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Originally Posted by Wolven
I take it you haven't looked at the Stars salary cap situation... They can't keep everyone and add more on top, even with the cap going up.
They only have $1.955M in cap space right now for next season with a 21 player roster.
They do have $27.98M in cap space for 2026-27 but need to extend 4 RFAs, two of which will be very expensive (Robertson and Harley) and if they have Andersson and his extension, they are way over the cap.
- Robertson = $11-12M? He likely gets Marner money... unless they go to arbitration and get a cheaper 1 year deal to walk him to UFA? and they lose Robertson to UFA.
- Bourque = $2M? He signed a terrible contract this summer but I can't see him keep doing that.
- Harley = $9.5M to match Dobson? Or maybe he gets capped internally by Heiskanen's $8.45M?
- Lundkvist = $2M? Small raise for a third pair guy
- Andersson = $9M? Maybe he takes less if they can squeek in an 8 year deal.
And then they still need to add 4 more players to get to a 23 player roster.
Maybe I am guessing these numbers wrong but their cap space will disappear quickly and unloading Lyubushkin's $3.25M is likely not enough to fix it.
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And they trade away a 25 year old, PPG center to alleviate that cap crunch? Narrators voice: No they ****ing didn't. Come the **** on.