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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Doubt he will ever say it. But if the Flames trade Kadri they will have a hell of a time making the cap floor in 27/28. Cap floor will be about 84 million dollars. If they trade Kadri they would have 58.2 million committed for 12 players currently. They would have to sign 11 players for at least 26 million dollars.
Presumably Gridin is on that team and he adds a little under 1 million.
So 25 million for 10 players. Maybe Reschny is on the team so he adds 1 million and they have to sign 9 players for 24 million.
I am guessing they may want to keep Cooley and sign him this offseason or let’s say they sign some other goalie to be the backup. Call that 2.5 million. Now they have to sign 8 players for 21.5 million to make the cap floor.
Let’s say they sign Keirns this offseason for 1.5 million or something and he is on that team, now 7 players for 20 million.
With 7 players left and a mandatory 20 million left to spend the Flames signed roster for 27/28 without Kadri would be:
Huberdeau Reschny Coronato
Sharangovich Backlund Farabee
Zary Popisil Honzek
Gridin X Keirns
X X
Bahl Weegar
X Parekh
X X
X
Wolf
Cooley/backup
Only other Flames that need to be signed that offseason of any import is Hunter B and Kuznetsov. If you assume the 2026 1st round pick will be playing for the Flames in their D+2 year that takes another million off and removes a X and they only have to drop 19 million on 6 players on the UFA market. If they sign Kuznetsov and Hunter B to anything approaching market value for a long term contract (assuming they want to make that length of commitment) they probably still have to spend 11-12 million on 4 players.
Flames will have to spend some big bucks on some vets just to make the cap floor, nearly 25% of their cap floor team would be spent on veteran UFAs that are not currently on the roster if they traded Kadri and Coleman/Rasmus are either traded or walk and sign somewhere else.
These lineups with all these kids are as realistic salary cap wise as a lineup with McDavid, MacKinnon, Draisaitl, Kaprizov, Kucherov, Makar, Quinn Hughes, name your all star. Same way a team cannot go above the cap they cannot go below the floor.
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Bring back Frost at 5m aav, sign a top 4D for 5m, add couple of bottom pair D at 2m each. I think we will be okay.