The contract by itself is not necessarily a bad deal. The fact that the Flames have locked up this group of players with so little positive results is sort of like running up the surrender flag.
The Core has been here for the last 3 seasons: Monahan, Gio, Backlund, Brodie, Hamilton, Frolik... now this same group who had the highlight of a winning streak of 10 games last year and 7 games this year. They were overmatched in the playoffs last year and are about 50/50 to sneak into the playoffs this year.
These "good" contracts will account for 40 M of cap space in 2019-20
Add in good contacts of Stone and Hamonic and that moves to 47.3 and add Brouwers bad contract of 4.5 and the Flames have 52.8 of cap space locked up with these 9 contracts.
How the heck will this team show better results than they have had this year?
This year they have been virtually injury free with Frolik being the only significant player missing for 12 games.
Tkachuk and Jankowski and Ferland have outperformed their contracts by a significant margin. The stop gap goalie has been great.
How does this core win??
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