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<blockquote data-quote="Mark_ab" data-source="post: 2706497" data-attributes="member: 541433"><p>We&#039;re out of the playoffs, that much is all but certain. The simple answer is money; he just wants too much. He was asking for a 5 year contract at 5.75 million per year. If we signed him we&#039;d have to drop our second leading scorer(tied) in Sykora, with no money left over for UFA&#039;s to come. Smyth is a UFA at the end of the year. If they didn&#039;t come to a deal before the deadline then he could walk at year end and we&#039;d have nothing. This way we get two prospects (two 15ths overall, one in &#039;03 and one in &#039;05) and a first round pick for something that would probably have left us holding our dicks on July 1st (just like Doug Weight and Curtis Joseph in times past). And we also have money left over from the cap increase, and no Smyth contract to buy for UFA&#039;s like Souray, Fisher, Hannan, hell, even Blake from the isle, although he&#039;s not a D-man. People wouldn&#039;t ***** if we got Souray in the off season. He&#039;s got more points than Smyth, and he&#039;s what we need more than another forward. We still have a lot of depth on the team, the problem we&#039;re having boils down to coaching style. Edmontonians should hire me, but I don&#039;t think that&#039;ll happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Mark_ab, post: 2706497, member: 541433"] We're out of the playoffs, that much is all but certain. The simple answer is money; he just wants too much. He was asking for a 5 year contract at 5.75 million per year. If we signed him we'd have to drop our second leading scorer(tied) in Sykora, with no money left over for UFA's to come. Smyth is a UFA at the end of the year. If they didn't come to a deal before the deadline then he could walk at year end and we'd have nothing. This way we get two prospects (two 15ths overall, one in '03 and one in '05) and a first round pick for something that would probably have left us holding our dicks on July 1st (just like Doug Weight and Curtis Joseph in times past). And we also have money left over from the cap increase, and no Smyth contract to buy for UFA's like Souray, Fisher, Hannan, hell, even Blake from the isle, although he's not a D-man. People wouldn't ***** if we got Souray in the off season. He's got more points than Smyth, and he's what we need more than another forward. We still have a lot of depth on the team, the problem we're having boils down to coaching style. Edmontonians should hire me, but I don't think that'll happen. [/QUOTE]

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