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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
I don't think it's as cut and dry as it's made out to be.
The reports make it sound like the buyout would take place AFTER the shortened season, so the Flames would get a better idea of who fits and doesn't fit in under Hartley's system. Maybe it would be Stajan, or maybe Stempniak who will have the same dollars owing, or maybe Wideman or Hudler if they end up not fitting in with the club, heck it could even be a player the Flames haven't acquired yet as they could pick up an overpriced player at the trade deadline and then make them the buyout so its more like they are a rental without the huge cost to acquire them.
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That would leave them with 7-10M in cap space to drop if they re-sign Iginla at 6-7M.
ALL the cap teams will be dropping someone with signficant salary with this buy out.
After all the input on this thread it is almost surely has to be Bouwmeester. He is by far the worst Flames contract.
The only other options are Cammalleri or Wideman or Kipper....
Ie the guys making over 5M.
As bad as Stempniak and Sarich and Stajan are being overpaid .... when you count in their roster replacement at 1M they provide very little cap savings.
If I was a Flames owner I would make a rule that Feaster can't give out any contracts to surnames starting with "S"