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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
We have already gone full circle here. I will finish by mentioning, once again, the large elephant in the room that you have not yet addressed, being that WPG and CAR retained salaries.
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Winnipeg and Carolina retained salaries because they couldn't have made the deals without retaining some salary. Chicago and New York simply didn't have the cap space for Ladd or Staal otherwise.
Florida has an abundance of cap space (hell, they took on Marc Savard's contract in the summer because they have so much cap space), so they had no incentive to need the Flames to retain salary.
The Flames aren't going to retain salary for no reason, and Florida wasn't going to give up better assets to get the Flames to retain salary because they didn't need it.