The Flames are not a cash spending team. They have an internal rule that they can't exceed cash over cap. The cap is to be the cash budget.
In this trade, the flames save around $10M in cash that they can use to front load the Tkachuk contract if needed.
Someone in the Flames org said that Tre & Co. were absolutely ecstatic about this trade for the above reasons, but also called it the B.O.S trade - Bag of $h!t for Bag of $h!t
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