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Originally Posted by blankall
The Flames will up with about $40 million in cap space. Maybe another $6.5 too, depending on what happens with Backlund and Lomberg.
It's a truly terrifying thought. This team's history with burning cap space when they have it isn't good.
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I am not too worried. The owners let the GM’s run the team they want to run. It is pretty much the only explanation for the night and day difference between how Conroy has ran the team and how Treliving did.
The likelihood that under Treliving that the Flames would enter a season with the second most cap room in the NHL, 10 picks in the first 3 rounds of the next two drafts and have been in a playoff position or on the bubble for the first 34 games of the season and not pulled the trigger on burning that draft capital is zero. Not only has Conroy done that, odds are that he tries to add to the draft capital this season.
If he blows a little money in the offseason I won’t lose much sleep over it. Fact is he might have to just to make the cap floor.