I just drafted a team on CapFriendly and the hardest thing to do is actually stay under the cap. You can easily get a solid top-9 of forwards and top-4 on D but it will cost you around $65M for that alone which seems like a lot. It's actually much harder than I thought. There are too many options and a lot of the players are overpaid.
For exemple, I can't see them taking Giordano, Johansen or Price. Their cap hit is simply too high and they would pass up on other good players that are better value for what they're paid.
Of course, I believe Seattle is allowed to go over the cap by a bit and they could retain and trade players after the draft.
But realistically, they'll only take about 5-6 overpaid players and at least 10 kids and/or minimum salary players
Niederreiter - Gourde - Voracek
Zucker - McCann - Bailey
Jarnkrok - Gaudette - Appleton
Ritchie - Gambrell - Blackwell
Giordano - Larsson (sign)
Dunn (sign)- Jensen
Bowey - Fleury
Price
Kahkonen
Driedger
Extra:
F:Fischer. Lizotte, Greer
D: Harrington, MacDonald, Borgen, Cholowski
G: D'Accord
Which better value players would you get? Imo this is a competitive lineup, although it locks you out of UFA and there's a lot of guys that will need to be resigned fast...