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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
You're assuming Engelland, Smid, Raymond, Bollig aren't moved to make space. That's about 11 million right there that will have just one year remaining. All "high-character" guys too. And the team's better without them.
Losing Bouma, Colborne, Russell wouldn't be ideal, but they're still the kind of Ladd/Byfuglien tier 2 players you look to replace with ELC guys and bridge contract guys like Wotherspoon, Culkin, Kulak, Hathaway, Agostino etc.
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I am not counting Smid.... Bollig could be moved tomorrow but does not help the cap situation at all. so having Raymond and Engelland claimed on waivers saves 6M
What sort of team would want Raymond and Engelland at 3M / per without some of their dead salary coming back?
Have they gotten better since the Flames offered them a better contract than anyone else would? I don't recall a whole bunch of GMs or even board posters saying how bad they felt that they missed out on the Raymond Engelland UFA deals.