UPDATED: The Leafs Cap
Here's (yet) another look at the Leafs salary cap situation.
At the very least, it's likely that 2 forwards will be added and one defenceman will be playing with the Marlies. As well, under section 50.5 of the CBA, teams can exceed the cap by 10% from July 1 to the last day of training camp, so who knows how the Leafs' cap will break down. That said, by my math they're going to have to find about $3 to $5M in cap savings to take a run at a big name UFA.
12 Forwards: $20,411,000
- Antropov
- Belak
- Bell
- Devereaux
- Kilger
- Pohl
- Ponikarovsky
- Stajan
- Steen
- Sundin
- Tucker
- Wellwood
8 Defence: $20,829,328
- Coliachovo
- Gill
- Kaberle
- Kronwall
- Kubina
- McCabe
- White
- Wozniewski
2 Goalies: $3,375,000
Belfour's Buy-out: $770,000
SUB-TOTAL: $45,335,328
Cap room remaining: approximately $2 ~ $2.5 million (presumes a $48/49 million cap with some flex room left over for short-term injuries)
It definitely makes things look a bit better!
ReplyDeleteI would guess that the Leafs probably play Williams and overpay on one big UFA forward to make the 12 with utility man Belak filling in where needed.
As for a backup, I like the Manny Fernandez rumours and maybe the Wild would like a guy like White or Woz.
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move belak to forward. with kronwall signed to a one way deal there is little chance belak will be on defence.
ReplyDeleteondrus and newburry and williams and belak make 14 forwards.
battaglia might be back at 500-600k.
thats 15.
the leafs really only need one/two forwards.
i can see aubin coming back to save cap space too... or mikka norronen maybe.
Is Norronen a UFA? We should be all over him, Backstrom or Joseph to challenge/ usurp Raycroft.
ReplyDeleteBig Bert with Wellwood and Sundin? Would he survive the media is the question.
ReplyDeleteNinja - I think Bert's days as a top-line guy are done. He can be effective when he's a depth guy on a team like Detroit...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure some GM will shovel money at him, paying for past performance, I just hope it's not JFJ doing the shovelling.
I hear ya. I think he could be had for cheap, and that's why I thought of it. And because the crop of top wingers isn't that tempting. Gomer's been my pick for a while, but we don't need a center. We've had too many centers for a decade now.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather the team fold than pick up Bert.
ReplyDeleteCarlo signed. 3 years at $1.283 per.