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Originally Posted by Niemo
The Flames need to be able to make the playoffs without sweating if they were to hide their top player on LTIR..........There will be no playoffs for Eichel to return to.
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That could be true, but the flames could bring in other talent using the added cap space if giordano is claimed by Seattle. This could help the team improve enough to be a playoff team. I look at it this way: the flames are/have been a bubble playoff team for the last few years and I believe they still are. Adding another talented player (say someone like Taylor hall for example) could help them solidly a playoff spot. Then eichel joins the team at full health and with lots of rest in April could make the flames a strong playoff team that is $10 million+ over the cap. Or if some high-paid player on the team got injured two months before playoffs, eichel could possibly join the team early.
Again, this is all a moot point since the flames do not have the assets to acquire eichel without sending an established, talented player with salary the other way. This example could probably work better with other teams.
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