I think the cap is gonna go up ~2M. The CAD vs. USD level is quite same as in last 2 years from yearly period and that 2M raise has happened every year. the has been Winter Classics, World Cup etc. to collect extra revenues.
So, with 75 MILLION CAP:
1. Zetterberg - 6.083M
3. Nielsen 5.250M
3. Nyquist - 4.750M
4. Abdelkader - 4.250M
5. Helm - 3.850M
6. Tatar - estimated 3.750M raise. Bad season, so no chance for a Nyquist-level raise.
7. Sheahan - 2.075M
8. Glendening - 1.800M
9. Athanasiou ~1.6M estimated raise
10. Larkin - 925k
11. Mantha - 863k
12. Bertuzzi 662k
---------------------
13. Callahan 660k
14. Nosek 612k
LTIR, Franzen - 3.954M
1. Green - 6.000M
2. DeKeyser - 5.000M
3. Kronwall - 4.750M
4. Ericsson - 4.250M
5. Ouellet - 1.715M (+1M raise)
6. Jensen 812k
7. Sproul 625k
If Sproul is stolen in expansion draft, promote Russo 680k and caphits will go almost even.
1. Howard - 5.292M
2. Mrazek - 4.000M
Other costs:
2015-16 Bonus overage - 0.000k ?
Weiss buyout - 2.557M
Salary retentions - 0.000k
Current total figures : 76.094M
Salary Cap (estimated) ~75.000M
= Cap space -1.094M (with 14+7+2 roster = 23)
LTIR Cap maximum space through Franzen LTIR = 2.858M
***
Shattenkirk-scenario:
Jimmy Howard buyout + promoting Coreau would raise the CAP space (including Franzen LTIR) to 5.8M.
Drop Russo from defence back in AHL and at highest we can offer for Shattenkirk 6.4M. That's a low-ball offer. But whatever, guy is a Ranger already.