I think it is honestly just as simple as the flat cap.
Even bottom feeder teams have minimal salary cap space to work with.
Every trade needs to essentially be money in = money out which makes trading much more difficult.
It's hilariously depressing how the Flames always seem to suffer from terrible timing. They have so many key assets that they need to make decisions on but the stagnant trade market has teams offering low ball offers so we are stuck holding onto them for now until things loosen up.
I just hope Conroy sticks to his word and doesn't let key assets walk for nothing come next offseason. Even if we are in a playoff spot we can't continue down this road of poor asset management.
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