NHL Cap numbers per Team

[azwingsfan 0]

Just thought I would pass this on it seams pretty acurate.

http://www.nhlnumbers.com/index.html

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http://www.nhlscap.com/

[Detroit # 1 Fan 2,204]

Am I the only one amazed the Rangers have 9 million left to spend?

[YoungGuns1340 1]

Am I the only one amazed the Rangers have 9 million left to spend?

I guess if you expected them to play with only 9 forwards, then yes, but its not like they only have scrubs left to re-sign

Shanahan - near 30 goal scorer

Avery - 48 points (in 84 games), 20 points in 29 games with the Rags

Lundqvist - 2 Vezina noms in his first 2 years in the NHL

Prucha - 40 point sophomore

Marcel Hossa is the only cheap player they have left to sign. Thats 5 players, 9M, and Lundqvist will probably take at least a third of that.

EDIT: Petr Prucha just signed a 2 year, 3.2M deal, so I guess its now 8.4 to sign 4 players.

Edited July 7, 2007 by YoungGuns1340

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An article from today's New York Post on the NYR salary cap challenges, and this doesn't even mention Hossa:

By LARRY BROOKS

July 8, 2007 -- In a best-case scenario, the Rangers would not have chosen to engage in a one-year salary arbitration case with Henrik Lundqvist.

But in the context of the NHL's $50.3 million hard salary cap under which the Blueshirts have approximately $9 million to sign the goaltender, Brendan Shanahan and Sean Avery - then actually operate next season - the team has little choice.

Even if it will ultimately cost considerably more to sign Lundqvist to a long-term deal in order to prevent the franchise goaltender from hitting the 2009 open market, the Rangers simply cannot now absorb the $5-5.25 million that would lock him up.

Under arbitration, the two-year pro is likely to receive between $2.2-$2.5 million, with comparables Ryan Miller (a conference finalist each of his first two seasons) and Cam Ward (a Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe winner in the first of his two seasons) both earning $2.667 million per.

That sum would buy time for the Rangers, who could begin negotiations with No. 30 on a long-term extension any time after Jan. 1 without absorbing an additional 2007-08 cap hit. It also would buy time for Glen Sather to make roster moves.

First-pair defenseman Marek Malik, who has one year at $2.5 million remaining, isn't likely to be dumped, even to make room for free agent Sheldon Souray. But if Marc Staal has a good enough camp, Sather probably will shop third-pair defenseman Paul Mara, who has one year at $3 million remaining.

Further, if the Rangers are wildly impressed in September by Artem Anisimov or Brandon Dubinsky, Sather could test the market on third-line center Matt Cullen, who has three years to go at $2.85 million per.