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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
You can't bank cap space during rebuilding years in order to use during contending years. The amount of money the Flames spend during the rebuild vs the contending years is irrelevant.
Far too much overanalysis of our cap situation. We're losing Wideman's 5+ million, Engelland's almost 6, Smid's 3.5 after this season.
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Except that some of our cap space is tied up long term in veterans like Giordano and Brower whose best years will occur when team is. It able to contend. Yeah Flames have contracts coming off the books like most teams.
But no goalies signed for next year.
And no obvious replacements in the system for all the defensemen we are losing.
And raises due to a few players.
The cap space we did have was used up in part by signing certain players to LT deals. Wish we had found a way to turn that space into taking on bad ST contracts from contending teams in exchange for assets.
But whatever. Zero cap space to do anything this year. We'll see what he does next year.