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Let's assume it's $70m next season. So, as of today, our roster for next year looks like this:

FORWARDS
Curtis Glencross ($2.550m) / Mikael Backlund ($1.500m) / David Jones ($4.000m)
Sven Baertschi ($0.894m) / Sean Monahan ($0.925m) / Jiri Hudler ($4.000m)
Unknown / Unknown / Unknown
Unknown / Unknown / Brian McGrattan ($0.750m)

DEFENSEMEN
Dennis Wideman ($5.250m) / Mark Giordano ($4.020m)
Ladislav Smid ($3.500m) / T.J. Brodie ($2.125m)
Unknown / Unknown
Shane O'Brien ($2.000m)

GOALTENDERS
Karri Ramo ($2.750m) / Unknown

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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $70,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $34,264,167; BONUSES: $1,381,250
CAP SPACE (13-man roster): $35,735,833

So that's about 15m to spend for 10 players just to get to the floor. If the Flames re-sign one or two of their pending UFAs and/or sign one or two on the open market, they should be good to go. Will be close though ... this lineup would only barely be compliant, although it would mean to overpay a few players:

FORWARDS
Curtis Glencross ($2.550m) / Mikael Backlund ($1.500m) / Lee Stempniak ($4.250m)
Sven Baertschi ($0.894m) / Sean Monahan ($0.925m) / Jiri Hudler ($4.000m)
T.J. Galiardi ($1.750m) / Joe Colborne ($1.250m) / David Jones ($4.000m)
Lance Bouma ($1.250m) / Corban Knight ($0.900m) / Brian McGrattan ($0.750m)
Max Reinhart ($0.618m) / Blair Jones ($1.000m) /

DEFENSEMEN
Dennis Wideman ($5.250m) / Mark Giordano ($4.020m)
Ladislav Smid ($3.500m) / T.J. Brodie ($2.125m)
Kris Russell ($3.750m) / Patrick Sieloff ($0.925m)
Shane O'Brien ($2.000m) /

GOALTENDERS
Karri Ramo ($2.750m)
Reto Berra ($1.500m)

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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $70,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $51,457,500; BONUSES: $4,491,250
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $18,542,500

sooo ... looking at that, the Flames will have little choice but to sign another UFA if they don't want to "scrape the barrel" to make the floor.