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Originally Posted by Parallex
Then you need some new glasses. We need to spend some money to be cap compliant we have to sign a UFA or three to get up to the lower limit.
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exactly. If the $71.1m cap that was reported by Dreger is true, the floor will be at around $52.5m. Currently, our lineup for next year looks like:
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: $71,100,000; CAP PAYROLL: $34,264,167; BONUSES: $1,381,250
CAP SPACE (13-man roster): $36,835,833
based on that, the Flames need to spend over $18m to even be cap compliant. They can't simply fill the roster with Gaudreau, Poirier, Ferland ... they'll need to re-sign one or two of their UFAs to substantial contracts and/or look at other UFAs.