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Originally Posted by getoverit
I thought we wanted BJ's to payout big doe forcing them to unload their goalie/Hartnell and their 3rd pic , not that we were going to take a run at Jones?? must be a day late and a dollar short today
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Best of both worlds really. CBJ is in a cap/budget crunch. They need to unload salary to sign Jones and remain under budget. Flames can either take back a bad salary with a quality asset or they can wait and try to get a quality asset with an offer sheet
In my opinion that is kind of what happened with Hamilton. Boston ended up getting a similar return to what they would have got had Hamilton been offer sheeted. I think CBJ is on the same rebuild trajectory as Toronto, right now they are looking to clear salary and start fresh. They are a poorly managed group in terms of the cap and i think their first priority is cleaning that up.