Quoting: BreKel
Yes, but the cap is going up, players will be coming off their deals and will walk, and how much of a raise are some of these players really going to warrant?
Riley Nash - $900k
Sean Kuraly - $808k
Tim Schaller - $775K
Tommy WIngles - $750k
Noel Acciari - $750k
Brian Gionta - $700k
Zdeno Chara - $4 million
Adam McQuaid - $2.75 million
Matt Grzelcyk - $860k
Nick Holden - $1.65 million
Anton Khudobin - $1.2 million
In the next 2 years I see roughly $15 million coming off the books (not including all the ELC's). In total we have $61.5 million committed going into the 19-20 season. Say the cap goes up to $83 million over the next two seasons. Roughly $21.5 million in cap space.
Chara - at minimum gets what he's getting this year, maybe even closer to $5 million.
new space = $16.5 million
McAvoy - If he keep trending up like many expect, he'll be getting Pasta type money. Jones signed for $5.4 recently and with the cap going up, $6 to $6.5 might be on the low side
new space = $10 million
Carlo - Shouldn't break the bank unless he find a scoring touch his final year or becomes an elite shutdown d-man. Even still a conservative number is $3 million
new space = $7 million
So now we have $7 million to spend and the following still left to sign:
Donato
Heinen
JFK
Fitzgerald
Ceharlik
McIntyre
The one thing that would help Boston is Krejci & Backes both go from NMC's to M-NTC's and maybe you can move out one of them. The other option is where are guys like Vaak, Lauzon & Zboril at? If they are in NHL roles, maybe you move on from Krug as he'll be in the last year of his deal. There's options, but we can't keep everyone. That's part of the reason I think Sweeney is going to have to do something major here soon.