Clarke MacArthur a UFA

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Or Kalinin, Kotalik and Afinogenov were willing to sign deals before their hearings, while Dumont held out trying to get more money. You can look at it any way you want.

It takes two to tango.

That's not how it went down.

Dumont was never contacted by the Sabres. It does take two to tango; and it was Regier that wouldn't.

That's the only way to look at it.

[eSabre]

That's not how it went down.

Dumont was never contacted by the Sabres. It does take two to tango; and it was Regier that wouldn't.

That's the only way to look at it.

Find me a link that this happened. That isn't written by anyone named Gleason.

[Thumper]

Go look for it yourself if you need that.

I have a solid memory on it.

[Thumper]

Okay...Because I'm a loser as well as have a bit of down time at work...

"They never made any offer until I went through arbitration, and right after when they said they walked away, there was no doubt in my mind that I was going to be out of there," he said. "I didn't feel comfortable at all anymore to be part of an organization that walked away from me."

http://findarticles.com/p/news-artic.../ai_n42934797/

[eSabre]

Okay...Because I'm a loser as well as have a bit of down time at work...



http://findarticles.com/p/news-artic.../ai_n42934797/

Well your original point was they never contacted him. The quote says they never made an offer.

You're inferring things on your own. Don't try passing opinions as fact.

[buffalofan19]

The way I understood that quote was that the Sabres never made a counter offer until after the arbitration hearing. By then, the damage was done.

[Thumper]

Well your original point was they never contacted him. The quote says they never made an offer.

You're inferring things on your own. Don't try passing opinions as fact.

What the hell are you talking about? They didn't CONTACT him with a CONTRACT offer.

That was my original point, which was a fact. They never made an offer until after his arbitration hearing, and they low-balled the shit out of him. He was last on their list. Regier didn't think it was in his teams best interest to make signing Dumont a priority. Other players, in Regier's view, were more important. He was the odd man out. How many different ways is there to say it? Are you trying to say that a phone call to Dumont's agent may have happend before arbitration? If there was no contract offered, which there wasn't, how does that make anything different?

Talk about splitting hairs to prop your point up.

You were trying to spin it like Dumont held out, and Kalinin, Kotalik, and Afinogenov were all willing to negotiate. Who's inferring things on there own?