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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
Looking at Cap Friendly, there is now just over 7 million to get Tkachuk and Mangiapane signed...let alone any of the PTOs. How is this supposed to work?
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They obviously need to move someone, or a couple players. When Valimaki's LTIR kicks in the Flames will have $7,950,791. They currently have 12 forwards on the roster accounting for cap, so when Mangiapane and Tkachuk sign one forward will be assigned to the AHL. Suppose that player is Czarnik—of whom (I believe) the Flames can bury $1.0 m of his cap hit. He essentially would be replaced, then, by Mangiapane with almost no cap increase. If Tkachuk comes in under $8.5 m, then there really only needs to be a small trade or two. If the Flames traded Frolik and retained $2.0 m of his salary, that would do it.
We will see what happens, but the Flames are not without options, and the situation is not (yet) as dire as it can appear on CapFriendly .