Avalanche treating O'Reilly like he works at Wal-Mart

Colorado Avalanche are owned by Kroenke Sports Enterprises which is run by Enos Stanley Kroenke and his wife's father who is Bud Walton who is a co-owner of wal-mart and now Kroenke is low balling Ryan O'Reilly like he a wal-mart employee. So coming into the strike shorten season there were three high profiled restricted free agents in the NHL who were O'Reilly along with Dallas Stars Jamie Benn and the Montreal Canadiens P.K. Suban and O'Reilly is the only one left out in the cold without a contract. It is so bad between O'Reilly and the Avalanche organization that a quarter of a season (12 games) of the shorten season (48 games) they still can not figure out a long term deal like Jamie Benn (5 year and 26.25 Mil) or a short term fix like P.K. Suban reached with the Canadiens (2 year and 5.75 mil) so that he is a step closer to free agency. So if other teams want to talk trade with the Avalanche is are looking for the moon, the stars, and even a couple of planets as they are looking for two players that can play now along with a prospect and the cherry on top is a first round draft pick. If someone wants to make a contract offer to O'Reilly they can put if that happens the Avalanche would most likely match and retain O'Reilly and if they decided to not match the contract they would most likely receive two or three draft in exchange for O'Reilly. O'Reilly who had a break out season last year for the Avalanche in his third full season with the team and he doubled his point totals from 26 points in both of the 2009-10 season and the 2010-2011 season to then put up 55 points in the 2011-12 season. The Avalanche are looking for a 3.5 mil a year cap hit either in a 5 year and 17.5 mil or 2 years and 7 mil a season and according to O'Reilly who was making 4 mil in the KHL during the lockout wants at least that if not more like Jets' Evander Kane and Bruins' David Krejci money which is just more than 5 mil a season but Kane has steadily improved and ended last season with 30 goals while Krejci has over 50 points a season over the past 4 seasons and pushing 60 points a season. In the end Colorado and O'Reilly really need to meet somewhere in the middle at maybe something like a two year deal in the 7.5-8 mil range which would get him three years away from free agency and it would allow O'Reilly takes his game to another level and cash-in in a couple of years and the last single O'Reilly needs os to lose a season and be that further away from free agancy. both sides are standing their ground and do not want to meet in the middle Tom Mehegan