After the first twenty games of the season so far, it's pretty obvious that the campaign hasn't gone quite as most fans expected yet could have been foreseeable with this being only the third year of the rebuild. The Flames have a few stars with expiring contracts along with other roster players also facing free agency. How these decisions will be dealt with is up to management and specifically Brad Treliving.
With the Canadian dollar projected to hover around 75-80 cents US for the time being, it doesn't seem as though the salary cap will rise much, if at all for 2016-2017.