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Originally Posted by Dagger
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.
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You contradict yourself. You say you don't mean to say they should spend to the cap for the sake of it, but then say it's baffling why it was "smart" not to retain salary. Which is it?
We got a first rounder and a couple prospects of questionable value for a defenceman who was largely overpaid and was riding the high of a good shortened season. Bouw got 5 from the Blues for the play that was seen during last season, which is arguably the best he has played in his entire time as a Flame. He was playing his best, and took a paycut.
There's no way of knowing a better offer was out there, it's not like teams were clamouring for Bouw by any account. It was smart to retain salary, because if you don't have to, you DONT. It was unlikely to get us a better prospect, and eating a couple million wasn't going to get them to throw in a second or a third.
As said, it was smart for them not to eat salary on a deal that would've likely turned out pretty similar either way. You eat salary to take advantage of teams and situations, eating salary in the St.Louis deal wasn't going to get us anything, St.Louis didn't need us to eat salary.