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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
The Flames are far from a young unproven roster. We are led by 30 plus players. We have integrated 3 young players this year.
If we trade vets those holes aren’t being filled by going to free agency and singing worse contracts for old players. They will fill the gaps with our own players. Craig has said we won’t be a player in free agency for a while and it won’t be much either when we are.
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But if you are trading away $5-7 million vets I don’t see any youngsters ready for that kind of contract. They are going to have to make up the $$ somewhere to meet the cap floor. I think math is going to force some veteran contracts into the mix. Which I guess creates the debate of why not just keep your own vets if you are happy with them and they want to stay for a reasonable number and term.