Given all the rumors from last summer about Treliving nearly snagging 7th overall by taking on a contract from Carolina (Ward IIRC?), I wonder if there is any way to nab the 5th overall from them this year? Even if it's just moving up from 15th overall...
Jonas Hiller (1 more year @ $4,500,000 salary)
15th Overall
for
Cam Ward (1 more year @ $6,800,000 salary)
Alex Semin (3 more years @ $7,000,000 salary)
5th Overall
35th Overall
Flames then pick:
5th
35th
45th
52nd
53rd
76th
83rd
etc.....
That's a lot of money though just to move up 10 spots and also grab 35th overall (27.8 - 4.5 = $23.3 million)
Give Semin one year with the team to rejuvenate his career with a change of scenery, and if he can't then a buy out next spring would only take $2.3 cap space for 4 years.
Ward would be a 1A/1B with Ortio.
Meh, I really wish one of these types of cap space/money deals would go down so we can all finally see what one actually looks like, and what kind of value taking on money/bad contracts actually has.
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