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Originally Posted by Vinny01
How is Buffalo going to afford Ristolinen, Reinhart, and Eichel with the huge payday a that RoR and Stamkos will have (likey $20M combined cap hit)?
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Risto will get his second contract this year, likely long-term somewhere in the $5 million-ish range (we have the cap space for this right now, along with a mega deal for Stamkos).
End of next season you have Gionta (4.25 million) and Franson (3.3 million) expiring and likely not re-signed. End of season after that you have Kane (5.25 mllion) and Gorges (3.9 million) expiring. So that's nearly $17 million in players easily replaced by cheaper options or even ELC guys like Guhle or Nylander before Eichel and Reinhart come up for new contracts. Players like Ennis or Moulson could be traded or bought out, or even left exposed in the expansion draft and potentially claimed. There's always ways to make room.