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Originally Posted by Gaudfather
It's easier than you realize to slip into cap hell. Treliving has to be very careful that the Flames don't put themselves in that situation in 3-4 years time - might require some tough decisions. Fortunately I think the Flames have a good institutional memory on this and Treliving was used to managing in a tough budget scenario in Arizona.
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Yep. There's extremely strong pressure on teams that think they're contenders to grab that last piece or two to take them over the top, and to do anything they can to retain their key players. That almost always means storing up cap problems for down the road. Staying out of cap hell in the wake of contending is the exception, not the norm.