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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The Flames are already close to the cap for next season and will not have room to sign Russell or Hudler. I am pretty sure that Stamkos is not sitting out a year to wait for the Flames to get some cap room.
The point that I have been making is that the Flames have to be good enough in their top 3 that they can fit in a value d-man as #4.
The Flames top 3 at 17M is the second highest paid top-3 in the league...at least for the next 2-3 years.
Minnesota 15.6
Nashville 14.5
Chicago 15.4
LA 15.0
All have legitimate multi award winners anchoring their top 3. any of Weber, Suter, Keith and Doughty get picked for the Canadian Olympic team for instance, ahead of any of our big 3.
The only team that is spending more on D-men is Montreal at 20.2M for their top 3 and 4M for their #4... How is that working out? Dale Wiese and spare part forward from the Ducks playoff run Fleischmann is in their top 6-7 forward.
The rest of the teams are going with concept that a 5M+ d-man should make a 2M d-man look great. Look at Brodie and Engelland from the best 2-3 months in the last 10 years of the Flames for example.
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And they have the 2nd best (behind Nashville) top 3 in the league. So, what's your point? The guys are getting paid what they deserve.