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Originally Posted by Matty81
Also worth considering... Sorry for the multi post, but there is no need to move him. There is no RHD at the door in the system. The flames have a massive amount of cap space to play with. I did a quick look at general fanager and would guess that they'll have about 7-7.5 in free cap space after re signing gaudreau, monahan and colborne. Need two goalies and a bunch of depth/entry level guys which should be easy especially if ortio is 1.
Unless they want to add a big piece, there's no need to clear space, especially with another 15 mil or so off the books next year.
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We are currently heavy on RHD. Wideman, Hamilton, Engelland, Nakladal. There may be none coming up but we also don't necessarily need 4 of them for next year. I think we move one of Wideman/Engelland and I think I'd rather keep Engelland. As a physical defensive d-men he's a rarer commodity on our blue line.
I do think we'd ideally like to try and add a big piece. A 1st or 2nd line scorer through trade/UFA. So I do think you need to move one of Wideman/Engelland for salary reasons and Wideman makes more. Wideman is being paid like a top 4 D but for us in terms of performance he's been bottom pairing. On a team where he's solidly top 4 his salary makes more sense. We don't really need him for the PP because I think Gio, Brodie, Hamilton and Nakladal are as good or better right now on the PP. So he makes more sense on a team that actually needs him to play 1st PP unit and is lacking a big, RH shot.
There'll be a team out there looking for what he provides this summer. I think it makes a lot of sense to move him. He's overpaid for what we need him for but he could make a lot more sense in another team's salary structure. Some teams are lacking right hand point shots for the power play.