Quoting: Boomer125
Dude you're vastly exaggerating the cap situation in TO
Nope.
$76,908,533 spent. 81.5M cap. UFA's: LW Kyle Clifford, C Jason Spezza, RD Codi Ceci, RD Tyson Barrie. RFA's: Teemu Kivihalme, Frédérik Gauthier, and Travis Dermott are the ones you have to re-sign but they also have: Denis Malgin, , Jeremy Bracco,
16 contracts so you need minimum of 6 players @ 4.591M to spend unless you acquire a LTIR.
Liljegren makes 0.863M so down to 3.728M and 5 to go. Say Spezza/another veteran signs for minimum salary of 750k that is 4 to go with 2.978. League minimum is 0.75 so can't do 4 of them with only 2.978. So now your roster is down to 21 players.
Options: Nicholas Robertson (850k but 19 and coming from the OHL), Yegor Korshkov (925k),
and did I mention you have to sign RFA's: Teemu Kivihalme ($792,500 last year), Frédérik Gauthier (below league minimum now), and Travis Dermott ($863,333)?
A $1,395,052 offer sheet requires no compensation so figure 1.395 is the minimum Dermott gets. A 4th line center figure 850k for Gauthier.
That leaves s for a total 733k so can't sign anyone and the team is shorthanded all season with only 20 players during a compressed schedule and your defense got worse.
Wanna bet they trade for a LTIR or move out a player for more cap room?
Prove me wrong show me the numbers.