[Frank MetaMusil]

Originally Posted by EddyBeers

I wish they would trade them all, including Iginla and Kipper, try to accumulate as many picks as possible and then be players in the UFA market, the trade market (with teams needing to get under the cap) and amongst bought out players. This offseason is unique in the sense that:

1) There will likely be somewhere around 15-20 bought out players around the league, much higher than in other years.
2) The following teams have around 1 million dollars a player to spend to complete their rosters:

Philadelphia, Vancouver, Chicago, Tampa, Boston, San Jose. I would suggest all of those teams may be prime for the picking in terms of getting players off their roster in trades where the team may even pick up some of the salary and give the Flames a second rounder to take the player.

Take the Hawks for instance, if I was the Flames I would consider the following trade:

Olesz
Pirri

for
Brady Lamb

The guy is in all likelihood done, but you are getting a decent prospect in Pirri for a Brady Lamb. The Flames eat a year of Olesz salary, the Hawks may do it because they need to clear cap room and even after potentially buying out Frolik and Oduya, they would only have 10 million to sign:

Nick Leddy
Marcus Kruger
Stalhberg
A backup goalie
three other players

If the Flames do a decent job at the deadline this year, I think there are unique opportunities to continue the rebuild this offseason and pick up even more prospects and perhaps even the odd decent player or two.

Beers, this is the key point that I do agree with you on. The Flames won't improve or suck worse than these type of roster moves. Another team ripe for the picking is Minnesota, because of their recent cap contributions to Parise and Suter. Plus it's a divisional opponent.