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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Lots of people throwing Valimaki into trades as an addin. Keep in mind that if we do, Kylington becomes our 4th best defenseman.
We are staring at the worst D in the league with no cap to do anything about it (after acquiring Eichel)
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So as of right now the Flames have $18.625M in projected cap space.
If the trade is my proposed one above (Monahan + Valimaki for roster players), then it's just a swap of Monahan's $6.375M for Eichel's $10M.
So we'd have $15M in cap space with:
Gaudreau - Eichel - Tkachuk
_____ - Lindholm - Mangi
_____ - Backlund - Pitlick
Lucic - Froese - Ritchie
Hanifin - Tanev
Andersson - _____
_____ - _____
Markstrom
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$15M to sign RFAs: Dube, Gawdin, Kylington, Mackey, then fill out the roster with UFAs and/or prospects like Zary/Pelletier/Ruzicka
Stone is another cheap RD option after a surprisingly good showing last season. Dube is probably $1.5-$2M?