This year's salary cap

[David]

I dont know if anyone's interested, but there's a story on TSN today about where teams are with regards to this year's cap.
www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=371773

Salary Cap Numbers: (as of July 14th courtesy of capgeek.com)

No Room At The Top:

Buffalo Sabres - $63,945,357
Washington Capitals - $63,905,128
Pittsburgh Penguins - $62,737,500
Philadelphia Flyers - $62,722,261
Calgary Flames - $61,008,334
Vancouver Canucks - $60,408,333

The Big Spenders:

Toronto Maple Leafs - $59,115,000
San Jose Sharks - $58,712,500
Chicago Blackhawks - $58,075,961
Detroit Red Wings - $57,804,545
New Jersey Devils - $57,530,000
Montreal Canadiens - $56,620,510
Edmonton Oilers - $56,400,000
Boston Bruins - $55,552,976
Columbus Blue Jackets - $55,528,976

Mid-Range Money:

Minnesota Wild - $53,955,277
Los Angeles Kings - $53,631,310
New York Rangers - $53,133,334
St. Louis Blues - $52,679,166
Ottawa Senators - $51,870,834
Anaheim Ducks - $49,995,833
Dallas Stars - $49,905,000
Florida Panthers - $49,822,042
Carolina Hurricanes - $49,775,000
Tampa Bay Lightning - $49,463,583

Below the Floor:

Winnipeg Jets - $46,419,166
Phoenix Coyotes - $45,518,750
Colorado Avalanche - $45,458,334
Nashville Predators - $41,208,333
New York Islanders - $37,849,166

[optimus]

Don't see Toronto doing much else until Schenn is re-signed.

[Yotes]

With RFAs we'll get over the cap floor pretty easily, if not much else. Gonna be a looooong season.

[Thomas Elliott]

Rangers will lose some of that cap space when Callahan and Dubinsky re-sign.... God I hope they re-sign!!
Think we could do with a little bit more secondary scoring (a player of proven 20+ goals a year) or a veteran defenceman to help the younger players (and control the powerplay)
It's just a case of which one is more important I think. In my opinion I think with the addition of Richards it'd be a defenceman if I was Sather.

What will be interesting will be to see how well Philly do having got rid of their big names, and they are still so close to the cap!! Also interested to see how Boston perform and if they'll delve into spending a bit more money on players.

[optimus]

Dubinsky re-signed a few days ago Andy.

[crazykeeper]

All I know is George McPhee has worked some real magic this off-season in order to keep us near enough to the cap that things can be sorted before the start of the season and yet still keep up with quality signings like extending Alzner and landing Vokoun for next to nothing!

I know I say it every year but I think we're really in with a chance now!

[Shaggy]

Jul 23, 2011 14:38:20 GMT crazykeeper said:

All I know is George McPhee has worked some real magic this off-season in order to keep us near enough to the cap that things can be sorted before the start of the season and yet still keep up with quality signings like extending Alzner and landing Vokoun for next to nothing!

I know I say it every year but I think we're really in with a chance now!

Are you? I still think that the main weakness of the Caps still hasn't been addressed... the apparent inability to perform in the post-season. It's all very well slotting in a new piece here or there, but if the coaches can't get a proper plan together or motivate the players to actually turn up as a team, the odd individual improvement here or there is virtually meaningless.

[Dan]

The Caps are one of the favourites now, Vokoun is ace.