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View Poll Results: What has camp done to your expectations of the season?
Improved them, team is going to make noise 5 1.83%
Hasn't changed them at all, still heading for the bottom 202 73.99%
Hasn't changed them at all, Flames set to improve this year 50 18.32%
Hammered them, this team can't score! 16 5.86%
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Old 10-07-2014, 03:06 PM   #61
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The Flames have the lowest payroll in the league.

Which players will outplay their cap hits:

1) Monahan
2) Gaudreau
3) Backlund
4) Glencross

That is the whole list of players that I expect to be better than their cap hit.
I also don't think Colborne outperforming his whopper of a $1,2M contract would be expecting that much, let alone Byron and his 600k contract.

Speaking more generally this is one of those seemingly numbers-based arguments that really is just a way of saying "I think our team sucks". "Better than their contracts" is a completely arbitrary measuring stick.

It's also a meaningless point. Even if every single player is slighty "better than their contracts", we would still be a piss-poor team. But if, say, Gaudreau and Monahan suddenly combine for 150 points, we'll go up the standings like a rocket.
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Old 10-07-2014, 03:09 PM   #62
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Its going to be a hard working team that has trouble scoring and is likely heading to the bottom of the West.

My Sig says it all and thats all I expect.

If teams want two points out of the Calgary Flames then they're going to have to bleed to do it, but they'll likely get them.
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