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Originally Posted by FleeceGang
As mentioned in the trade rumours thread if the Flames trade Kadri, Andersson, and Coleman for prospects and picks with limited salary coming back the team will struggle to hit the cap floor in the coming years. Securing a guy like nurse  will help us stay above that line for the next four seasons and also reduce how many bad UFA overpaid contracts we sign. Regardless of this hypothetical trade Flames will have to take on bad contracts in some of the trades we make this year.
The sentiment around here is that we fill the roster with the recent draft picks and journeymen AHLers. That means going forward the Flames need to take on a few boat anchor contracts to balance out the ELCs/$1mil contracts that first year NHLers are paid to, again, reach that cap floor. Cap is projected to be $113.5mil in the 27/28 season. Nurse's $9.25 will only capture 8% of that so will be easier to stomach as the years go on.
Added benefit is that Nurse is bad and will help the tank/accumulation of high picks.
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There seems to be quite a contingent of posters who seem to think that won't be the case because the Flames will eat a pile of dead duck salaries. Personally, I can't see that happening, and yesterday while driving to Kelowna I heard guys on 960 (Marchesi, Gazdic and Kelly?) saying that if the Flames trade off vets they will need to pick up young roster players as well as picks. That's my feeling too, as all picks seems like pushing everything WAY too far forward for the fan base (and probably ownership?). And, as we've been told, Edwards will, but doesn't like to, pay people not to work (but we all remember Darryl...right?).