[savardandjokinen]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Easy peasy

Salary cap: $59.06 million

13 forwards:

Anders Lee - $5.50
William Karlsson - RFA
Mats Zuccarello - $6.00
Vlad Namestnikov - RFA
Eric Staal - $9.99
Dustin Brown - $6.66
Mattias Janmark - RFA
Lars Eller - $4.27
James Neal - $6.50
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - $0.75
Nick Bonino - $5.25
Corey Perry - $2.5
Matt Martin - $0.5

7 dmen:

Jake Gardiner - $3.00
Marcus Pettersson - RFA
Nikita Zaitsev - RFA
Andrej Sekera - $0.75
Justin Schultz - UFA
Sami Niku - RFA
Brad Hunt - UFA

2 goalies:

Pavel Francouz - UFA
Louis Domingue - $0.59

Likely retiring: Justin Williams and Craig Anderson
To trade: Jay Beagle, Drake Caggiula
To demote: Nick Shore, Trevor Moore, Sven Baertschi, Sam Gagner, Micheal Ferland, Mackenzie MacEachern, Ryan Lomberg,

I've got $52.26 million tied up in salary committed next year giving me $6.8 million to re-sign Karlsson, Pettersson, Zaitsev, Namestnikov, Janmark, and Niku.

Obviously that's not enough – if it were, I wouldn't be making any more trades. There's also the goaltending question: Francouz is a UFA. Then there's Justin Schultz and Brad Hunt.

I constantly update my estimated cap situation in a spreadsheet. Here are my estimated RFA contracts based on last year's grid amounts.

William Karlsson (proj. 73 OV): 1 year x $5 million
Marcus Pettersson (proj. 69 OV): 1 year x $3.5 million
Nikita Zaitsev (proj. 67 OV): 3 years x $3 million
Vlad Namestnikov (proj. 69 OV): 1 year x $2.5 million
Mattias Janmark (proj. 66 OV): 1 year x $0.75 million
Sami Niku (proj. 66 OV) 1 year x $1.25 million

Total: $16 million

So I estimate I'm roughly $9.2 million over the cap. A decent amount, but not insurmountable. And this is with me having satisfied the vast majority of my conditions, already having cleared out nearly all of my awful contracts, and adding numerous young, dynamic players.

Nerd!!