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Originally Posted by Owen15
Another thing bugging me is everyone throwing around retention like it’s a standard operating procedure.
Do people understand that these are real dollars? If we retain $2 million on Huberdeau for 8 years that $16 million spent? On top of Sutters $8 million? Potentially another $10-12 million on players who will be ufa next year?
I get that when we’re spending other people’s money it’s easy to be flippant about it. However, this is real money. And the people who are wealthy enough to own the flames didn’t get their wealth because they did things that didn’t make financial sense.
If the owners agree to retain I hope it moves the needle and results in a quicker turnaround than other teams rebuilds retools or whatever the description of the day is.
If they do they’ve stepped up yet again to try and make the team better. If they choose not to I wouldn’t blame them. It’s a business and it’s their money.
Doesn’t make them bad. Doesn’t mean they don’t want the Flames to win.
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The thing is ownership has proven they have no problem spending to the cap and have done so for many years now.
However with the current team makeup they're not true contenders and adding mid tier talent to get to the cap won't get them there anyways. It would be much smarter of ownership to recognize this and retain $$ on trades to get better returns which will allow the team to get to a contender stage quicker than to simply spend on player salaries and get the same mediocre results year over year.
Basically still spending the same amount but in a smarter way by retaining money than spending it to max out cap space.