Greenway, Dumba, Soucy, Talbot will be exposed in the ED unless Parise waves his NMC. If he does, Wild likely protect Dumba there.
Assuming Parise does waive then Greenway, Soucy, Talbot are exposed. Seattle probably takes Greenway.
Rask gets bought out giving a 2.66m savings.
Kaprizov for 8m
Fiala for 6.75m
Eriksson Ek for 4m
Boldy, Rossi, Addison, Dewar make the big league roster.
Kaprizov (8m) - Eriksson Ek (4m) - Zuccarello (6m)
Boldy (925k) - Rossi (925k) - Fiala (6.75m)
Foligno (3.1m) - Sturm (725k) - Hartman (2.75m)
Parise (7.5m) - Dewar (825k) - xxx
xxx
Suter (7.5m) - Spurgeon (7.5m)
Brodin (6m) - Dumba (6m)
Soucy (2.75m) - Addison (795k)
Menell (1.5m)
Talbot (3.6m)
Kahkonen (725k)
Leaves the Wild roughly $4.8m to fill out the empty spots.
Pretty fluid, obviously.
I'm coming around to the idea that exposing Dumba and his $6m might be a net-positive for the Wild. I think given how bare the overall talent level is at the forward position, especially center, we cannot justify spending $27m (basically 1/3 of our cap) on the top 4 D. It might be a sideways step or even a step back, but Mennell and Addison are ready to play. We've seen how players can be empowered by being asked to step into roles. At some point you have to rely on your development pipeline, the Wild have and should continue to have a lot of depth at D with O'Rourke as well.
Kaprizov (8m) - Eriksson Ek (4m) - Zuccarello (6m)
Boldy (925k) - Rossi (925k) - Fiala (7m)
Foligno (3.1m) - Sturm (725k) - Greenway (2.10)
Parise (7.5m) - Dewar (825k) - Hartman (2.75m)
xxx
Suter (7.5m) - Spurgeon (7.5m)
Brodin (6m) - Addison (795k)
Soucy (2.75m) - Mennell (1.5m)
xxx
Talbot (3.6m)
Kahkonen (725k)
This would leave you with ~7-8m in cap space to fill a 7th D spot and a press-box forward. I would think that potentially the Wild would want to explore trying to add a C and then bumping the lines to the following:
Kaprizov (8m) - FA C/Rossi (925k) - Zuccarello (6m)
Boldy (925k) - FA C /Rossi (925k) - Fiala (7m)
Foligno (3.1m) - Eriksson Ek (4m) - Greenway (2.1m)
Parise (7.5m) - Sturm (725k) - Hartman (2.75m)
Dewar (825k)
Suter (7.5m) - Spurgeon (7.5m)
Brodin (6m) - Addison (795k)
Soucy (2.75m) - Mennell (1.5m)
Hunt (725k)
Talbot (3.6m)
Kahkonen (725k)
I think I like this hypothetical lineup better. In theory, you could shelter Rossi with two veterans in Zuccarrello and Kaprizov. Give Fiala a legit veteran C and avoid having two rookies playing on one line.
Roll the Ek, Foligno, Greenway line against opposing teams #1 units and let the Kaprizov and Fiala lines feast against teams middle 6 lines.