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Originally Posted by cowtown75
Umm, we dumped a 6 and a half million dollar contract that no one a year ago thought would be possible to move and turned it into Emile Poirier, Reto Berra and mark Cundari. And considering J-Bo was on his last year of contract also, I'd say we did better than expected- and we were smart enough not to retain salary to do it.
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We "dumped" that contract? The Blues gave him 27 million over 5 years about 3 months after we traded him. Bouwmeester was overpaid but only by about 1.2 million and only had a year and a half of his current deal left. He wasn't an atrocity.
Poirier is most likely the only good piece we got out of him. Berra is a 26 year old now playing in the AHL and Cundari's best case scenario looks to be as that of a bottom pairing guy. Those two pieces are dime a dozen.
Additionally we have ~13 million in cap space this year that's presently wasted. Before anyone twists that I don't mean you spend to the cap for the sake of it more so that it's sitting idle and would be of use to teams around the league. Our best realistic use of that right now is to parlay it into assets in exchange for helping a team or 2 out with cap problems right now....which is why it's baffling you think the Flames were "smart" to not retain salary. The owners continuously give the mantra that they'll spend what it takes so if they're true to their word there shouldn't be a problem on the bankrolling end.