[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

On a $87.675M Salary Cap

Tampa Bay:
9 Forwards
5 Defencemen
2 Goals
$12.56M in cap space

Add Lindholm in at $9M

$3.56M to sign 3 forwards, 2 defencemen - so not legally possible. They've been in tougher crunches, and this is of course without them making any other changes.

Florida:
8 Forwards
2 Defencemen
2 Goalies
$26.07M in Cap Space

Add Lindholm in at $9M

$17.07M to sign 4 forwards, 5 defencemen. The forward spots would be the bottom 4 forward spots on the team. So yeah, could they get high value depth forwards and two top-4 defencemen + 3 bottom pairing/7th defencemen for $17M? I'd say yes, it's Florida. Bring Montour back at $7M, and it's still very doable. Bridging Lundell would be the requirement - and yes, letting Reinhart go.

The road to these teams signing Lindholm, if they wanted to, is far from difficult. They also aren't buried under poor value UFA contracts as-is - that's what affords them the opportunity to do it if they want.

Neither of these teams are in a bad spot cap-wise, because they aren't carrying poor value deals going forward.

If Lindholm wants to play in one of these markets though? I'd imagine he'd take less than $9M.

I assume you have Stamkos being allowed to leave based on those numbers.