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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Panthers have roughly $20 million in cap space right now. Rumours are that Luongo is considering going on LTIR for the remainder of his contract because his hips/knees might be too bad to play. He had multiple long-term injuries last year. That means Florida has almost $25 million in cap room to add this off-season. Here are their bigger needs heading into the off-season:
Defensive minded coach to teach systems: CHECK-Joel Quenneville
Shutdown top 4 defenseman to play with Matheson: TBD
Starting goaltender: *Possibly signed Bobrovsky at $8 million per year.
Scoring winger to play with Barkov: *Possibly signed Panarin at $9.5 million per year.
3rd/4th line veteran checking center: TBD
3rd/4th line veteran checking winger: TBD
Huberdeau-Barkov-*Panarin (Holy hell is that a scary line)
Dadonov-Trocheck-Hoffman
Vatrano-UFA-Malgin
UFA-Borgstrom-Sceviour
Ekblad-Yandle
Matheson-UFA
Weegar-Pysyk
*Bobrovsky-Reimer
LTIR-Luongo
Coach: Joel Quenneville
So even with those big UFA signings, they would have anywhere between $3-7 million to find some final pieces to fill out the lineup. It's entirely possible that they let guys like Tippett and Heponiemi start the year on the team and then add at the trade deadline. But much of this hinges on them getting their big UFAs, mostly Bobrovsky.
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Do they have any of their own players to re-sign? If not, that is a lot of room although I wouldn't expect Panthers to be a cap team either.