I've worked out this cap situation before, its going to be very close whether we can keep him or not, but having over 16M+ committed to your left side of defense is a big problem, even if we somehow can keep Yandle, especially when those LHD are all on long-term contracts. It might work if one of them switches over to the right side or somehow Staal waives his NMC clause, but otherwise this is the best case scenario for keeping Yandle
JTM(4.5M)-Brass(5M)-Zucc(4.5M)
Kreids(4.0M)-Step(6.5M)-Buch(600k)
Stalberg(1.3M)-Hayes(3M)-Nash(7.8M)
Hrivik(600k)-Lindberg(650k)-Fast(950k)
No room for extra forward
McD(4.7M)-G(5.5M)
Yandle(6M)-Klein(2.9)
Staal(5.7)-McI(1.5M)
minimum contract player(600k)
Hank(8.5M)
Hellberg(625k)
Estimated Highest Possible Cap Ceiling: 74.5M
Estimated Cap of Team: 75.425M
I've read that the highest the cap might be is 74.5M but it could be as low as 73M, so lets just say we get lucky and its 74.5M, this team with very conservative estimates on salary is still nearly 1M over the cap, and thats without a 13th forward. I guess its possible that it could work, maybe you trim all the RFA's salaries by 200k, only re-sign Stalberg for 1.1M or use a minimum contract player like Bourque or Tambellini in that spot, but this is also without Dominic Moore and under the assumption that we can somehow get Glass's contract off the cap. Its going to be very hard to keep Yandle.