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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
This is probably what frustrates the most. So much wasted cap space on roster that is pathetic down the middle, and has a very slim chance to even make the playoffs.
Meanwhile, teams like Phoenix and Nashville are consistently making the playoffs, and even winning rounds lately, with a payroll that barely exceeds the cap floor.
Then you have Dallas, who has also struggled to make the playoffs lately, but they are in the mix every year, also with a cap floor payroll.
....and don't even get me started on teams like LA and St. Louis, cup contending/cup winner teams operating well below the Flames budget.
Heck, look at the Bruins. They have twice as much cap space as the Flames do right now (about $8 million), and that's not including Savards $4+ million cap hit which they don't even have to put on LTIR because they have so efficiently used their cap dollars.
Ridiculous.
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That's what happens when you only get decent players through free agency.
The only obscenely paid player on those teams are their absolute best players: Chara, Doughty, Quick, Jamie Benn, Keith Yandle, Oliver Ekman Larson, David Backes, Alex Pietrangelo, Shea Weber, Pekka Rinne.
Every team you're jealous of? Home grown talent or only top dollars for
top players.
None of those teams have a guy like Cammalleri making 6 million, and that's because he ain't worth it.