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Originally Posted by robaur

Spoiler!

You know whats incredibly funny to me....

Okposo signed a $6M AAV contract to play with the Sabres....lets say you had to outbid them by $0.25M to try to get him to come to CGY......

Brouwer @ $4.5M or Okposo @ $6.25M...and he was 28 when he signed his contract.

BandAid fixes don't work. Trying to get a "deal" doesn't work. Paying for value doesn't work.

Either the player is a good player or he's not. Treliving should have paid the extra $1.75M to get a good player that can score 25 goals and get you 60 points and legitimately play Top line RW and PP1.

Spoiler!

Instead, they tried to save that money and ended up WASTING $4.5m per season. It's literally so stupid.....

Monahan-Gaudreau-Okposo
Tkachuk-Backlund-Frolik
Versteeg-Bennett-Jagr
Ferland-Jankowski-Lazar

Stajan in press box.

I don't mind overpaying players on $$$ OR term length...but ATLEAST MAKE SURE that the player can ####ing play and will deliver the points. I can live with a 60 point player overpaid by $1m if I have to.....it's impossible to swallow a $4.5m blackhole sitting on your roster wasting away. its a double-whammy. not only did you not make your team better....you also wasted that valuable cap space.....

THAT would be our roster today. What an incredible miss by management.

We didn't have the extra $1.75M to spend last season! If I remember correctly neither of Gaudreau or Monahan were signed by the deadline. In addition, Smid was not a sure thing to go on LTIR either. Remember the reason why Wideman had to be our #4D last year to start, because of the cap crunch. That is also the reason the Flames went after Elliott and his $2.5M cap hit. In the end it is not all as simple as you make it out to be. Eventually the numbers probably would've worked out, though you would've had a higher bonus overage carryover for this season as well.