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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
Can you please show me where anyone on the Flames or Blues said this, and what the "better trade" options were?
Thanks.
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I vaguely remember Feaster mentioning in a post-trade press conference that retaining salary was never an option and there were a lot of rumors about few teams being interested in Bouwmeester due to his salary (Detroit is one that I specifically remember being interested but unwilling to give up much unless we retained salary). Even if I'm misremembering the Feaster quote and there was nothing to the rumors, common sense would indicate that a team that's well under the cap could get a better return for a good but overpriced player when trying to trade him to teams that are against the cap if they were willing to eat some salary.
That's all to say that this team, like all others, considers the financial implications of hockey decisions all the time. Financial implications will be a consideration in determining whether or not to send Monahan down, but I'm confident that they won't be the primary factor.