Quote:
Originally Posted by Phagoof
probably 8 or 8.5. Flames have a ton of salary coming off the books after next year and the cap is probably going to keep going up.
I'd assume if he wants to play here he'd take a 1-1.5m paycut to play in his home town on a cup contender.
Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Hall-Backlund-Tkachuk
Bennett-Dube-Neal
Mangiapane-Jankowski-Ryan
That is a scary forward line-up. Best in the league? Only comparable would be Tampa.
|
OK I'll bite. 'Ton of salary coming off the books' isn't quite accurate. If bad only bad contracts expire that is wonderful, but we unfortunately have many more good contracts that are expiring after next year.
Although there are multiple expiring contracts, many are on very good deals (Kylington 0.7m, Andersson 0.8m, Hamonic 3.9m). Personally I include Brodie's 4.6m in the 'very good deal' territory for what he provides, but I don't want this conversation to go sideways on that opinion alone. In addition, expiring contracts like Jankowski's 1.7m and Czarnik's 1.3m are not going to be replaced by many cheaper options, and could quite easily become more expensive to re-sign by next summer.
Stone's 3.5m and Frolik's 4.3m are the two main 'bad' contracts (given their current performance) that will be coming off the books. They aren't horrendous contracts in the big picture, and are likely to be replaced by players earning the same amount.
There's no big reprieve of albatross contracts coming up. We're a good team and with that means that there will be good young players coming up who will deserve to get paid like Tkachuk and likely the defencemen.
Finally, who the heck knows what Hall will sign for and after his experience in Edmonton I wouldn't be surprised if he never wants to return to Alberta for hockey, let alone take a discount.