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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Why not? I have to disagree.
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Because he's not a player a team is going to go out of their way to acquire.
Good stats with Backlund/Tkachuk but a steep drop off without them. Cap, age, skill combination suggests he's a bottom 6 player.
While his salary is less than his cap, he's still not exactly cheap as a 3rd or 4th line player at ~3 million.
Plus some other team is likely to offer at least as good a player or a significant incentive to take a worse player to get themselves under the cap, so why do Calgary a favour?
There were players as good or better than Frolik available as free agents. Brassard for example just signed for 1.2 and he's only a season removed from scoring 21 goals.
Why give up anything at all for Frolik when you could just sign Pominville or Brian Boyle or Justin Williams or Riley Sheahan or Tomas Vanek etc etc to a 1 year deal for less salary and way less cap?
Frolik also has a no trade clause which I have to believe is causing an issue right now as well. So you're dealing with a pool of 20 teams, and those 20 teams have to both want the player and have the 4 million in capspace available to take him on. There are maybe 2 teams that hit all those categories. If Frolik has been strategic about his no trade clause and given the team a list of the 10 teams with the most capspace, the Flames may be proverbially ####ed on that one.
It's a buyers market.