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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Thank you for this.
And knowing this, I think the strategy should be to get guys signed to long term deals. Kadri is expensive at $7M, but if the cap goes up by 5% per year, it looks a lot less painful in 3 years.
$7M is 8.4% of next year's cap, then 8.0% in 24/25, then 7.6% in 25/26 (that is the equivalent of $6.25M this year)
The same declining ratios would apply for Lindholm (and everyone else, obviously). The contracts that look expensive now, are going to look good in a few years. We are already starting to see some players take short term deals so that they can get paid big in 2 or 3 years, and I'll bet we see more and more players doing this.
Get in front of it and sign Lindholm right now.
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Yup, and the Flames have the advantage of all these deals expiring next season, so they have one more "cheap" year when the cap is still being held down and any new deals will kick in after the cap has a 5% jump (not guaranteed, but barring another catastrophe, very likely).