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Originally Posted by opendoor
The 05-06 Hawks weren't right at the floor, but they clearly needed to spend a bunch of money to become cap compliant for 05-06. Other than their big 4 free agent signings (Khabibulin, Aucoin, Spacek, and Lapointe) they only had about $13-15M committed for the rest of their team under a $23M floor and $39M cap. So they spent $15M on those guys and ended up around $28M-30M for the year.
It's also important to note that spending right at the floor didn't really happen back then. Even though they were only a little below the midpoint, Chicago had the 6th lowest payroll in the league in 05-06, spending less than teams like Phoenix, Nashville, New York Islanders, and Atlanta.
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Thanks for showing some info there, I wasn't sure where to find it.
I don't remember ever hearing about those moves being about "getting to the floor" which is why I'm leery about it now. There were tonnes of signings that off season though so maybe I missed it but this is the first time I'm seeing that argument made. I'm open to it but I don't see it.
Considering how low the cap for is (23 million) I'd say being around 29 million isn't just spending to get to the cap. Obviously with how low the cap was at the time they were on the lower end, but if they were really just spending to get to the cap they would have come in several million dollars less.
Flash and I are going in circles though, I still haven't seen anything to suggest the Hawks had a brilliant move to decide to suck and rebuilt as opposed to sucking and then going with it. That's what happened to them and that's what's happening to the Flames.