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Originally Posted by Jacks

That's just dumb, should have used a regular buyout. No way in hell we get anywhere near the cap ceiling but there is a fairly reasonable chance we will have some trouble getting to the floor. Unless they have some big UFA on a handshake deal waiting in the wings this could blow up in our faces.

It will be interesting to be sure.

This is more or less what we're looking at currently:

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FORWARDS - 11 for $20.994M
Curtis Glencross ($2.550m) / Mikael Backlund ($1.500m) / Jiri Hudler ($4.000m)
Sven Baertschi ($0.894m) / Sean Monahan ($0.925m) / Joe Colborne ($1.000m)
UFA (?) / Matt Stajan ($3.125m) / David Jones ($4.000m)
Brandon Bollig ($1.250m) / Lance Bouma ($1.000m) / Brian McGrattan ($0.750m)

DEFENSEMEN - 5 for $17.495M
T.J. Brodie ($2.125m) / Mark Giordano ($4.020m)
Dennis Wideman ($5.250m) / Kris Russell ($2.600m)
UFA (?) / Ladislav Smid ($3.500m)

GOALTENDERS
Karri Ramo ($2.750m)
UFA (?)

CAP PAYROLL: $41,239,000
FLOOR SPACE $9,761,000

$9.8M to spend on 6 players. An average of $1.63M each, and that average increases if we promote Gaudreau ($0.925m), Reinhart ($0.618k), or Wotherspoon ($0.925m).

We're going to have to bring in a $4-6M player basically.