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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Lindholm is up the same summer as Backlund, Tanev, Hanifin etc. there will be room for Lindy in 2 years (cap should also rise at that time)
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Toffoli as well. The Flames are set up very well for 3 years and that might be when all the raises start to really hurt them as well as age.
Drafting and developing is the key though as I doubt they need to replace Lindholm, it's more replacing Backlund, Toffoli and Tanev through the system. IMO what they provide is very good but if you draft well it shouldn't be that hard to replace them.
Hanifin also IMO isn't a must keep in 2 years. If you have extra assets you can always replace a guy like Hanifin via trade for a player who makes less than $8 mil on a short term deal. Buy yourself a year or 2 rather than just fork out $8 mil or so for him
I also think in 3 years $10.5 mil won't be a top 30 cap hit. The Flames still only have 1 player who is over $10 mil and that doesn't kick in until next year.