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So, linking / adding pics really is kinda sucky here, eh?

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Hello all. Blackhawk guy here, invited by Kicksave to hang out.

‘sup?

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‘preciate it !
I’ve browsed thru a lot of the Habs forum chatter.
It seems very friendly from what I can tell.

The Sexual Chicken Guy conversations can get a bit weird but I’m willing to give it a try!

See you there soon.

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A warm thanks and hello to you Kicksave.
I’ve seen you mostly on the Habs forum, no?

I’m a Blackhawks guy but nobody showed up there yet.
Hopefully they get it together on this site and build it up proper.

cheers

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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.

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***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.

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List looks great now ! Save cap room ! Help is only a contract away !
I doubt it will look great next June. Will update occasionally as extensions or sign/trade deals happen.

Yes Gladys, there are some less desirable 2026 UFAs on this list.
They are there to help show how the list diminishes before 07/01/2026.

“Already Extended” list:
Thatcher Demko

“Pending UFAs” list:
Connor McDavid
Kirill Kaprizov
Kyle Connor
Martin Necas
Adrian Kempe
Andre Kuzmenko
Rasmus Andersson
Jack Eichel
Alex Tuch
Adam Lowry
Patrik Laine
Artemi Panarin
Jacob Trouba
John Carlson
Viktor Arvidsson
Oliver Bjorkstrand
Christian Dvorak
Anders Lee
Boone Jenner
Mike Matheson
Mattias Ekholm
Cam Fowler
Evander Kane
Vlad Tarasenko
Carson Soucy
Adam Henrique
Jake Walman
Charlie Coyle
Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Mathieu Joseph
Trevor van Riemsdyk
Mason Marchment
Radko Gudas
Nick Schmaltz
Jamie Oleksiak
Alex Wennberg
Alex Kerfoot
Michael Bunting
Erik Gudbranson
Ilya Mikheyev
Matt Dumba
Jaden Schwartz
Jordan Eberle
Luke Schenn
Logan Stanley
Connor Murphy
Jeff Skinner
***Goalies***
Ivan Fedotov
Anthony Stolarz
Stuart Skinner
Scott Wedgewood
Connor Ingram
Vitek Vanacek
Jacob Markstrom
Freddy Andersen
Petr Mrazek
***old guys***
Alex Ovechkin
Evgeni Malkin
Patrick Kane
Anze Kopitar

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