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Just as the title says.
With the Canadian dollar reaching lows not seen in a decade and as the salary cap is tied to the salary cap, are the Flames and their salary-floor team in an excellent position to buy picks by cap-ceiling teams looking to offload heavy contracts?
Bettman recently implied that if the Canadian dollar reached ~80 cents, the cap for 2016 would be around 70m. It's now at 78 cents, implying a cap of around 68-79m and could fall even further down to the low to mid 70's.
The Flames currently have around 12m in cap space available if I recall correctly.
Would you be okay with seeing the team pick up a couple of shorter-term (4 years or less) 4m contracts (preferably defence) from other teams with a boom-bust potential prospect or a pick in the 2/3rd round coming back?
With the Canadian dollar reaching lows not seen in a decade and as the salary cap is tied to the salary cap, are the Flames and their salary-floor team in an excellent position to buy picks by cap-ceiling teams looking to offload heavy contracts?
Bettman recently implied that if the Canadian dollar reached ~80 cents, the cap for 2016 would be around 70m. It's now at 78 cents, implying a cap of around 68-79m and could fall even further down to the low to mid 70's.
The Flames currently have around 12m in cap space available if I recall correctly.
Would you be okay with seeing the team pick up a couple of shorter-term (4 years or less) 4m contracts (preferably defence) from other teams with a boom-bust potential prospect or a pick in the 2/3rd round coming back?
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