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Originally Posted by moon
That is an absolute crap core and with the garbage available in FA all the money in the world isn't getting you anything to make the team a SC contender even with Bowman as coach.
Cap is such an overrated "asset" as it guarantees you nothing and is zero help if the team is crap and/or the players available aren't any good.
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Prospects and draft picks is such an overrated "asset" as it guarantees you nothing and is zero help if the team is crap and/or the players available aren't any good.
Proven over the last 6 years every since Sam Gagner was the best prospect on the team with the best young guys and had the best draft picks in the history of the league.
Right now the Flames are paying their core the same as Edmonton's core and
Tanguay, Wideman, Hudler, Gio and Glencross are not markedly worse than Eberle, Hall, Horcoff and Smid AT the same price.
Feaster has gotten rid of a lot of the super Bad contracts and the Flames are in a better position than Edmonton......
The Flames can't go and get back into the mess they just got out of. The can't go and geta 2nd/3rd line centre (like RoR) and pay him like he was the 2nd or 3rd best centre in the league.
They have to go after UFA's and players that are available because of other teams cap problems.... but they all have to be able to deliver on their salaries
Hudler is not and will never be worth 4M for 5 years.
Wideman might earn his salary as high scoring defensemen.
The teams that offer Horton or Clarkson more than 4M / year are going to be very limited.....
Clowe has to look at what the post goal scoring machine Bertuzzi got paid.
The lack of cap space has hurt the Flames in the past as they could not afford the 2M value contract for Owens and then Bertuzzi.
The Flames were on the wrong side of the Regehr-Butler trade because they were in cap prison. Now they are in a position to convert Butler into someone else top 4 d-man.