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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
It will always be perplexing to me that Treliving refused to pay anything more than "market value" for guys like Gaudreau and Tkachuk which resulted in them signing contracts for less than the 8 year term limit, but on the other hand was perfectly fine carrying Lucic's dead cap hit of $5 million for years.
I still believe just buying out Neal would have served the Flames needs better in the short term and the long run.
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He wasn’t fine carrying Lucic for years, it was the best solution to a bad situation.
The huge cash savings he received in that deal allowed him to spend to the cap, which would otherwise not have been possible.