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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Well, that's not true. That extra cap space can easily be used later on to bring in a bad contract and a draft pick our way.
I think some of you need to accept there are several ways to do the same thing, several ways to rebuild a team and just because the Flames are whoever don't do it exactly as you wish, exactly as you had it in your head, step-by-step, it's wrong.
Extra cap space going forward seems to be extremely valuable. If the Flames use that cap space to bring back a 2nd round pick the way Kotalik did for the Sabres then it flies directly in the face of what you just said.
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Not saying you are wrong because that is certainly one route to take, but it seems like a more compicated and harder route to go.
Most media and posters thought that the flames would eat some salary to get a better prospect back. That would jive with Ken Kings statement of rebuilding as fast as they can.
If they go the route you are suggesting they would probably get a 2nd or 3rd round pick to take on a bad contract. That pick will take longer to develop than a prospect a year away from skating in the bigs.
If they trade for a bad contract and a prospect instead of a pick, then they are taking on 2 contracts on the 50 limit. All they had to do was eat some money and get the 1 contract back.
If they go the RFA route with the money, they still have to give up a good prospect or pick to get him. It's not like these teams in cap trouble are going to give them out for free. I don't think the flames have the prospects to do it.
To me ( and it could just be me) it seems that they want the money to spend in UFA on the 27-30 year old player. This is what they have done in the past, ie Hudler and Wideman. Feaster seems to have given a shiny new word (apex) to basically what they were doing before.