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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
It's weird seeing as we're fans of a team that benefited from Carolina's reluctance to spend when we got Hanifin and Lindholm despite the team still having a ton of cap space.
Sure, maybe if Bobby Orr said he would come out of retirement the Hurricanes might be able to get Dundon to spend to (or beyond given Aho's cap to salary discrepency) the cap but I think it's safe to assume that a team that has been spending 50M-60M these last several years intended to spend around that amount. The idea that they would now be happy to spend 85M along with another 10M bonus on July 1, 2020 to Carolina isn't nebulous.
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You're conflating cap hit with actual dollars.
The team might still choose to maintain a lower internal cap, knowing that the actual dollars for this year will be well above that cap, but also knowing that it will be much lower in future years.