Matthews (9-11)
Nylander (6.5-8)
Marner (6-7)
Kadri (4.5)
Brown (2.1)
Rielly (5)
Gardiner (5-6)
Zaitsev (4.5)
Liljegren (ELC)
Andersen (5)
Total - 47.6 to 53.1
Roughly free cap space - 22 to 27 million
That is our team. Fill the holes based on those players. I also think lou is going to bring down the cap hits of all our players. Just have a feeling that we are going to get great deals.
Gardiner is not leaving. He wont want to leave when our team is looking great, babcock has really high praise and relies on him a lot, and he is probably our second best defenceman (maybe tied with zaitsev).
Then have kapanen, grundstrom, leivo, hyman, johnsson, aaltonen, bracco, borgman, carrick, dermott, liljegren come fill in the spots on cheap contracts.