If you’ve been reading this site during this off-season, you’ve probably noticed a bit of a trend in our coverage of potential free agent additions. While we’ll readily acknowledge that a particular player would be a boon to the Calgary Flames, we’ll also emphasize that the Flames probably don’t have the cap space to make significant additions given that Andrew Mangiapane and Oliver Kylington will be getting new, hefty deals.
But there’s one thing the Flames could do to change that: pay another team to take on Milan Lucic’s deal. Would the cost of such a move be worth it?