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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The Flames have 15 players signed to play in 2013/14. (including baerstchi)
9 forwards ,5 d men and a goalie.
The total cap committed to is 49,296,250.
If the Cap was 60M the Flames would have 10,703,750 to sign 4 forwards, 2 d-men and a goalie.
This would be smallest roster size the Flames have had basically ever.
The important pieces missing are Iginla, Cervenka, Backlund, Butler and Brodie and a backup goalie.
So please show me some logic that the Flames do not have to have a significant buy out of a current contract to ice a NHL calibre roster. Does get rid of Stajans 3.5 and making it signing 8 players for 14.2M work?
IF Iginla signs for a discount 5M then 7 players for 9.2 means we are in the Hunt for the big UFAs.???
The "logic" that you are looking at is that the "opening offer" of a 60M cap and no place to hide bad contracts (Europe, AHL) will not come to fruition. The owners decided to write off the season to keep the costs contained and are going to go along with a 7M raise to last years cap????
Last years cap was 63M. Why would you think that a 60M cap is not a logical possibility.
The GMs were handing out inflated contracts as though there was going to be a 70M cap..... There was a logic that these would be rolled back... but the NHLPA seems to have won on that front.
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Can they improve their team, most likely not. It seems you are looking for a home run Stanley Cup contender? The flames will not be that for some years.
The 2013 ufa market is not going to be getting the contracts of past. I would say that a $60 million cap the ufa's will be taking much less just to get on a team, instead of being replaced by rookie contracts. Players are not going to be able to take there time once the ufa market opens. There is only so much money and spots available. That will also effect Cervenka. He would have to have an incredible year to get over $3 million again. There are also trades.
Quite frankly i hope for the $60 million cap ( even though i think it will be higher) just so the flames ownership and management wake up and get rid of some of the aging core and go in a different direction. This will give them a way to save face and trade Iggy and Kipper.
I get why you want Bouw of the team ( so do I) but they are better off waiting until his final year, eat up some of the contract and then trade him at the deadline.
Stajan is all but bought out. Feaster made a comment in the summer on how he felt about Stajans contract. Something to the effect that every manager makes a bad one, when referencing Stajan.