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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The facts you are arguing about:
1) The Flames are right against the cap with Tkachuk, bennett and Rittich needed to be signed.
2) They can't have the current roster of players and stay under the cap
3) If Hamonic and/or Brodie get traded it can't have any salary coming back or it makes no sense to trade them.
That IMHO is the very definition of a cap dump.
PS. If Brodie and/or Hamonic are not extended they will become UFAs that the Flames can't afford under the cap.
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I am not worried about the cap. If anyone is traded, I think it will be for an asset coming back. IMHO a cap dump is trading a player and not get anything or similar value back (picks or player). Worse if if it costs the team assets to dump (ala Marleau).
Bottom line is that it is 3 days into the 2019-2020 season, there is lots of time left to sort things out. They have around 10M right now, which has them sitting around 20th is cap space. A few teams under them have 3 fewer players signed so I say they aren't in cap hell yet.