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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I absolutely agree, this is a can't-miss strategy for the Oilers. Sign players to big money before they prove themselves, so they can't demand even bigger money later.
I mean, what could go wrong? It worked perfectly for the Flames with Phaneuf. . . .
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Except that the Flames allotted a much larger chunk of cap space to Phaneuf. 6 years ago 6.5 million was a huge cap number, next year 6 million is merely a big cap number.