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Originally Posted by butterfly
I wonder how Arizona got TWENTY picks in the top three rounds for the next three years. They must have had a lot of talented players to trade. Or there actually are a lot of deals like that.
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Most of the deals like that were, in fact, deals that Arizona made. They were the only team in such dire financial straits that they had to worry about meeting the cap floor. So they sold off every older player that anyone would take, and took on cap dumps from other teams where the player's remaining salary was substantially less than his cap hit. That allowed them to stay above the floor without actually spending that much money.
The price of all this is that they completely ruined their team and drove away what few fans they had. Is that a tradeoff you think the Flames should accept?