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Originally Posted by monkeyman
And after all that hard work Feaster did of shedding our team of all those high salaries and older players, BT under the BB era decided to sign/trade for;
Mason Raymond 28
Brandon Bollig 27
Jonas Hiller 32
Brian Elliot 31
Chris Versteeg 30
Niklas Backstrom 37
Troy Brouwer 31
And our payroll went from 56 million to 73 million.
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OK and? Are you saying that teams shouldn't have any older players?
Let's go down that list, by the way, and assess just how good those acquisitions were.
Raymond -- decent first year, injured, never looked the same. It was still a reasonable signing at the time
Bollig -- yeah, no
Hiller -- great first year, putrid second year. Again, another reasonable contract
Elliott -- fine regular season, awful playoff. Another reasonable trade.
Versteeg -- great first year, injury-plagued second year. Cheap both years, great signing.
Backstrom -- who cares? He played four games here and was purely acquired to equate salary in the Jones deal.
Brouwer -- iffy. He's an okay penalty killer but otherwise, yeah, probably overpaid by $2.5-3 million.
I don't see why paying money for players is a bad thing. Do you want the Flames to be like Florida or Carolina? And objectively speaking, Versteeg, Hiller, Elliott, and maybe even Raymond were
good acquisitions. You're not even including Frolik or Stone or Hamonic or Smith or Shore, more objectively good players who Treliving has acquired.