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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yeah he's likely going to be Flames property until the end of the deal as no team will take him. Personally I would like to see the Flames buy him and D. Jones out and use the cap savings to bring in a pricey free agent that can play and contribute. Hard to imagine the owners having an appetite for buyouts given the Flames are pretty well breaking even now and will probably looking at their sellout streak ending in the next few years.
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Assuming they don't re-sign Cammalleri, they are looking at having to throw as much as $10m at free agents next year already.
If they bought out Jones and O'Brien, they would have to find something like $15m in free agent takers. That would require throwing completely stupid money around.
By the way, the Flames were better than breaking even when they were spending to the cap. I would think they are very profitable now - like the Oilers were in 2011.