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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
If you sign them to short term contracts Craig will be forced to go out and spend big bucks on free agency this summer and next. Assuming the cap floor is 68 million bucks next year the Flames currently only have about 51 million in salaries. If they are not getting to the cap floor with the RFAs they will need to go hand out some big contracts to UFAs to get there.
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I don’t think he’s going to have a choice with free agents since the Flames have a relatively young and unproven roster as well as some gaps. If they ship out more vets at the deadline the problem will get worse. Don’t think they will be able to completely get away from free agents.