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Originally Posted by MarkGio
This is what I don't understand. The Flames aren't cap strapped, so why ask a poor team to retain and pay the necessary premium. For two seasons of a measly 1.2 million in savings? Just buy out Stajan and keep a good asset.
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Maybe they have information that Vegas plans to take Stajan, in which case his cap hit disappears entirely.
Maybe they don't want to purchase cap savings now at the expense of a cap hit extending further into the future.
Maybe Arizona
wanted to retain salary to help them stay above the floor during what looks rather like a scorched-earth rebuild. Or at least they did not mind doing so.
And maybe, just maybe, killer_carlson is wrong, and the Flames could not have got Smith straight up (no salary retained) for the draft pick alone.