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Originally Posted by Fan69
Which is exactly why he should be a target. Big under 25 center has scored nearly thirty. Get him out of that loser organization with some better coaching no reason he shouldnt improve. Would he have the immediate impact peterson would? No. However, cost long term as well as short term, i dont see conroy forking out vans price unless Anderson is involved or one of our other long term contracts is involved. Kadri, sharky or Coleman or huby. Cap implications have to be a consideration. Or we end up being stacked top line without much money for anything else.
I dont see peterson coming here unless one of our long term contracts goes out so im not sure a deal can be had here.
However if you could swing a deal for both?
Anderson/sharky/kadri, basha/battaglia/stromgren + for peterson. Depends on the plus would not want to give up firsts maybe a gridin or suniev instead.
Cozens for Anderson batteglia/ basha or a first instead? Those are the types of prices we would be looking at as i see it
Center depth
Peterson
Kadri
Cozens
Zary
Backs
Kerins
If cozens becomes a middle six top six thats the kind of center depth this team has never had.
Maybe?
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The Flames do not have any real cap considerations anytime soon. Assuming the cap goes up by 6 million a year after next year this is what their cap situation looks.
25/26 - cap 92.5 million, currently have 51.5 million in salary for 13 players. 40 million in cap space for 10 players. Young players to sign for the next season - Zary, Coronato, Pelletier
26/27 - cap 98.5 million, 35.6 million in salary for 6 players (plus whatever Coronato, Zary, Pelletier cost). Young players to sign - Wolf, Pospisil. Cap space would be 62.9 million dollars for 17 players including Coronato, Zary, Pelletier)
27/28 - cap 104.5 million. Only young players to sign is Honzek. Boatloads of cap room.
28/29 would be the earliest they would have to sign anyone from the 2024 draft class.
In all likelihood 29/30 is the earliest they would have to sign anyone from the 2025 draft class and maybe a guy from the 2026 draft class if that player makes the NHL in their 18 year old year.
By 2030 the only contracts that will be left on the books is one more year of Huberdeau and one more year of Weegar. The Flames problem in the next 3-5 years, barring a crazy UFA spending spree will be to reach the cap floor. Even if they added a big contract like Pettersson it is highly unlikely that they will ever get into cap trouble this decade. They actually just don’t have anyone they need to sign that they won’t be able to sign to whatever term they want because they have so much cap space.