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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I am certain the stumbling block on Bouma is in trying to negotiate a longer term deal. If both sides were Ok with one year, a deal would be done by now. If there is no deal before the arbitration hearing I believe Flames will agree to a one year deal relatively close to what Bouma camp is asking for since effect on this years cap is not too big a deal.
In 2016/17 Flames currently only have 6 NHL forwards under contract and only one (Bennett) is on a contract that repesents exceptional value for the team. The rest are at full fair market value deals or in the case of Raymond, over FMV.
We have $22 million tied up in 5 defencemen with our best Dman yet to sign.
Zero NHL goalies under contract.
In two years Flames will have gone from one of the lowest payrolls in the league to being right up against the cap. That is about 12 contracts Treliving needs to get done in next 12 months.
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Once we give Bouma a one year contract at $2.5M it won't be going down. I do think $2M for 3 years would be fair though.
Looking at our cap situation in 2016/17, yeah we'll be up against the cap.
Frolic - 4.3M
Hudler - 5.0M this is just a guess and if we don't sign him, it will solve a lot of problems.
Jones - gone
Backlund - 3.575M
Raymond - 3.15M I think I might give up a draft pick to unload him. He isn't terrible but overpriced.
Stajan - 3.125M possible trade bait
Colborne - 1.5M guesstimate
Bollig - 1.25M not overpriced but wouldn't miss him
Gaudreau - 6M guesstimate
Monahan - 6M guesstimate
Granlund - 0.8M "
Shore - 1.0M "
Jooris - 1.0M "
Bouma - 2.0M "
Ferland - 1.5M
Bennett - 0.925M
That's 15 forwards at about $41M
On defence we have
Hamilton - 5.75M
Wideman - 5.25M
Brodie - 4.65M
Smid - 3.5M could end up on LTI which would help to re-sign Russell or we could trade
Giordano - 7M complete guess but he has to fit into our budget
Engelland - 2.916M
Wotherspoon - 1.0M or could be Morrison etc.
That's about $30M for defence.
In goal it's a total guess but it would help if Ortio takes a spot. Lets budget $5M for our goalies.
That comes out to about $76M cap.
The cap could go up and we'll be fine but I'd like a couple of moves made so we can keep Hudler and Russell. Some of our cheaper forwards could be replaced by prospects but the salary savings wouldn't be much.