The thing is, guys like Tanguay are not the issue. He put up some decent points last season and should get resigned as he was a bright spot on the team. Hopefully he does well again and use him as trade bait.
To me it is a lot of other players in the Flames that need to go first. That list would include
Stajan - At $3.5M he is the most obvious player that needs to get shoved. Move him at all cost, because he is a waste of cap space for the next three seasons. (6G, 25A in 76 games)
Langkow - Another waste of space. He isn't a top 2 centre, yet Calgary keeps putting him there. At $4.5M he hopefully isn't resigned next season. Played 4 games last season, year before that in 72 games he had 14G and 23assists. Not worth $4.5M money.
Also look at that defence. Bouwmeester - $6.690M, Giordano - $4.020M, Sarich - $3.600M. A lot of overpaid players here what they don't bring to the table. Bouwmeester has not cracked 30pts with Calgary despite doing it every year with a shitty florida team. Not worth $6M.
The thing to look at with Calgary is, this isn't the year. They will make one final go at it I think, then next season when all the money comes back, they will start (hopefully).
Next season they get back a fuckload of money. Just look at this list.
Langkow - $4.5M
Hagman - $3.0M
Jokinen - $3.0M
Moss - $1.3M
Sarich - $3.6M
That is a lot of money and a lot of useless talent. Hagman is another to add to the list they should be happy to let go, and I think the Jokinen experiment has got to finished after two stints with the team.
Calgary needs to start drafting better, getting prospects and building the system. They have done such a piss poor job of it. I've said before about the Flames that they are just like Toronto a few years back. They knew they needed to rebuild, but they just kept clinging onto it and hoped something stuck to the wall.