Look at Tampa's opening night roster from last season:
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-opening...on/c-320209828
If you add up the cap hits for the 22 players listed, it comes in at just over $77.5 million, but they also had Gaborik, Nilsson, and Kucherov on LTIR for the entire season at a combined cap hit just under $17 million. If those salaries counted on their opening roster, their total cap hit would have been over $94.5 million -- well over the $81.5 million cap.