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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Adding Rossi and Byram and paying them ~combined 15-16 million a season for Kadri and Rasmus seems like a perfect way to stay in the 10-8th range in the conference with little cap flexibility going forward
Seems exactly what the Flames will try to do
Hate it. You aren’t winning anything with Center depth of Rossi , Frost , whoever
I guess you could (in theory) flip these players instead of building around them as they have less trade protection and control.
But if the plan is to have a new core of Rossi , weegar , Huberdeau , Frost , Cornato , Shags , Bahl , and hopefully Parekh I’m not sure what to think other then it’s going to be a painful next 3 years waiting (hoping) our mid/low first and 2nd rounders develop into a proper core .
It would be the one of the most expensive no star lineup in NHL history !
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How can you guarantee this though? I show that the Flames will have $20 to 40 mil cap space each off season before Parekh's ELC is up. If you trade Ras and Kadri for Rossi and Byram, we would be trading $11.5 mil out. This is with signing Byram and Rossi to $8 mil each, it could be less.
Kadri was as good as any Flame last year. There are reasons why cup contenders want him, he's better now than most centers on cup contending teams. Losing him for Rossi and losing Ras for Byram makes this team worse in year 1 IMO. This team also was projected to be terrible going into the season and overachieved. Make these moves and who knows where we end up, but I just don't see how anyone can predict how it will go within a 5 point range and be so sure that they would put money on it.
2 23-year-olds, new team, new system, big contract often leads to bad 1st season too. I could see the team getting a top pick if they made these moves. Can't guarantee it like you can, but I think it could happen. Slow start, sell of Coleman and a few others at the deadline and you can get your top pick. It's not 100% out of the question.