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Originally Posted by New Era
I appreciate your run at this but I think you grossly underestimate the salaries of players, especially Monahan and Bennett.
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Add 2M to each, the team is still well under the cap. And that's with Jokipakka making 3M...Beyond this season, there's simply no issue with fitting Bobrovosky under the cap.
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Originally Posted by New Era
You are also looking at a one year window, not considering the long term ramifications of contracts.
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The following season you have Stajan and Bouma contracts off the books if you need it. The following season Bobrovsky is gone.
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Originally Posted by New Era
It would be exceptionally difficult to fit Bob's salary on this team THIS year, let alone in the future.
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There's 0 reason Jooris and Ortio are making that much at all. I think 14M is on the high end for the duo, at 13M it becomes relatively simple to be cap compliant without having to get creative (assuming Smid goes on LTIR). If the duo did command 14M, simply buying out Raymond would be enough to remain cap compliant. Other options exists as well, retained salary transactions for players like Stajan, Wideman or Engelland. If it meant getting a starting goaltender and a big RW with the third overall, Treliving would have 0 issues making that room.
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Originally Posted by New Era
You can have only so many expensive salaries on your team at any one time and the Flames appear to have come close to that level.
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You manage to get Poolboy and have Brodie in the mix and our big salaries seem to be spoken for. A big ticket goaltender doesn't seem feasible long term.
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Bobrovsky's contract is over before Puljujarvi or Brodie would be looking to be reupped, so that's a moot point.