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Originally Posted by mhsyyc
Well, I think you can add a fourth issue and that was his mismanagement of the salary cap. There's nothing like going into a game short because your GM screwed up counting on his fingers.
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That wasn't really his fault and could have happened to any team.
The problem was that the Flames were hit with a couple of significant injuries to high salary players with less than 10 games left in the season. The CBA rules at the time didn't allow the Flames to put those players on LTIR and replace their salaries because you can only put a player on LTIR if he's going to miss 10 or more regular season games.
Regehr, Sarich, and Phaneuf were all injured within the final 10 games of the season in 2009. Their combined cap hits were over $14 million. That year's cap was $56.7 million. That's nearly 25% of their cap payroll that could not be replaced.
The current CBA has changed the rules so that can't happen again, which tells you all you need to know about how much the league blamed Sutter for that situation happening.