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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Perhaps you should take a step back..... Try to look at it as someone not fully vested as a Flames fan.
The Flames were right at the cap last year.... Before they dumped Hudler, Russell, Jones there was a chance that they Gaudreau/Bennett getting bonuses would come out of the 2016-17 cap.
The Flames dump 18M in cap space in 2017-18. Wideman-Engelland-Raymond-Bollig... After Bennett and Ferland are signed that will leave around 10-12 M in Cap space... to fill in 3 roster spots.
The Flames ... just keeping their current team together will be at the cap in 2017-18.
Teams that have this kind of cap problems should be coming off a SC run.
The Flames picked/ settled on their rebuilt team last season when they went for it getting Hamilton and Frolik long term and extending Gio.
last summer they made a significant move of the same magnitude of signing Bouwmeester. The Bouwmeester impact took at least 4 years to recover.
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I did some fact checking, and it looks like you're actually right in regards to our 2017-2017 cap situation. The Bouma and Stajan contracts will be the only anchors by then, yet there still won't be a lot of room to sign the top free agents.
Assuming Bennett really does well this year, we're going to have to pay him quite a bit. So in this sense, we will be happy with less cap space heading into the 2017 free agency.
Anyways, to get back on topic, this is just another reason to acquire the 3rd overall pick. Puljujarvi will already be a decent player by 2017-2018, yet he'll still be on that entry level deal. That would give us more room cap-wise.