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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Your comment on Dube and Mangiapane needing to be on the top-6 on this Flames teams brings back memories of 2009-2010 team that somehow got the cap messed up.
On that team Iginla, Langkow, Bourque, Jokininen Glencross were the top-5
this year teams equivalent: Iginla = Gaudreau, Langkow = Lindholm, Monahan = Jokininen, Bourque= Tkachuk and Backlund= Glencross.
Boyd and Dawes = Mangiapane and Dube.
I remember wanting Dawes and Boyd to succeed and was disappointed that Boyd was not given a "full" chance.
After they were gone it stuck home that their being in the top 6 was a clear sign of a messed up use of the salary cap.
On that Flame team Bouwmester, Regehr, Phanuef/White and Sarich ate up a lot of cap as do Gio, Hanifin, Andersson and Tanev on this year's version.
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Not sure I agree with any of that.
Some coaches load up the lines, some try to balance them out ... it doesn't have a lot to do with the cap as they're already on the roster.
Sutter wants to roll four lines so he balances things out so his fourth line is very good, but his second line is taking a beating for it.
Plus I'd put Dube and Mangiapane in a different conversation than Nigel Dawes or Dustin Boyd.