Damn, could have saved me time. Someone is trying to argue with me that they only have the $2.3 mil in space the team page shows and that their IR guys aren't counting. I would have thought adding the numbers together would be easy, but apparently visual aids are needed.

Perhaps multiple visual aids from multiple posters will help, then?

Basically if Laine takes up $7.5M this year, they would need to shed about $1.3M, (inserting Laine and moving Olivier down) but probably would need to shed more, like Nyquist's salary, to be more comfortably under the cap.
In 2023 though, the 4 big contracts they would need to handle would be Tex, Gav, Peeke, and Laine, especially if Tex continues to break out
(not sure what his personal issues/leave was all about, but I could see him possibly bolting back to Europe like Hofmann did).
There won't be enough $$$ to go around if the cap only goes up another $1.5M-$2.0M.
That Gudbranson contract of $4M is about twice as high as it should be, and really hurts them.
Also, IMO, Marchenko seems to be much more likely to stay up and play over Chinakov