Florida has 20mish cap space for next year with 8 roster spots to fill. Bob eats 8 say...7 players for remaining 12m. Probably icing some real scrubs.
Bunch of scrubs huh? Ill post my reply from the Panthers board:
-$83 million cap prediction
-With the prediction, we would be $24.5 million under the cap
-Lou is a $4.5 million cap hit
-Reimer is a $3.4 million cap hit
-Pysyk is a $2.7 million cap hit
Pick your option. With Lou alone we are at $29 million available. Without Lou, and getting rid of Reimer, we'd be $31.9 million under, be able to sign Bob, and have have Monty as his backup. Moves can be made to free up additional cap space. Trades can be made to bring in players we need. Not all our RFAs will be signed. A lot of things can happen to get us the players that we want/need.
Panarin - Barkov - Dadonov
Huberdeau - Trocheck - Vatrano
Hoffman - Borgstrom - Tippett
Hawryluk - Sceviour - Malgin
Ekblad - Yandle
Matheson - _______
Weegar - McCoshen
Brown
_________
Montembeault
*Lou retires, Reimer bought out, Pysyk traded
24.5+2.4+2.7+4.5=34.1 cap space
9 for Panarin
12 for our RFAs
1 for Monty
1 for Tippett
Leaves us with over $11 million to fill two spots. That RFA money could be high as well, as we might not sign everyone. Again, trades can happen as well, so there are a lot of different ways we can go here.