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Originally Posted by ricardodw
So for all the people saying he resigns in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh buys out Fluery or trades him for a 3rd round pick leaving Volkun and Hartzell as their goalies. They gain 4M in cap room.
They give that to Iginla.
4 more players and 7.8 M of cap space...... 3M for Dupuis ( Morrow and Doug Murray, go elsewhere) and 3 players for 4.8M.
Their roster begins to look a lot like Tampa Bays after their Cup win. .... when they kept St.L, Richards, Lecavilier and Boyle and let Khabullin go and went with Graehme and 37 year old Sean Burke in goal.
No more SC and two playoff series loses in the next 5 seasons.
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Agree they could do that kind of cap management to keep Iginla, and I suspect they will. But I don't agree with the Tampa Bay analogy. Khabibulin was dumped right after being an outstanding contributor to a Cup win, while it's been a couple of years since Fleury has shown he's a solid, consistent playoff goalie. It's starting to look like Pittsburgh has no confidence in Fleury anyway, so it wouldn't be the same as TB dumping Khabibulin.