Quick Flames Contract Rundown
By Ryan Pike
10 years agoThe Flames have added two contracts of late, inking Kenny Agostino and Brett Kulak this week. This leads to some questions about how many bodies they have under contract for the coming 2014-15 season.
Here’s a quick and dirty contract primer for y’all. Two way deals are noted with a double asterisk (**).
GOALIES (1)
- Karri Ramo – $2.75m
- RFAs: Joni Ortio, Olivier Roy
- UFAs: Joey MacDonald
DEFENDERS (10 + 1 slide)
- Dennis Wideman: $5.25m
- Mark Giordano: $4.02m
- Ladislav Smid: $3.5m
- Kris Russell: $2.6m
- T.J. Brodie: $2.125m
- Shane O’Brien: $2m
- Tyler Wotherspoon: $925k**
- Patrick Sieoff: $925k**
- John Ramage: $900k**
- Brett Kulak: $817k**
- Keegan Kanzig: $693k** (in potential slide year)
- RFAs: Chad Billins, Mark Cundari, James Martin
- UFAs: Chris Butler, Derek Smith, Chris Breen
FORWARDS (15 + 2 slides)
- Jiri Hudler: $4m
- David Jones: $4m
- Corban Knight: $3.75m**
- Matt Stajan: $3.125m
- Curtis Glencross: $2.55m
- Sean Monahan: $1.775m**
- Mikael Backlund: $1.5m
- Sven Baertschi: $1.425m**
- Markus Granlund: $925k**
- Josh Jooris: $925k**
- Morgan Klimchuk: $925k** (in potential slide year)
- Emile Poirier: $925k** (in potential slide year)
- Kenny Agostino: $900k**
- Max Reinhart: $878k**
- Michael Ferland: $798k**
- Brian McGrattan: $750k
- Turner Elson: $565k**
- RFAs: T.J. Galiardi, Ben Hanowski, Paul Byron, Lance Bouma, Joe Colborne, David Eddy
- UFAs: Mike Cammalleri, Kevin Westgarth, Blair Jones, Ben Street
In terms of contracts that will definitely be on the clock next season, presently the Flames have 26, plus three contracts that can potentially slide. And this obviously excludes a good many players that could potentially sign, like Bill Arnold, Johnny Gaudreau and others.
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