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Originally Posted by Wolven
Looking at the UFA group for this year... it would be really hard to make up that much salary in one signing. You would basically need to land Panarin or Laine. Or you go to someone like Schmaltz and seriously overpay them for a year.
The 2027 UFA group looks better, for now, but that will likely change next summer once teams are able to start extending their star players. Odds are you offer Frost a big contract to stay while giving Kuznetsov and Brzustewicz healthy RFA contracts (similar to Bahl).
In a way, it makes sense to trade Kadri with 50% retention (if you can get a team to pay for it). You would have to think that there would be some amazing offers for Kadri at $3.5M considering how good the offers are (supposedly) for getting him at full price.
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They could go to a team like the Knights and maybe take a pick off their hands to take Karlsson or something off their hands, but either way the Flames need to add payroll to make the cap floor if they move out Kadri and Coleman this year.