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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Lastly, I’m not even sure why you’re using Tampa as an example. They won 2 straight Stanley Cups! The Flames in comparison missed the playoffs last season. Of course Tampa lost players, just like Chicago did, because this league is cyclical. Success costs you more money because other teams will want your players, it’s basic supply and demand.
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Tampa is just one of 16 teams that are over the cap this season.
Half the league is in cap jail and relying on either LTIR or ‘non-roster players’ to remain compliant. And they all want to shed salary – which is why the only significant hockey trade this season involved players on LTIR.
How many of those 16 teams won two straight Stanley Cups the last two seasons? I'll let you figure it out.
Teams aren't having cap trouble because the league is cyclical. They're having cap trouble because two straight years of a global pandemic have thrown everyone's projections out of whack, and the league has frozen the cap at pre-pandemic levels. It's happening to everybody.
But hey, clearly it's only the unique incompetence of Brad Treliving, the Dumbest Man in the Universe, that put the Flames and only the Flames in the same boat as everyone else. Yup, an unusually dim houseplant could do a better job of navigating the crisis that has the whole league in trouble.