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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Yeah I get what you're driving at, and from our point of view it certainly does look like another hole is being opened up. That's kind of why I said earlier that it depends on the opinion of Flames management on Valimaki. If they believe he's going to slide into a top 4 role right away because of what they're seeing then they have to weight that risk against keeping Hanifin and then skimping out on the 4th line and goaltending because they can't afford to upgrade those areas if they dont move Hanifin.
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I don't think it matters regardless because we aren't going to sign both Pietrangelo and Markstrom. But if that miracle occurs, we can deal with the cap implications afterwards and figure it out then.
Also, this was using 9.5m and 5.5m for those players. It's been suggested that Petro would take a lesser cap hit for more money up front; and even then that is also 250k above his rumored asking price in STL. I'm also not sold on Markstrom getting more than the rumored 5m Lehner is getting.
Using my previous scenario, if we trade Ryan and can sign Markstrom for 5 instead of 5.5 and Pietrangelo for a front-loaded 8.5 instead of 9.5, we could go after someone like Dell for 1.5m and add that extra forward