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Originally Posted by Cheerio
You always have cap space until you don't. Our cap situation next summer doesn't look too great in my opinion, and I don't think we can count on the cap going up either. The goal is to have underpaid player, if you overpay another guy because you're underpaying a player, there is no gain.
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As soon as the Flames qualified him knowing he would likely take the arbitration route, their hands were tied.
They likely knew he was going to get around $2 million from arbitration.