Predicting next year's lineup is exciting, but in 2 years is much, much more exciting. Expiring cap-hits include:
Bollig (1.25M)
Wideman (5.25M)
Smid (3.5M)
Engelland (2.9M)
Raymond (2.2M)
Total = 15.1M
The only player who was regularly in the lineup this year was Engelland, who honestly did play respectably, but I would argue did not act as much of a big-body deterrent and can be replaced for cheap.
The team played without the rest of these players often this year, and didn't notice much difference. Pending significant trades including dead-weight contracts (which don't happen all that often) next year's lineup changes will be even more exciting than this off-season.
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