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• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Metalhead.

***update with Soderblom contract***

The 25/26 NHL Cap Floor is $70.6 million.
Here is a list of player salaries, shown in $ millions.
This is based on capwages.com, but showing likely roster spots

(13) forwards:
5.50 Bertuzzi
5.50 Burakovsky
5.40 Teuvo
4.50 Foligno
4.25 Dickinson
4.04 Mikheyev
4.00 Donato
2.00 Lafferty
1.20 Reichel (only because he is not waivers exempt, might be gone via trade or waiver claim)
0.95 Bedard
0.95 Nazar
0.95 Greene
0.94 Moore
40.18 total

(8) defense
7.86 Weber (Hawks acquired his contract to help them get to the cap floor)
4.60 Vlasic
4.40 Murphy
2.80 Kaiser (RFA without arb rights, price depends on length of contract)
0.92 Korchinski
0.98 Levshunov
0.91 Rinzel
0.86 Del Mastro
23.33 total

(2) goalies
4.50 Knight
2.75 Soderblom
7.25 total

(1) retained salary
2.50 Jones

(1) buyout
3.23 Brodie

$76.59 million total, $5.99 million above the cap floor.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Metalhead.
• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Metalhead.

Brossoit would not count if they put him on LTIR.

I created a roster of 23 players assuming Brossoit is still injured.
If Brossoit is healthy, they could:
a) try to trade him (won’t get much, if anything)
b) send him to the AHL (he might get claimed going through waivers but they likely wouldn’t care)
c) keep 3 goalies on the NHL roster, and send the Weber contract to LTIR. They would still be above the cap floor.

Note: Capwages and Puckpedia are not very useful for the Blackhawks roster reference in-summer.

Capwages:
currently shows a 25 man roster (not allowed in-season)
currently shows 4 goalies (very unlikely)

Puckpedia:
currently shows a 22 man roster (unlikely for a cap floor team)
currently shows only 12 forwards, incl Dominic Toninato (does not make sense)

My above roster, though not perfect, is a 23 man roster with a more likely player lineup.