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Originally Posted by New Era
Flames can't afford to dip into the free agent market this year. They still have too many problem contracts on the lower lines and defense eating up money. Would love to see a body added that cod make a difference, but I don't see it being feasible until Wideman, Smid, Engelland, Raymond, and Stajan are off the books. That's almost $18M in salaries for players that have little positive impact on the team. Move that, then you can go shopping.
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Ya these boat anchor contracts are really hurting us but the positive thing about them is most of them end within a year or two.
Hudler, Jones, Colborne, Russell, Jooris, Ramo, Hiller next year.
Wideman, Smid, Engelland, Bollig, Raymond the following year.
Once we can replace a lot of this dead weight I really think the team will start moving in the direction we want. In the mean time we do what we can. Add a top prospect in the draft this year and see if we can make a signing or two or a trade or two. I still think the team is in a very good position moving forward. If we can have a couple prospects step up in that time frame as well I think the team will start really rounding out nicely. If we all expected a 5 year rebuild to be respectable and start making our ascent maybe that's what were exactly on line for.
