Quoting: Billy12Bob
You're way over the cap next year.
Sundqvist, Erne, Suter, and Oesterle all come off at $9.45M plus $3.1M in unused space plus $1-2M in increased cap should give us $13-15M to give raises to Larkin and Bertuzzi, and promote some prospects and sign some depth to replace those four. I think it is doable. Say Larkin and Bertuzzi get a combined total of $8M more after next season, which wouldn't be low. That still leaves us $5-7 for four spots with two of them probably going to prospects like Soderblom, Edvinsson, Wallinder, Niederbach, Mazur, etc. at less than $1M each.
Even if it isn't enough, I think Pettersson, Schmidt, and Hronek are tradeable assets and we have a ton of good defense prospects that are 1-3 years away to take their spots (Edvinsson, Wallinder, Johansson, Viro, Sebrango, Tuomisto, Buium-I think two being ready after this season would be a reasonable expectation). I think we would be able to make moves to get back below the cap and it wouldn't be that hard.