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Originally Posted by TheoFleury

They could've allocated funds differently. Didn't matter though, because they never had the right mix to begin with. They still managed to spend the same money on worse players. Iginla's $7m didn't stop them from doing anything, but bad trades, bad contracts and bad drafting sure did.

Whether Gaudreau is the highest paid player on the team or not has no bearing on how successful this team can be if the pieces that are already here continue to develop. Stop wasting money on pluggers and there won't be cap problems. The Flames are historically their own worst enemy when it comes to their cap situation, and it's never been because they've their paid great players too much. It's because they seem to have an insatiable desire to possess a collection of overpaid depth players. This has been a fault for each of the Sutter, Feaster and Treliving regimes IMO.

Exactly.