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Originally Posted by Igottago
Nice spin. He took a perennial playoff team and sank them, missing every year.
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How is this for a spin?
The Flames 4th highest paid forward at the start of that year was Rene Bourque who made 1.6M. That’s right the 4th highest paid forward.
Sutter let 39 goals and 82pts of Cammalleri walk that summer because he wanted to spend all that money on the Blueline with the addition of Bouwmeester. Bertuzzi was also not replaced and he provided reasonable secondary scoring the previous year.
Iginla, Jokinen, Langkow and then a bunch of Guyana getting paid 4th line money.
Not surprisingly that team finished in top 5 GAA and bottom 3 in goals scored. Sutter went out and got Stajan, Hagman, Kotalik, Higgins to provide offense.