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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
The post directly above mine says it is the answer.
This team is in a better position to develop talent and attract or retain talent with Iginla around than if he is not, in my opinion.
Moving the big name talent of Iginla on this team will put us in the same position we were in during the years after we moved Fleury - an afterthought market.
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Not in a cap world. In a cap world where you are going into an offseason where there are a lot of teams with serious cap problems, moving out 23 million in cap space, buying your team an additional 15.5 million or so in cap space, making it so you are on of the few teams with copious amounts of cap space (roughly 30 million to sign 10 players) makes you an automatic player in the free agent market.
As a comparable, right now
http://capgeek.com/payrolls/?charts_year=2013
virtually every team with large amounts of cap space to use next year are not cap teams, they are unlikely to be spending that money anyway. The Flames could go and get some quality UFA's in the offseason, or they could pick up some quality players from teams in cap trouble. It is a different world than in the Fleury era.