At worst you can look to buyout the trio of Raymond, Engelland, and Smid. Buyout will result in an extra year of a 3 million dollar cap bogey, but you would clear 6 million off your cap for the 2016-2017 season and your replacement players for those guys could all be 700 to 800k per year players. Really that's the key season. Fit your group in a cap number that season, and you should be in good shape moving ahead.
I don't see anyway in which the Flames retain both Hudler, and Giordano with contracts that have 7 million per season cap hits.
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