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Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten
Cap space may be overarated this year in terms of who is available as far as UFA's go, but it's not overrated.
If the the Flames draft well with their probable top three pick this year and the coming years, it will be nice to have the cap space available to extend those players for a number of years after their ELC expire-if they are worth it-at a higher salary.
Not to mention, that a team, like the Devils were a few years ago with Malakhov, who needs to dump a player(s) to make space may offer a first rounder with that player to get him of their hands.
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Cap space is valuable when you have the team to use it and the players to go out and get.
But having cap space like the Flames do now with a bad team and crap players out there does nothing and isn't very valuable at all. If anything the temptation to use it and sign guys to bad deals long term can make it a bad or at least dangerous thing to have.
In specific times with the right teams it is very valuable but overall and the way many fans talk about it I think it is overrated.