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Old 06-17-2017, 05:01 PM   #21
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Cost to acquire was probably the conditional pick.

Cost to retain salary was probably Hickey
This is what I don't understand. The Flames aren't cap strapped, so why ask a poor team to retain and pay the necessary premium. For two seasons of a measly 1.2 million in savings? Just buy out Stajan and keep a good asset.
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Old 06-17-2017, 05:05 PM   #22
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This is what I don't understand. The Flames aren't cap strapped, so why ask a poor team to retain and pay the necessary premium. For two seasons of a measly 1.2 million in savings? Just buy out Stajan and keep a good asset.
Yo. Wait until after the expansion draft if you wanna go that route. There'll still be 10 more days after the Vegas thing to buyout Stajan or whoever.
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The flames are capped strapped though .... Or will be if they want to improve the team
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The flames are capped strapped though .... Or will be if they want to improve the team
Flames are not cap strapped.
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If Treliving doesn't fire Sigalet, and after the season we summarize that Smith didn't work out as planned, then I think Treliving should answer the bell.
Only a fool would blame a possible bad season by Smith on Sigalet. You think he's going to try to change how he plays?
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Only a fool would blame a possible bad season by Smith on Sigalet. You think he's going to try to change how he plays?
Sigalet is the evil suck demon of goalie coaches. All he has to do is show up for training camp, and every goalie on the team turns into toxic waste. It doesn't matter if he works with them or not. Just being in the same room is enough to trigger it.

Why, I was an NHL goalie myself once. (Bona-fide starter for the Banff Fighting Squirrels!) Then I saw Jordan Sigalet's reflection in a funhouse mirror, and poof! I turned into a newt.
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This is what I don't understand. The Flames aren't cap strapped, so why ask a poor team to retain and pay the necessary premium. For two seasons of a measly 1.2 million in savings? Just buy out Stajan and keep a good asset.
19 minute interview with Treliving and they didn't think to ask him that question. Irritating.
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This is what I don't understand. The Flames aren't cap strapped, so why ask a poor team to retain and pay the necessary premium. For two seasons of a measly 1.2 million in savings? Just buy out Stajan and keep a good asset.
Maybe they have information that Vegas plans to take Stajan, in which case his cap hit disappears entirely.

Maybe they don't want to purchase cap savings now at the expense of a cap hit extending further into the future.

Maybe Arizona wanted to retain salary to help them stay above the floor during what looks rather like a scorched-earth rebuild. Or at least they did not mind doing so.

And maybe, just maybe, killer_carlson is wrong, and the Flames could not have got Smith straight up (no salary retained) for the draft pick alone.
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This is what I don't understand. The Flames aren't cap strapped, so why ask a poor team to retain and pay the necessary premium. For two seasons of a measly 1.2 million in savings? Just buy out Stajan and keep a good asset.
The Flames have cap issues just like most teams. Treliving is limited by the cap and therefore the amount he spends on goaltending subtracts from the amount he can spend on forwards/defensemen. Getting goaltending at a cheaper rate allows him to spend elsewhere. Pretty elementary. That 1.2 million is not insignificant.

Buying out Stajan saves us pretty much nothing on the cap, I'm confused as to why you'd suggest that. Suggests to me that you don't really understand the implications of the salary cap. The Flames have a 23 man roster. If you buyout Stajan's 3.5 million his cap hit is 1.8 million next season (as per https://www.capfriendly.com/buyout_c...or/matt-stajan) but you still have to ice the same amount of people on your roster. Guess what the average NHL salary is? A lot more than the difference between 3.5 million and 1.8 million. You'd have to pay Stajan not to play for you while also paying a player to replace him. Unless the player was making league minimum you're not really saving anything.

I doubt the salary retained equated to half the value of the trade as killer carlson suggest. I think it more likely that the trade could have been Smith (full salary) for Hickey + conditional 3rd/4th and that saving the 1.2 million merely cost us a move down of a round in the draft into a 2nd/3rd. But obviously merely speculation on my part.
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Old 06-17-2017, 07:28 PM   #30
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Its a bad deal. The assets involved in this trade are low risk, especially if the Hickey rumours are true; however, Smith comes with too many question marks for my liking. Even if Smith's play doesn't drop off a cliff due to age, the Flames will have the worst goaltending out of any team they will meet in the playoffs.

If the goal is just make the playoffs it is all well and good, but then we could've just went with a goalie like Elliott. The way I see it we spent future assets and didn't address that glaring weakness(yet).
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The Flames have cap issues just like most teams. Treliving is limited by the cap and therefore the amount he spends on goaltending subtracts from the amount he can spend on forwards/defensemen. Getting goaltending at a cheaper rate allows him to spend elsewhere. Pretty elementary. That 1.2 million is not insignificant.

Buying out Stajan saves us pretty much nothing on the cap, I'm confused as to why you'd suggest that. Suggests to me that you don't really understand the implications of the salary cap. The Flames have a 23 man roster. If you buyout Stajan's 3.5 million his cap hit is 1.8 million next season (as per https://www.capfriendly.com/buyout_c...or/matt-stajan) but you still have to ice the same amount of people on your roster. Guess what the average NHL salary is? A lot more than the difference between 3.5 million and 1.8 million. You'd have to pay Stajan not to play for you while also paying a player to replace him. Unless the player was making league minimum you're not really saving anything.

I doubt the salary retained equated to half the value of the trade as killer carlson suggest. I think it more likely that the trade could have been Smith (full salary) for Hickey + conditional 3rd/4th and that saving the 1.2 million merely cost us a move down of a round in the draft into a 2nd/3rd. But obviously merely speculation on my part.
Jankowski would not cost 1.8 million and would be better than Stajan. The fact that you think the Flames need to replace Stajan with a 1.8 million dollar player suggests to me you don't know what the current minimum salary is.
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Old 06-17-2017, 07:39 PM   #32
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Maybe they have information that Vegas plans to take Stajan, in which case his cap hit disappears entirely.

Maybe they don't want to purchase cap savings now at the expense of a cap hit extending further into the future.

Maybe Arizona wanted to retain salary to help them stay above the floor during what looks rather like a scorched-earth rebuild. Or at least they did not mind doing so.

And maybe, just maybe, killer_carlson is wrong, and the Flames could not have got Smith straight up (no salary retained) for the draft pick alone.
Yeah and maybe they have information on the next nuclear holocaust? I mean, since we're tossing out outlandish hypotheticals.

Vegas would take a number of players before they take Stajan.
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Old 06-17-2017, 07:41 PM   #33
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Yeah and maybe they have information on the next nuclear holocaust? I mean, since we're tossing out outlandish hypotheticals.
Teams have had months to work out deals with Vegas over the expansion draft. The only thing outlandish here is your flat denial of the possibility that Treliving has some information.

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Old 06-17-2017, 08:42 PM   #34
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I ask only two things of Smith:

1) Please don't give up goals from shots along the goal line at the half-wall.

2) Don't let a soft wrister float by your recently closed glove hand (which you're intently staring at).

If you can reasonably achieve 1 and 2 above, we'll be fine.
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I picked "bad", but only because I think there were better options. What we gave up is pretty inconsequential IMO. It is like the Elliott trade. The price was low, but also a reminder that you often get what you pay for.


Kind of OT, but I wonder if Treliving might look for a "Joey MacDonald" type of back-up. One that has NHL experience, but could also pass through waivers so that guys like Rittich and Gillies can rotate in and out of the line-up to get some experience.
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Old 06-17-2017, 09:21 PM   #36
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I voted indifferent because looking back, the Flames had capable goalies. It's just that the Flames are just horrific in how they start and end the seasons. I'll have to see if the Flames actually ruin Smith as well. I still believe that if the Flames are built properly and if the plays are in the opposition zones 80-90% of the time, they won't have a goalie problem. With Smith being 35 years old, this is truly another stop gap in an attempt to find a way to get into the playoffs for one or two rounds only. You don't go to any finals with only a good goalie to support the whole team. You know that's BS, right?
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Old 06-17-2017, 11:02 PM   #37
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You don't go to any finals with only a good goalie to support the whole team. You know that's BS, right?
How unfortunate that the Flames have such a horrible roster, and need their goalie to support the whole team. Amirite?
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Old 06-18-2017, 07:34 AM   #38
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Great article - sums things up very well. I wish I had read it before I made my last (very similar but nowhere near as thorough or as good) post in the trade thread!

One really good point was with respect to the risk of signing a Raanta or Grubrauer type. After acquiring Hiller and that falling off a cliff, and then acquiring Elliott and Johnson and even that didn't work, the Flames really couldn't risk signing an unknown (as far as being a starter).

With Smith, they know exactly what they are getting. Not elite goaltending, but solid goaltending for a couple years while they see what they have in Parsons and Gillies.
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Old 06-18-2017, 08:57 AM   #39
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I'd never suggest a blind faith in a GM or in a team, but I honestly trust Treliving to really beat the details to death when he makes a decision. Doesn't mean he makes the right one every time, as no GM does, but I know it's not haphazard or reckless.

I think landing at Smith likely says a few things ...

1) they couldn't get another option (MAF)
2) the cost to acquire other goaltenders was way too high
3) they couldn't be sure an untested goalie would be an upgrade
4) they didn't want the uncertainty of waiting until after the freeze
5) they feel their young stable of goaltenders is solid and will be ready in 2 years
6) they didn't want to make a decision on trading one of those young goaltenders without another season to sort out their order

As a guy that had MAF/Howard/Smith all along, I like where they went with this. If I could keep the 2nd at a 3rd I'd be happier, but I'm glad they shored up the goaltender position without moving Gillies, Andersson, Jankowski, Kylington or their 1st
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Old 06-18-2017, 09:18 AM   #40
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I'm not a fan of the deal - seems too rich to me, but I think the Flames were ultimately over a barrel. Funny how things turned out when early predictions were for a buyers market on goaltenders.

I'm not worried about Smith - the Flames brass know him very well.
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