[Trade] Blues trade Matt D'Agostni and 7th to NJ for a conditional 4th

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Flames won't be buying out anyone

so they are going to go with exactly the same guys as this year minus Iginla and replacing him with Jones or Horak?

The Flames have 13 guys under contract for next year at a cap hit of 47M.

11 guys needed for $17M

10 guys needed with Baertschi back up for 15.5 M

If they qualify Butler (1.4) and Backlund (800K) and Brodie 1M 7 guys for 12.3.

so you have the same team and need to replace cervenka, Babchuck, BU goalie, Comeau, Begin and McGratton AND Iginla for 12.3 M....


AND you want a team that is better than 27th in the NHL???!!!


The other teams that might want to take Bouwmeester's contract off our hands are likely in worse shape as they have young guys they would like to keep and deserve raises.


The Arithmetic dictates that the Flames will be buying someone out.....


Other teams know this and will be offering their mistakes or 2nd tier players to take Bouwmeester off the Flames books.

Right now the Flames would be in better shape if they got St.L 2nd and D'agistino for Bouwmeester. That is the kind of trade that Feaster is going to have to pull the trigger on.

Cammalleri and Bouwmeester are by far the most overpaid Flames for what they bring.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Flames won't be buying out anyone

Oh I think we'll buy a few people out... but yeah not any of the silly names that people throw out like Bouwmeester/Cammalleri. The flames roster right now is at $64,328,956 so the team has to drop less then 400K for cap compliance between this year and next. Just letting Babchuk walk and deciding to not spend 2M+ on a 7-8 defenseman replacement more then takes care of that.

I do think that the Flames end up buying people out... If I were to take a guess I'd say Sarich (what a awful contract that was) and maybe Kiprusoff to avoid the frontloaded cap penalty (If he indicates that he intends to retire).

The team won't be forced to offload any significantly sized contracts due to cap pressure.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

so you have the same team and need to replace cervenka, Babchuck, BU goalie, Comeau, Begin and McGratton AND Iginla for 12.3 M....

Considering that those guys are press-box, press-box, Back-up goalie, 4th liner, 4th liner, 4th liner and Iginla I think replacing it with 12.3 M is pretty easy strictly in terms of finances.

[kyuss275]

I'm with "parallex" they won't buy out any of the big names. They still have value, maybe not as much as we like, but value none the less.

Sarich will be the player bought out if anybody is bought out.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

they won't buy out any of the big names.

I don't think that very many teams are going to be buying out many big names at all. There are only 7 teams that are currently more then 1M dollars over what next years cap will be. That's Philly, Vancouver, Rangers, Wild, Sharks, Hawks, and Habs... everyone else is pretty much at or below what the ceiling will be next year.

The only buyouts I think I think we'll see from anyone else are with guys for whom the contract is almost entirely a valueless sunk cost.

Edit: http://www.capgeek.com/payrolls/?charts_year=2013

[Roof-Daddy]

I see ricradodw is off his meds again.