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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
If more than one team is interested in him, that will jack up the price. Oh goody. Perhaps this should have been solved within that last seven days, but I'm not a GM so I don't have a qualified opinion.
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According to Cap Friendly the Flames have $5.2 million in cap space, but it doesn't count a #7th defenseman or a #13th forward. Plus it doesn't include Jankowski, but does include F. Hamilton. Subtract 0.31 off the cap space when swapping in Jankowski over Hamilton. Add Kulak and Hathaway/Glass as the 7th and 13th forward. That takes $1.3 million off the cap space.
Now they have $3.59 in cap space left. Remove $1 million for ELC bonuses (Tkachuk is probably a sure bet on obtaining that). Jankowski has a chance but let's not consider him.
The Flames can only really offer Jagr around $2.5 million without risking to go over the cap because of ELC bonuses. If they don't care about reducing the cap for next season then they can go to about $3.5 million but it would be very tight.