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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I think you have the blinders on here. To buy out Bouwmeeser will cost you 4 million plus, and you'll still need to get a 3-4 million dollar player to replace what he brings. So really you save 2.5 million in cap, and spend 8 million to do it. Whereas if you buyout Stajan, the buyout costs the team around 1.6 million and the guy that you replace Stajan with likely is playing for 700k a year. So you gain 2.8 in cap savings and spend 2.3 million to get it.
As much as many of us love to bash on Bouwmeester...he is going to be one of the teams top 3 defenceman, and quite likely will lead them in ice time. If they remove a guy like him from the lineup, they have to bring in another player from outside the organization to plug the hole it would create in the lineup. Should the cap contract drastically...the Flames like many other teams will feel a big squeeze. They might be better off to take their lumps that year, let short term deals with high cap hits like Bouwmeester, Cammalleri, and Kiprusoff expire, than start anew the season after that.
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So you think the league will let the Flames over-send the 60M cap in 2013-14? or are counting Ignlia as an expired contract?
The Flames current payroll is 67 M or 68.5 M with Bartschi on the team.
all the player over 1M but Cervenka, Iginla and Bab#### are signed for 2013/14...
The replacements for Cervenka (2nd line centre) would have to be over 2M and the Babchuck replacement will be 800K plus a Million each raise for Butler and Brodie, so they won't be saving a lot of money off their current cap.
Bouwmesster being paid as a top 10
in the league d-man is absolutely not justified..... Having a 3M replacement for him saves over 3.6M in cap space and likely makes the team better.