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Originally Posted by activeStick
Agreed. I think there's bit of coping happening by some, which I understand since we all hate the Oilers. If you have a top 10 player on your team, you try to keep him and deal with the cap issues afterwards. No doubt it makes it more difficult for them to build a winner with 2 guys eating up that much cap, but it's a tough pill for fans to swallow if you trade them away. We can all relate to trading away a top 10 player and we'd all reverse that deal if we could.
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Reverse that deal and the Flames are still a bad team
If McDavid resigns the Oilers will be very average year 1 let alone year 8. Do the math, look at their prospects. The contracts themselves might not be bad but the team will be.