The Real Cap Situation!
People have been saying that the Leafs only have 1.8 million left in cap room well they are wrong!
I did the math and it turns out the Buds have about $4,100,000 in cap room.
You see people have been looking at the 7.6 million dollar salary for Sundin and the 7.15 million dollar salary for McCabe and have been adding that total to the cap, but only the average is counted against the cap!
So here are the salaries for the 2006/07:
PLAYERS 06/07 SALARY
Antropov, Nik: $1,007,000
Aubin, J.S: $589,000
Belak, Wade: $675,000
Coliacovo, Carlo: $901,740
Gill, Hall: $2,050,000
Kaberle, Tomas: $4,250,000
Kilger, Chad: $1,200,000
Kronwall, Staffan: $612,000
Kubina, Pavel: $5,000,000
McCabe, Bryan: $5,700,000
Ondrus, Ben: $450,000
O’Neill, Jeff: $1,500,000
Peca, Mike: $2,500,000
Pohl, John: $450,000
Ponikarovsky, Alex: $725,000
Raycroft, Andrew: $1,800,000
Steen, Alexander: $770,180
Sundin, Mats: $6,800,000
Tucker, Darcy: $1,596,000
Tellqvist, Mikael: $589,000
Wellwood, Kyle: $800,000
Total Salary: $39,964,920
Cap Room: $4,035,080
If the Leafs were to re-sign Matt Stajan for $800,000 they would have about $3,235,080 in
salary cap room.
If JFJ wants to keep around 1.5 million dollars in cap room open and still sign Anson Carter here is a good strategy:
In the new NHL, GM’s are offering players a long term contract in exchange for taking a paycut, so maybe JFJ can offer Carter a 3-year/6 million dollar deal which would leave the Leafs with $1,235,080 in cap room!
There is the Leafs cap situation and a way for the Leafs to sign Carter!