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Originally Posted by home_sweet_dome
Turn your Flames goggles off and look at it from Montreal's perspective. They made 2 trades with the Flames in the same year. Net result for them is:
Monahan + Heineman + 2 1sts in, Toffoli out.
Monahan's contract has a cap hit that is $$2.125M more than Toffoli's.
Kadri isn't part of the equation for them and frankly the $2.125M cap hit doesn't come close to covering Kadri's cap hit anyways.
They took advantage of a GM overpaying for Toffoli in the 1st trade and desperately trying to create cap space for a free agent signing on the 2nd one and made out like bandits.
Heck Toffoli's only got 3 more points than Monny this year, let alone the 2 1st rounders!!
Whether you consider it as 2 separate wins or 1 combined massive win it really doesn't matter, huge W for them either way.
Again if the Flames did that you'd all call it a massive win.
Anyways there's no point trying to drill this simple logic into you guys anymore so i'm gonna drop it.
Sometimes i think the Flames fan base and inept organization really do deserve each other.
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So you can take advantage of competing teams that are tight against the cap? News flash! Good for them and good for Monahan, but taking on Monahan was definitely a cap dump at the time the trade was made.