Assuming they start the season with a bare minimum of 20 players on the active roster and 6 on the taxi squad...
FORWARD- Tkachuk (7.00)
- Gaudreau (6.75)
- Monahan (6.375)
- Backlund (5.35)
- Lucic (5.25)
- Lindholm (4.85)
- Bennett (2.55)
- Mangiapane (2.425)
- Leivo (0.875)
- Dube (0.778333)
- Nordstrom (0.700)
- Simon (0.700)
DEFENCE- Giordano (6.75)
- Hanifin (4.95)
- Andersson (4.55)
- Tanev (4.50)
- Valimaki (0.894166)
- Nesterov (0.700)
GOAL- Markstrom (6.00)
- Rittich (2.75)
TAXI- Domingue
- Ryan (2.05 unburied)
- Rinaldo
- Ritchie
- Kylington
- Stone/Petrovic
Buyouts (Brouwer/Stone): 2.67
TOTAL: $79.417 million
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This would give the team just over $2 million in cap space to start the season. Much better than less than a quarter million.