by DesertPenguin on Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:09 pm
Trading Niskanen, demoting Glass (costing us only 175K in dead money) would have freed sufficient space to offer Morrow this contract. There is still enough space (barely) to fit Zatkoff onto the roster until Vokoun qualifies for LTIR, which then frees up even more space.
CAPGEEK.COM USER GENERATED ROSTER
My Custom Lineup
FORWARDS
Jussi Jokinen ($2.100m) / Evgeni Malkin ($8.700m) / James Neal ($5.000m)
Chris Kunitz ($3.725m) / Sidney Crosby ($8.700m) / Pascal Dupuis ($3.750m)
Brenden Morrow ($1.500m) / Brandon Sutter ($2.067m) / Beau Bennett ($0.900m)
Craig Adams ($0.700m) / Joe Vitale ($0.550m) / Matt D'Agostini ($0.550m)
Dustin Jeffrey ($0.625m)
DEFENSEMEN
Paul Martin ($5.000m) / Brooks Orpik ($3.750m)
Kris Letang ($3.500m) / Rob Scuderi ($3.375m)
Robert Bortuzzo ($0.600m) / Simon Despres ($0.840m)
Deryk Engelland ($0.567m) /
GOALTENDERS
Marc-Andre Fleury ($5.000m)
Tomas Vokoun ($2.000m)
Jeff Zatkoff ($0.538m)
OTHER
Buried: Tanner Glass ($0.175m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $64,210,833; BONUSES: $0
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $89,167