Here is my latest stab at it (Been away for a few days with this up in my browser working on it so it might be brilliant or completely irrelevant now):
I really hope the
Defense is upgraded:
Leafs 5th pick for NYI Dan Boyle. Sign Boyle for 2 years @ $5 MIL per
Trade Phaneuf retaining $1 MIL to Edm for 2014 3rd pick overall after talking to Florida and Buffalo and insure that Ekblad does the 'Seth Jones' and falls that to 3rd. Sign to 3 year ELC @ $0.925
Try:
Holland, Gardiner and Franson and the 2016 2nd Round Leaf pick to Nsh for Weber.
Realistically would have to try:
Kadri, Gardiner and Franson and the 2014 1st Round pick but I was trying to avoid that.
At Forward:
Sign UFA Stastny to a $7 MIL 7 year contract and hope he earns it every year as a 20 - 25 goal scorer with intangibles.
Replace Kadri with Holland, Gardiner with Brennan and Franson with Ekblad.
At Goal:
Reimer's value is at it's all time low. I would hang on to him and see if he can redeem his career.
CAPGEEK.COM ARMCHAIR GM ROSTER
FORWARDS
James Van Riemsdyk ($4.250m) / Paul Stastny ($7.000m) / Phil Kessel ($8.000m)
Joffrey Lupul ($5.250m) / Tyler Bozak ($4.200m) / Nikolai Kulemin ($3.000m)
Jerry D'Amigo ($0.851m) / Peter Holland ($1.200m) / David Clarkson ($5.250m)
Carter Ashton ($0.851m) / Jay McClement ($1.500m) / Troy Bodie ($0.700m)
Frazer McLaren ($0.700m) / Trevor Smith ($0.700m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Morgan Rielly ($0.894m) / Shea Weber ($7.857m)
Carl Gunnarsson ($3.150m) / Dan Boyle ($5.000m)
T.J. Brennan ($1.200m) / Aaron Ekblad ($0.925m)
Clayton Stoner ($1.200m)
GOALTENDERS
Jonathan Bernier ($2.900m)
James Reimer ($1.600m)
BUYOUTS
Mike Komisarek ($0.000m)
Mikhail Grabovski ($0.000m)
Tim Gleason ($0.833m)
RETAINED SALARIES (1.48% of upper limit)
Dion Phaneuf ($1.050m?15.00%)
BONUS OVERAGE
$0
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(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $71,100,000; CAP PAYROLL: $70,060,643; BONUSES: $850,000
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $1,039,357