MaxTheLimit
Hockey ruins all my personal relationships
When you have Stone and Turris coming off the books at 3.5 each, you're going to need to pony up at least an extra 5 million a year to resign them. Both money and cap becomes a hurdle at that point.
I think it's important to note that Stone and Turris are actually being paid $4.5M and $4M respectively next year. It might not seem like much, but that means the raise they receive isn't as high much as you might think. I think they are both gonna get $6M or so. So it will take only ~$3.5M in actual dollars to get them resigned.
The space is there, but there isn't going to be a lot of money for the bottom 6. Sens are gonna have to do some bargain hunting and hoping for ELCs to fill out those depth lines...I dunno...