drwpreds
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I hope we don't need to be armchair GMing after tonight... but as some of the other threads are kind of venturing into that territory, maybe it is time to bump this thread, so as not to pollute those other ones?
Here's a post I made a couple months ago plotting out a potential lineup for next season... some things have already changed... but the bottom line is we will have something like $10M we could spend in Free Agency, even after you tweak/update some of the old data below...
2024-25 Nashville Predators
Forsberg ($8.5M) - O'Reilly ($4.5M) - Nyquist ($3.185M)
L'Heureux ($0.8633M) - Novak ($3.5M) - Evangelista ($0.7975M)
Parssinen (RFA - $0.775M) - Glass ($2.5M) - Tomasino (RFA - $0.775M)
Afanseyev (RFA - $0.775M) - Sissons ($2.857M) - Smith ($1M)
McCarron ($0.900M)
Josi ($9.059M) - Fabbro (RFA - $3.5M)
McDonagh ($6.75M) - Carrier (UFA - $3.5M)
Stastney (RFA - $0.775M) - Lauzon ($2M)
Del Gaizo (RFA - $0.775M) - Schenn ($2.75M)
Saros ($5M)
Askarov ($0.925M)
Ekholm retention: $0.250M
Johansen retention: $4M
Turris Buyout: $2M
Duchene Buyout: $5.5556M
TOTAL: $77.7674M
2024-25 NHL Cap: $87-88M
REMAINING CAP SPACE: ~$10M
$11.5 million on Johansen/Turris/Duchene- SMH