: 2+TO
GM proposal: 2.25M; comps: Latendresse, Stewart, Artyukhin, Kaspar
Agent proposal: 3.25M; comps: Armstrong, Bickell, Gaustad, Artyukhin

The curious case of Maxim Lapierre. Both sides are in agreement that Lapierre deserves a raise from his previous salary of 1.9M. Lapierre lines up very closely with Colby Armstrong, who just received 3.25M in arbitration. Not only do they have very similar attributes, but they also had nearly identical stat lines this season. Lapierre had 154 takeaways and dished out 168 hits, while Armstrong had 147 takeaways and 162 hits. Lapierre played 16 more games than Armstrong. Armstrong has more offensive upside than Lapierre, though, as most of Lapierre's OF comes from his stickhandling, while Armstrong has a 70 SH.

An interesting way to look at this case is to look at what guys like Artyukhin and Gaustad received last offseason. Artyukhin, who both cited as a comp, made 2.5M on the open market. The Buffalo GM walked away from Gaustad's arbitration award of 2.5M and he got 3.5M in FA. So, the going rate for Lapierre should be between 2.5-3.25. There are limitations to Lapierre's game, especially his C eligibility with just a 60 FA rating. Lapierre would have gotten well above both proposals with the formula, so Julien lucks out either way. If Lapierre was a LW/RW, I would have ruled right in the middle at 2.75, but that's a hardship on a GM when putting lines together because he's so bad in the dot, so I think that's worth a $100,000 pity discount and an extra $100,000 discount for a lack of offensive skill.

I award Lapierre 2.55M for the next two years with a team option.

Julien, you can accept/reject this award.

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:

Calgary.Flames wrote:3 years + TO for both guys. They absolutely deserve it.

ELCs don't have contract options. Just a two-way contract. No team or player options.

I was talking about Hakanpaa and Filippi, Adam.

Calgary.Flames wrote:

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:

Calgary.Flames wrote:3 years + TO for both guys. They absolutely deserve it.

ELCs don't have contract options. Just a two-way contract. No team or player options.

I was talking about Hakanpaa and Filippi, Adam.

My bad. It came right after the ELC post, so I wasn't sure.

Are you accepting these, Julien?

Filippi, Shmelev, Richard offered.

Can I wait until after the draft to decide?

Calgary.Flames wrote:Can I wait until after the draft to decide?

As long as you do it before FA starts.

Tomas Filippi has signed a $2,750,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Calgary Flames. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

You can go ahead and offer contracts to Lapierre and Exelby.

Lapierre, Exelby entered.

Offer Taylor Ellington the following contract...

1 350 000$, 1 year, T + TO

Offered.

The Flames wish to sign Ivan Bocharov to an Entry Level Contract.

Offered.

The Flames wish to sign Adam Erne to an Entry Level Contract.

ELC offered. Will be changed to 1.25M once he accepts.

The Flames wish to sign Mason Geertsen to an Entry Level Contract.

Due to a glitch in calculation with Tomas Filippi, his salary has been corrected to $1,912,500. His E5 bonuses exceeded his draft slot and the correction has been made.

Geertsen ELC offered. Will be adjusted to 1.25M.

The Flames wish to sign Justin Bailey and Kenton Helgesen to Entry Level Contracts.

Accidentally went too high on Bailey ELC. Will be adjusted to 1.25.

Helgesen 600k

The Flames wish to sign Justin Auger, Josh Morrissey and Matt Buckles to Entry Level Contracts.

ELCs offered.

Will have to adjust Morrissey from 1.3M to his 1.25M slot once he signs.

UFA
Rostislav Klesla: 3,200,000 / 7 years
Brian Boyle: 2,900,000 / 7 years
Andrej Meszaros: 3,850,000 / 3 years
Dan Hamhuis: Right's ARB.
Jared Boll: Right's ARB.
Anton Strålman: Free Agency
David Rodman: Free Agency
Rick DiPietro: Free Agency
Cody Bass: Free Agency

RFA
Yaroslav Alshevsky: 1,450,000 / 7 years
Billy Arnold: 650,000 / 4 years
Charlie Coyle: 612,500 / 4 years
Quinton Howden: 400,000 / 4 years

UFA
*Kurt Sauer: Right's ARB.

*Pending trade approval

Hamhuis: 7 years
Boll: 4 years
Sauer: 1 year

Rostislav Klesla (UFA1) - 3,200,000
Brian Boyle (UFA2) - $2,900,000
Andrej Meszaros (UFA3) - $3,850,000

Yaroslav Alshevsky - $1,450,000
Billy Arnold - $650,000
Charlie Coyle - $612,500
Quinton Howden - $400,000

I've decided I was going to use Kurt Sauer's TO.