This would be your cap situation after a regular buyout.
1.0M for Andersson and 1.4M for Nyquist. Emmerton waived.
CAPGEEK.COM USER GENERATED ROSTER
My Custom Lineup
FORWARDS
Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Justin Abdelkader ($1.800m)
Johan Franzen ($3.955m) / Stephen Weiss ($4.900m) / Daniel Alfredsson ($5.500m)
Tomas Tatar ($0.840m) / Joakim Andersson ($1.000m) / Gustav Nyquist ($1.400m)
Drew Miller ($1.350m) / Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Todd Bertuzzi ($2.075m)
Patrick Eaves ($1.200m) / Jordin Tootoo ($1.900m)
DEFENSEMEN
Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m)
Kyle Quincey ($3.775m) / Brendan Smith ($1.263m)
Danny DeKeyser ($1.350m) / Jakub Kindl ($2.400m)
Brian Lashoff ($0.725m)
GOALTENDERS
Jimmy Howard ($5.292m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($1.500m)
OTHER
Buyout: Mikael Samuelsson ($1.000m)
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(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $66,132,045; BONUSES: $3,010,000
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $1,177,955
So there would be +1.1 million capspace. If we could save that space, half of the Alfredsson's bonuses would not transfer to 2014-15 season's cap. But Sammy's another buyout 1.0M would be there.
Next year we have Quincey, E, Alfie, Eaves and Bert coming off the books. The good thing is on forwards we should be able to promote within and not have to sign any FA forwards as long as guys improve. So we will have a ton of cap space open up and need to sign 2 defenseman essentially. Ericsson if we want and another to take Q's spot. It would probably be best to sign a veteran for a short term 1 or 2 years as a stop gap until one of our young guys are ready. So I dont mind the buy out option to save 2M this year and have 1M on the books next year.
Z, Datsyk, Abby
Franzen, Weiss, Nyquist
Tatar, Andersson/Helm, Jurco/Frk
Miller, Andersson/Helm, Ferraro/Sheahan/Tootoo
That's way cheaper and Tatar, Nyquist, Andersson all have had time to adapt and help lead the 2 new guys coming up and limit the inexperience.
Kronwall, FA/E
Dekeyser, Smith/Kindl
FA, Smith/Kindl
It really depends how Kindl, Dekeyser and Smith improve for what we would need to sign next offseason. It could be a bottom 6 guy and a top 2 guy which would be 4M and 1.5/2M or so.
I say buy him out and eat the 1 million next year.