The Calgary Flames have avoided their arbitration hearing this morning by signing Ian White to a new 1-year deal, which apparently has a salary and cap hit of $2,999,995, which of course, we'll just call $3 million. White, acquired from the Maple Leafs in the Dion Phaneuf deal during the year, was the last piece of the Flames Summer of Free Agency, but at what cost will his new deal cost the Flames?Between being the top dog in Toronto for a good portion of the season and then moving to Calgary, White had a pretty good season on the scoresheet, picking up 13 goals and 25 assists in a league-leading 83 games in 2010, which was pretty good for the blueliner. White finished 28th among blueliners in scoring and will now get paid like he will be able to do it all over again in the 2011 season.
| Forwards | Defense | Goalies |
| Jarome Iginla | Ian White | Miikka Kiprusoff |
| Rene Bourque | Marc Giordano | Henrik Karlsson |
| Matt Stajan | Jay Bouwmeester | |
| Olli Jokinen | Robyn Regehr | |
| Niklas Hagman | Steve Staios | |
| Daymond Langkow | Adam Pardy | |
| Alex Tanguay | Cory Sarich | |
| Curtis Glencross | ||
| Ales Kotalik | ||
| David Moss | ||
| Mikael Backlund | ||
| Tim Jackman | ||
| Raitis Ivanans |
The biggest concern about White's deal was always going to be how it fits against the salary cap ceiling and the term we're going to use here is going to be... "not well." The roster above looks fairly complete with 22 players and the buyout of Nigel Dawes and that leaves them with an annual cap hit of $62.3 million, $2.9 million over the ceiling, approximately. Who stays and who goes to help relieve the cap situation, that'll be up to management, but I'm sure we'll all have a healthy go at that.
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