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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Does that really help the Flames even in those 3 years? The $2 million in cap savings will be spent on a Lucic replacement. Maybe you save $500K there.
Guess you have to believe OEL is an upgrade over Hanifin which maybe he is. But man, you screw yourself three years out when Lucic would have been off your books.
I can kind of see this happening actually. Mortgage the future for a slight upgrade now.
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Yes, you would do it because you believe OEL is an upgrade on Hanifin for the first 3 years (plus some salary cap savings), knowing that you are going to lose the last 3 or 4 years.
You also have to assume that you can upgrade on Lucic with that $2m. So, say you spend it on Virtanen... you end up with OEL and Virtanen for Hanifin and Lucic.
Debatable, but if you are an OEL fan, that looks pretty good.