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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The reason the Flames are in cap trouble is James Neal. And if you look at comparables, those other guys are actually playing at their contracts, and have exceeded them in the majority of the term. You really can’t take a multi-year contract and isolate a year - that’s really unfair.
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The only timeframe that matters as far as the cap situation is today and forward. I don't know what you mean by fair, that's really not the point.
You can't possibly believe Monahan is playing like a $6.3 million player right now? On pace for 17 goals, and he is not anything close to a shutdown guy. Maybe he can rebound sure. But just because you can find another underperforming player in that salary range in the league, that doesn't mean Monahan is delivering on his contract. You don't have to look too hard to find dozens of forwards outproducing him for far less money either.
You can say with certainty that Rasmus will live up to his contract. Personally I can't. I'm sure we can both agree he hasn't this year. Gio's contract may have value over the life of it, but pretty clear we are at the point where that value is in the past.
I'm not even sure what you're arguing here. The Flames are a cap team and they are at the bottom of the standings. Is it not a given they don't have enough guys living up to their AAV? Right now, they are likely very close to the bottom of the league for getting value for money. That is not all James Neal. You stated in another thread that Lucic rarely has bad games so do you even think that contract is so bad? I do, but I don't think Falmes are a better $5 million player away from contending either.
Of course you can predict guys will bounce back, or continue to progress. Those are predictions though. And you can defend Treliving's approach to each of his deals all day long. That's not the intent of my post. If the player's performance doesn't change from what we've seen this year, the cap issue remains.
We do have Rittich, Ryan and Bennett coming off the books. Can they be replaced by better players for less money? That would be great if they could.