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Originally Posted by New Era
It does look really tight at first glance using your numbers. Bennett will cost less than $3M. Rittich will be around the same if they want to move forward with him. A veteran backup should be available for $1M. That leaves $6M for Tkachuk and nothing for anyone else. Thing is the Flames can move Frolik ($4.3M) and Brodie ($4.65M) to free up space. So now you have an additional $10M to play with. That is why it is so important to have a pipeline of good young players to step in and take positions from expensive mid-level players. Sky isn’t falling as bad as you portray for the budget or situation for next season. Downstream we run into some interesting challenges as our prospect pool is very thin and needs restocking.
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Moving Brodie makes the Flame top priority finding a top-4 d-man that puts up 28 non-pp points and works really well with Gio. Remember Gio's last year where he was Partnered with Hamilton??
The veteran back up for 1M ??? Elliot coming off an epic playoff fail goes for 2.75.
Is the plan to go with Smith for 1M? Because that is what you get for 1M.