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Originally Posted by GGG
Thats the same drivil that people have been posting in this thread about the signing. It completely ignores situations. It assumes every team should have just gone out and signed Brad Richards for 2 million dollars.
Calgary's asset is cap space. You can't save it. It doesn't role over, you use it or it disappears. So why do people hate calgary using its assets.
It completely ignores what makes a bad contract. A bad contract stops you from doing something else with your team. A bad contract has a high opportunity cost.
This contract has zero opportunity cost so at worst its a neutral deal. It has no future negative possibilities therefore it can't be the worst contract of the day. The GM himself admits that he overpayed to bring down the term. This was intentional use of our biggest asset cap space.
Other teams signed long term deals to win now sacrificing future cap space. If they win now then those contracts are successful. We did the oppisite sacrificed current cap space to win in the future.
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The Flames could have used that cap space on a better player. Sure it might have "hurt" them in the standings this season, but on the other hand it may have given a player like Giordano more incentive to sign an extension when the time comes.
Now if the Flames want to improve next offseason they have to go out and acquire an extra good player or two that they didn't land this season. Inactivity builds up.