Its a hard question to answer, here is a scenario that might work but it involves a lot of moving parts:
Paul Stastny is willing to take a team friendly deal at $5 million for two seasons
Jets can't find a taker for Mason
Perrault, Armia and Chariot dealt (Chariot and Armia are likely to cost too much for depth)
In this scenario we need some cheap replacements for those positions:
Roslovic replaces Armia
Poolman replaces Chariot
Petan/Ves replace Perrault.
Given that we have taken a hit in forward depth Petan gets first crack as we can't afford to lose him to waivers in this situation. Ves can also use the seasoning on the farm to acclimatize himself to NA.
Here is how I have calculated the cap situation. Its tight but doable but there are almost too many moves that need to be made to facilitate this:
Forwards | | | | |
Line | Left Wing | Center | Right Wing | Total |
1 | Connor, Kyle | Scheifele, Mark | Laine, Patrick | |
| 1,775,000 | 6,125,000 | 3,575,000 | 11,475,000 |
| | | | |
2 | Ehlers, Nick | Little, Brian | Wheeler, Blake | |
| 6,000,000 | 5,291,666 | 5,600,000 | 16,891,666 |
| | | | |
3 | Nic Petan | Stastny, Paul | Roslovic, Jack | |
| 800,000 | 5,000,000 | 1,106,666 | 6,906,666 |
| | | | |
4 | Copp, Andew | Lowry, Adam | Tanev, Brandon | |
| 1,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| | | | |
Extras | Extra 1 | Extra 2 | | |
| 800,000 | 600,000 | | 1,400,000 |
Froward total | | | | 41,673,332 |
Defense | | | | |
Pair | Left Defense | Right Defense | | |
1 | Morrissey, Josh | Trouba, Jacob | | |
| 3,000,000 | 6,500,000 | | 9,500,000 |
| | | | |
2 | Morrow, Joe | Byfuglien, Dustin | | |
| 1,000,000 | 7,600,000 | | 8,600,000 |
| | | | |
3 | Myers, Tyler | Kulikov, Dmitry | | |
| 5,500,000 | 4,333,333 | | 9,833,333 |
| | | | |
Extras | | Poolman, Tucker | | |
| | 1,000,000 | | 1,000,000 |
Defense Total | | | | 28,933,333 |
| | | | |
Goalies | Starter | Backup | | |
| Hellebuyck, Connor | X | | |
| 5,250,000 | 4,100,000 | | 9,350,000 |
| | | | |
Grand Total | | | | 79,956,665 |
Estimated Cap Ceiling | | | | 80,000,000 |
Cap space remaining | | | | 43,335 |
| | | | |
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In this situation we would run the risk of a bonus overage but we might be able to mitigate against this be only carrying a 22 man roster when both the Jets and Moose are in WPG at the same time.