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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Or Hamonic maybe? The draft picks were there to be spent at different times.
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Yes. The point is that it was never just as simple as adding one of those players to the roster.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Given Lehner was an FA twice, it should not have cost us assets to acquire him, though we would have had to shed some salary elsewhere.
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It was emphatically demonstrated this last summer that cap space is rather a very valuable asset. The Flames desperately attempted to shed some in an effort to get Tkachuk under contract long-term, and managed only to move out about a quarter million dollars in the Neal/Lucic deal. Theoretically they
could have merely paid Lehner, but not would then have been impossible to sign Tkachuk to ANY plausible deal without a significant movement of more salary out.