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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
It's funny that people are lamenting cap space, but overlook Lucic's $5.25M salary while playing on the 3rd/4th line. Here is potential found money. He's only owed a million in real salary as he receives the majority ($3M) in signing bonus come July. Flames could encourage his retirement in the summer and offer him a role within the organization ( I see him as a future coach), freeing up $5.25M in cap space. This would be a smart move by the team and free up some much needed room to retain a contract with term brought in at the trade deadline.
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Well, it’s cap circumvention. If they were San Jose or LA maybe they get away with it.
Or Lucic could go on LTIR and also go to work for the league like Pronger IIRC.