Cap friendly has the team's salary at 71.940M in real dollars. That includes White (925k) and Carey (700k) who are both on 2 ways and Gaborik (4.575M) and MacArthur (4.75M) who are expected to be on LTIR.
So realistically, we're probably looking at like 62-63M in real dollars. By the trade deadline when guys like Duchene and Karlsson are dealt, we can realistically bring the year's salary expenditure into the 50s.
Thanks for the tip JD1, You are correct, my quick math has us as follows:
Real dollars:
$73,565,833
minus Phaneuf and Burrows monies ($1,625,000 + $833,333)
$71,107,500
minus Grizz and likely Gaborik($4,750,000 + $4,575,000)
$61,782,500...if EK and Duchene are tossed that's another $14 million off this figure, we would surely have to retain or take back salary to reach the EM goal of being right at the floor no?