The Flames were trying to resign their FAs until game 15. They wanted to compete this year
If they didn’t have Hubby they would have spent 10 million on other UFAs this offseason. They weren’t going to be taking on bad contracts this past offseason because they weren’t planning to rebuild
Hubby is actually good for the rebuild this year and next - he is preventing management from improving the team!
The next offseason the Flames will have tons of cap space if they want to take on bad contracts and commit to a real rebuild . I don’t think they will - but Hubby won’t prevent that
It will be horrible in 3-5 years when (hopefully) this team is ready to compete and he would be a giant black hole - but that’s a problem for years from now
The worse part of Hubby on the Flames is they may actually be in a good spot playoff wise if they had a superstar for 10 million vs a plug
|