Well, right now they have about $54.4M committed to 14 players, leaving just under $10M to fill the other 9 spots if the cap stays the same. However, it figures to go up $4M or $5M, giving them a total of around $14M to fill out the roster.
Yep, it could be tight. We have King, Frattin and Ellerby as RFA's and Lewis, Fraser, Carcillo, Mitchell, Greene and Scrivens as UFA's.
Let's say we allow Ellerby to just walk after the season and went with one more extra forward instead (going 14F-7D-2G instead of the current 13F-8D-2G)
CAPGEEK.COM USER GENERATED ROSTER
My Custom Lineup
FORWARDS
Tyler Toffoli ($0.870m) / Anze Kopitar ($6.800m) / Dustin Brown ($5.875m)
Jeff Carter ($5.273m) / Mike Richards ($5.750m) / Justin Williams ($3.650m)
Kyle Clifford ($1.075m) / Jarret Stoll ($3.250m) / Matt Frattin ($0.945m)
Tanner Pearson ($0.925m) / Trevor Lewis ($1.600m) / Jordan Nolan ($0.700m)
Daniel Carcillo ($0.825m) / Linden Vey ($0.900m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Drew Doughty ($7.000m) / Slava Voynov ($4.167m)
Robyn Regehr ($3.000m) / Alec Martinez ($1.100m)
Jake Muzzin ($1.000m) / Willie Mitchell ($3.500m)
Matt Greene ($3.000m) /
GOALTENDERS
Jonathan Quick ($5.800m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $68,800,000; CAP PAYROLL: $67,804,394; BONUSES: $342,500
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $1,338,106
This assumes the following:
-a $68.8 million cap ($4.5 million increase in the off-season)
-That Dwight King is trade for a pick or something that doesn't impact the roster/cap
-That Ellerby and Fraser walk after the season
-Frattin takes his qualifying offer
-Lewis signs for $1.6 million. If his offense ever shows up he'll likely get closer to $2 million
-That Carcillo and Mitchell resign for their current salary
-That Greene signs for $3 million annually
-That Scrivens signs for $800,000
-That Toffoli, Pearson and Vey are all recalled
Assuming all of that plays out, and obviously a lot can change, most notably the amount the cap rises, then we are in good shape. In fact a lot better than what we are in right now cap space speaking.
Btw, for anyone picking apart my lines, I'm not trying to slot guys where they'd play in my opinion, just trying to show what the roster as a whole would look like and what our cap hit/space might be. I really don't care if you think Toffoli would be on the 3rd line or on a different wing. I'll leave that to Sutter to figure out.