What bugs me about the people complaining that $3.5 million is too much for a bottom pairing D, is that you have to look at the whole picture.
Flames have their top 5 locked in for 3 years now and will pay just shy of $26 million total cap for 7 D-men during this 3 year period. That's not an over payment for a teams D. It's on the high end of the scale, sure...but it should be because on paper it's one of the best all round D groups in the NHL.
$3.5 million might be too much for a bottom pairing Dman if you didn't have Brodie and Hamonic on sweetheart deals, but we do and because of that we can afford a $3.5 million 5th Dman.
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