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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
I think they need to stagger/spread out contracts to have enough money and time with entry level contracts to be a balanced team in the future. I don't see Conroy making BT or Oiler style mistakes. I think the Flames systems will almost be like a conveyor belt. Or a giant GANTT chart of contract terms and positions, with holes that he will fill operating how he has thus far. The big spending all needs to line up with expiry of contracts like Kadri and Huby, with that money going to Flames developed players, or rescues like Yegor.
Getting Marner would be cool, but I don't see it happening.
If Conroy gets a big name, I still think if will probably come in the form of a productive player on a short contract to help another team with cap relief and is therefore accompanied by some sweetener for the Flames.
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I just wonder because they currently have 53 million for next year in 2 goalies, 4 dmen, 7 forwards. They need to sign Coronato, Zary and Bahl and I would be perfectly fine with them signing those guys to long term contracts that soaks up a decent amount of cap space that probably gets them to the cap floor. The next offseason they have to sign Wolf and hopefully sign him longterm and that will get them to the cap floor. Maybe they sign Pospisil long term too, who knows.
But after that they will have a gap of two years where they won’t have any RFAs of significant consequence unless Honzek pops. Cap will likely be skyrocketing then and it won’t be until the 2028 offseason when they will have to sign any RFAs of consequence to deals that will increase the cap. By then they will have one year left of Kadri and 3 years left of Huberdeau.
I guess I am wondering if Friedman ends up being right and the cap goes up to 110 million by 2028 (with a couple huge bumps coming up) does it make sense for the Flames to sign a guy like Marner, who could be the best forward free agent 28 or younger that will hit the market between now and 2028 when the Flames will have to potentially sign players that hit out of their 2024 draft class.
If the cap jumps as much as Friedman thinks it will teams will not be under the gun as much as in the past to dump expensive contracts. I am also not sure Conroy thinks it is the best path for a rebuild to bring in a bunch of ####ty vets on bad contracts who are just playing out their sunset years.