I still have no idea where you are getting your numbers from. Are you just making things up?
2024/25 signed players:
Nichushkin - $6,125,000
Mackinnnon - $12,600,000
Rantanen - $9,250,000
Lehkonen - $4,500,000
Mittlestadt - RFA
Drouin - UFA
Wood - $2,500,000
Colton - $4,000,000
O’Connor - $1,050,000
Kovalenko - $896,250
Wagner - $775,000
Duhaime - UFA
Makar - $9,000,000
Toews - $7,250,000
Girard - $5,000,000
Manson - $4,500,000
Behrens - $905,833
Malinski - $850,000
Georgiev - $3,400,000
Annunen - $837,500
2024/25 salary cap - $87,700,000
Total contracts- $73,439,583
Cap space - $14,260,417
That’s plenty to resign Mittlestadt, Drouin and two or three vets to min contracts.
Even if Landeskog comes back (our top 6 is set) we can trade Girard for futures, have Behrens take his spot and still be left with:
$12,260,417 to sign Mittlestadt, a 4th line winger and 2 or 3 extras.