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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
+1 for the correct math, -1 for 'who cares how much they're paid'.
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Well I mean as long as they're worth those salaries then why are we singling them out? Backlund and Ryan are worth what they're paid so why do we care about those numbers in comparison to the less valuable players on the team? Being able to run four excellent centres deep is an asset and we shouldn't be assigning arbitrary "ideal values" for the salary of a fourth-line centre. You can do that, but then you'd likely get a guy who's way worse than Derek Ryan. The salaries that we need to actually care about are the ones that can be cut to actively put the team in a better spot. Cutting Backlund and Ryan from the team makes the Flames worse, but do the Flames really need to be paying millions to replacement-level players like Stone, Czarnik, and Jankowski? Probably not. Those are the salaries that need to be cared about more.