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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
The challenge for Treliving is actually the cap floor. The Flames can't just dump players for picks because they can't fall under the cap. They could pick up a contract along with a pick to even out the trade but I don't want to pick up an under performing high contract because 1) it could mess up chemistry, 2) because it wouldn't fix the logjam and could relegate one of the young players to the bench/AHL.
I think Treliving shouldn't trade unless 1) he gets a pick or 2) he picks up a player who fits one of the Flames' needs (ie 2nd pairing D or RW). We should be very hesitant to use our cap space as an enticement to give us a higher draft pick/better quality prospect if we take on a bad contract.
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For clarity, the cap is calculated daily. The Flames are running a bit of a surplus over the floor so far (albeit not a very big one), so they are banking space.
They
can in fact go under the floor on any given day, what they
can't do is have their running aggregate fall under the floor.
As a quick example (not accurate numbers), say the daily floor is $270k and the Flames daily payroll is $280k. That would mean that they are inching $10k further ahead of the floor each day. So if they fell below $270k to $250k, 20 days into the season, that would be okay because they would be $200k ahead at that point. If they remained at $250k, ($20k under the floor), they would burn up the $200k excess in 10 days and on the 11th day, they would be non-compliant.