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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
By all accounts it seems a 5% increase is all but a foregone conclusion. But given how many players need new deals and the quality of these guys needing deals, I don't know if these guys that wait it out will get the streets of gold they expect. If you take your slice early you likely make out quite well. 12 months from now I expect every team is lamenting how close to the cap they are and how hard it is to sign all the players they want to sign.
As much as everyone likes to crap on the Flames nearly every team now has 7 or 8 year commitments to players about to enter their 30's. Cap flexibility is going to get tighter and tighter in coming years.
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It's already extremely difficult to make trades right now and it's only going to get tighter. Treliving clearly didn't do it on purpose but the Flames situation of having 6 key players hit free agency at the same time is not ideal at all as it's hard to envision the Flames coming out of this situation winners when all is said and done as injuries, poor trade deadline market, players waffling on staying, etc are going to likely lead to some of these players leaving for nothing or fetching a mediocre return. Not to mention they will have to replace some of these players somehow and free agency isn't the place you want to do that.