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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I thought most everyone was expecting the Flames to shed salary this summer. Being unable to work out a mutually agreeable long term deal with Tkachuk is why they are under the cap at the start of the season.
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Which is precisely why many people were not panicked about pulling the trigger on a cap-dump deal before the Tkachuk contract was settled. If we had traded Frolik or Brodie in a cap dump we would be a worse team today for little-to-no benefit at all.