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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I’m just commenting on how lucky they are. But most good teams have to pay their top guys top money. TB carries a lot of salary at the top end.
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If you disbanded the team this off-season and each player signed at "fair market" UFA values for a year, it should be easy to see why Tampa is as good as they are.
Hedman is easily a 11M+ defenseman being paid 7.8M. Stamkos is a 10M+ forward being paid 8.5M. Point a 10M forward being paid 6.75M. Sergachev is making 4.8M, even Kucherov would be making notably more.
If Gaudreau signs for well under 10M, okay, absolutely the Flames have a chance to build around him.
But really the Flames main "savings" come from Lindholm, and of the two years left on that contract, one of them sees the Flames paying Monahan and Lucic 11M.