[Ford Prefect]

I think the issue with making you goalie your top paid player is two-fold. One, it leaves pretty much zero budget for a competent backup, which leads to your star starter playing too many games. And two, it also eats up too much cap at the cost of icing a solid defensive team in front of your star goalie.

Looking at the Flames roster, we have Rittich, Talbot and any one of our D-men other than Gio for the cost of Price/Bobro/Vasilevskiy (next year). So overpaying your starter causes load management and roster composition problems that aren’t conducive to winning in the salary cap era.