If we don't re-sign Quincey and one of Helm/Abdelkader and Andersson I would think we have the room then???
Andersson is a non-factor with cap things. He will be cheap ~1M player for his whole career, easy be burned on the waiver wire, but could be valuable kept as 13th-14th guy. As the next "cleary" everybody hates, but as a guy who will help the team more than his contract worth.
But Helm and Abdelkader are gonna get UFA raises and will be the main problem, if we add another big contract.
Quincey gone will help obviously and Richards gone too. But DeKeyser will need a raise and Sheahan/Pulkkinen/Mrazek too.
If the cap is same at 2016-17 (71.4M)
1. Dats 7.5M
2. Zeta 6.1M
3. Gus 4.75M
(Mule 3.95M) don't count him on this case, expect to be LTIR.
(Richards 3.0M) - GONE
4. Tatar 2.75M
(Helm 2.125M) - GONE
(Abdelkader 1.8M) - GONE
(Miller 1.35M) - GONE
5. Sheahan 2.45M (from 950k) ~1.5M raise
6. Pulkkinen 2.0M (Mike Hoffman money) (from 735k) ~1.3M raise
7. Larkin 925k ELC
8. Jurco 900k
9. Ferraro 900k (extended)
10. Andersson 900k (extended)
11. Glendening 628k
12. XXX = 950k
13. YYY = 950k
14. ZZZ = 950k
+ Richards bonus 750k (reached conference finals, of course
)
Total:
33.4M
Sheahan - Zeta - Nyquist
Jurco - Datsyuk - Tatar
XXX - Larkin - Pulkkinen
Andersson - Glendening - Ferraro
(YYY, ZZZ)
Franzen LTIR
1. Byfuglien 6.0M
2. Green 6.0M
3. Kronwall 4.75M
4. DeKeyser 4.5M (from 2.187M) ~2.3M raise (to those David Savard numbers)
5. Ericsson 4.25M
(Quincey 4.25M) - GONE
6. Smith 2.75M
7. Kindl 2.4M
Ouellet?
Marchenko?
Defencemen Total 31.2M
Howard 5.2M
Mrazek 2.2M (from 737k) ~1.5M raise (compared Mrazek to Robin Lehner 2.2M contract)
Goalies Total 7.4M
23-man roster total:
71.5M (100k over the current cap)
MMmmmm, we would be there with long teeth. But something has to be done for that cap-hell defence. There's no room for Ouellet or Marchenko. We can make one 950k hole by waiving Kindl, but another one has to be Smith traded or something like that. Ericsson has NTC.
I really think trade at the deadline would work better, because Winnipeg could eat some critical 2016-17 millions from our cap. Adding Byfuglien from free agency would be technically "free", but it forces us to quite a cap hell. It kind of kills the re-signing of Abdelkader so adding Buff we would lose Abdelkader for sure.