leeroggy
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A really depressing thought: What if the higher floor doesn't matter?
Player 2013-14 2014-15
Tavares, John » $5,500,000 $5,500,000
Bailey, Josh » $3,300,000 $3,300,000
Grabner, Michael » $3,000,000 $3,000,000
Okposo, Kyle » $2,800,000 $2,800,000
Clutterbuck, Cal » $2,750,000 $2,750,000
Nielsen, Frans » $2,750,000 $2,750,000
Martin, Matt » $1,000,000 $1,000,000
Nelson, Brock » $900,000 $900,000
Lee, Anders » $900,000 RFA
Halmo, Mike » $864,167 $864,167
Strome, Ryan » $863,333 $863,333
Cizikas, Casey » $793,333 RFA
McDonald, Colin » $637,500 $637,500
Boulton, Eric » $550,000 UFA
Visnovsky, L. » $4,750,000 $4,750,000
Hamonic, Travis » $3,857,143 $3,857,143
Carkner, Matt » $1,500,000 $1,500,000
Donovan, Matt » $875,000 RFA
de Haan, Calvin » $870,000 RFA
Strait, Brian » $775,000 $775,000
Hickey, Thomas » $675,000 $675,000
Martinek, Radek » $600,000 UFA
Nabokov, Evgeni » $3,250,000 UFA
Nilsson, Anders » $900,000 RFA
Regin, Peter » $375,000 UFA
Bouchard, P. » $1,000,000 UFA
Yashin, Alexei » $2,204,000 $2,204,000
Roster Size 24 16
Salary Cap $64,300,000 $71,100,000
Cap Payroll $51,316,810 $41,811,976
Current Bonuses $6,092,500 $3,685,833
Above is a cut and paste from CapGeek.com of our current roster, showing that we currently have 16 players under contract for $41,811,976 for 2014-15.
The cap floor will be about $51,000,000 next season. DeHaan and Donovan are givens to be re-signed and that makes 7 defensemen when they do. Budget $2,000,000 total for them. Add Reinhart on his ELC for $1,000,000.
Add Cizikas, Lee and probably Boulton for a total of say $3,000,000 or less and we are up to 21 total players.
That leaves goaltending.
Add $5,000,000 to the current numbers and that leaves a little over $5,000,000 to reach the cap floor.
As depressing as this sounds, if Wang only wants to hit the floor again it will be pretty easy to do so. Re-sign Poulin or Nilsson and Nabakov for a total of $4,000,000 and we are there.
Since most of us can agree that we are not going to convince a big free agent to sign with us this offseason after this season’s debacle we might be looking at this team again!
Younger, cheaper and . . . well, you get the picture!
And think this simple thought - if retaining $1,000,000 of Vanek's salary to make a much better deal was not tenable why would our owner possibly open the checkbook next year?
Unbelievable to me is that I root for arguably the TWO cheapest owners in all of major league sports - The Isles and the Marlins.
Commit me now, before the dementia kicks in . . .
Player 2013-14 2014-15
Tavares, John » $5,500,000 $5,500,000
Bailey, Josh » $3,300,000 $3,300,000
Grabner, Michael » $3,000,000 $3,000,000
Okposo, Kyle » $2,800,000 $2,800,000
Clutterbuck, Cal » $2,750,000 $2,750,000
Nielsen, Frans » $2,750,000 $2,750,000
Martin, Matt » $1,000,000 $1,000,000
Nelson, Brock » $900,000 $900,000
Lee, Anders » $900,000 RFA
Halmo, Mike » $864,167 $864,167
Strome, Ryan » $863,333 $863,333
Cizikas, Casey » $793,333 RFA
McDonald, Colin » $637,500 $637,500
Boulton, Eric » $550,000 UFA
Visnovsky, L. » $4,750,000 $4,750,000
Hamonic, Travis » $3,857,143 $3,857,143
Carkner, Matt » $1,500,000 $1,500,000
Donovan, Matt » $875,000 RFA
de Haan, Calvin » $870,000 RFA
Strait, Brian » $775,000 $775,000
Hickey, Thomas » $675,000 $675,000
Martinek, Radek » $600,000 UFA
Nabokov, Evgeni » $3,250,000 UFA
Nilsson, Anders » $900,000 RFA
Regin, Peter » $375,000 UFA
Bouchard, P. » $1,000,000 UFA
Yashin, Alexei » $2,204,000 $2,204,000
Roster Size 24 16
Salary Cap $64,300,000 $71,100,000
Cap Payroll $51,316,810 $41,811,976
Current Bonuses $6,092,500 $3,685,833
Above is a cut and paste from CapGeek.com of our current roster, showing that we currently have 16 players under contract for $41,811,976 for 2014-15.
The cap floor will be about $51,000,000 next season. DeHaan and Donovan are givens to be re-signed and that makes 7 defensemen when they do. Budget $2,000,000 total for them. Add Reinhart on his ELC for $1,000,000.
Add Cizikas, Lee and probably Boulton for a total of say $3,000,000 or less and we are up to 21 total players.
That leaves goaltending.
Add $5,000,000 to the current numbers and that leaves a little over $5,000,000 to reach the cap floor.
As depressing as this sounds, if Wang only wants to hit the floor again it will be pretty easy to do so. Re-sign Poulin or Nilsson and Nabakov for a total of $4,000,000 and we are there.
Since most of us can agree that we are not going to convince a big free agent to sign with us this offseason after this season’s debacle we might be looking at this team again!
Younger, cheaper and . . . well, you get the picture!
And think this simple thought - if retaining $1,000,000 of Vanek's salary to make a much better deal was not tenable why would our owner possibly open the checkbook next year?
Unbelievable to me is that I root for arguably the TWO cheapest owners in all of major league sports - The Isles and the Marlins.
Commit me now, before the dementia kicks in . . .
