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Originally Posted by LickTheEnvelope
I'm not sure where everyone is seeing all this supposed cap space...?
Hagman makes 3 mil for a few more seasons...
So with just Hagman you're saving $3.5 mil.
White needs to be re-signed as an RFA and with his numbers is probobly around $2 - $3 ish mil/year...
If you re-sign Stajan who will be around $3 mil you're actually spending more than Phanuef by about $2 mil or so...
Or you are dropping 1 or 2 of these guys with marginal extra cap space...
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Did I miss something?
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Yes. The issue is that Phaneuf can only play as one person on the ice. Hagman, White and Stajan are 3 players. So you are mysteriously forgetting about the other 2 players who would have to be playing.
Phaneuf 6.5 million
Random Guy X 1.5 million
Random Guy Y 1.5 million
VS
Hagman 3 million
White 1.5 million
Stajan 2 million
(all numbers are approximations due to FA status)
If those numbers were the case you'd be saving the entire salaries of Random Guy X and Random Guy Y, the guys most people are forgetting about when they do their overly simplistic salary cap math. I've ballparked them at a fairly low 1.5 million each. Backlund could be filled in as one of those guys. So basically you're saving a few million depending on who Sutter would have had to use in their places.
The salary cap implications become more obvious when Jokinen's contract expires. Then you have like 5+ million to spend. And instead of having to spend that on 3-4 forwards, with our new potential depth we might be able to concentrate that into 1-2 forwards. Yes there are raises that need to be factored in too and some expiring contracts but thats a rough approximation.
It changes the dynamics of how much is spent on defense in Calgary and how much on forwards. We can now and in the future afford to spend more up front. That is what is not reflected in a simplistic salary cap subtraction to see how much cap space was temporarily gained.