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by Mike Chen on 03/05/09 at 12:31 PM ET
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Now we know how the rosters are going to look from here until the Stanley Cup is awarded…but what about after that? After all, only one team really gets to claim a successful season. Then it’s all about making trades at the draft and buying up free agents to re-shape your roster. Here’s a list of each team’s current cap hit for next year.
Keep in mind that the cap will apparently be staying very close to where it is now as a lot of this year’s revenues have already been accounted for (2010-11 is when the cap should drop assuming fans have less money to buy tickets in a poor economy). All numbers courtesy of NHL Numbers (check them out if you want to see how many holes your team will need to fill come July 1).
Anaheim 35.7
Atlanta 28.5
Boston 42.5
Buffalo 46.5
Carolina 46.3
Calgary 42.6
Chicago 36.2
Columbus 41.7
Colorado 43.7
Dallas 39.4
Detroit 47.3
Edmonton 43.9
Florida 38.0
Los Angeles 42.6
Minnesota 43.2
Montreal 23.4
Nashville 32.9
New Jersey 40.4
New York Islanders 30.8
New York Rangers 40.2
Ottawa 48.0
Philadelphia 53.5
Phoenix 35.2
Pittsburgh 46.4
San Jose 46.7
St. Louis 44.4
Tampa Bay 37.8
Toronto 41.2
Vancouver 31.3
Washington 45.9
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Further, NHL Numbers does not show the cap hit it shows the salary paid. For example, Detroit is listed as having Henrik Zetterberg at a cap hit of 7.4 million in 2009-2010. He’ll be paid 7.4, but he’s only a cap hit of 6 million due to the structuring of his contract.
Very interesting site to look at to see what a player is paid, for how long, and who all you’ve got under contract next year- but, sadly, it doesn’t show the actual cap hits very well for any year but the present.
Posted by shanetx on 03/05/09 at 02:53 PM ET
Hey Mike-
Inspired by my comments over at BoC a few days ago, I’m actually doing a similar thing using these numbers. Got an entire list of the salary commitments for next year, plus the number of players committed to. NHLNumbers isn’t actually fully updated yet, so these numbers are bunk. They have the players moved, but haven’t propagated the salary effects through the future years yet. For the best example, take a look at say, Calgary. I started collecting my numbers this past weekend, before a lot of the deals, and went in alphabetical order, so I already had Calgary listed as $42.60 committed to 15 players. If you look at NHL numbers today, it says the same thing, but they’re on the hook for Jokinen’s 5.25 cap hit next year, and didn’t trade away an identical amount of cap hit. If you had it up manually, Calgary’s number should actually be more like $46.02 / 15.
This is a problem with any team who made a move yesterday to acquire or get rid of a guy whose contract went beyond this year. Columbus still has LeClaire on the books for next year, for example, but not Vermette, even though he is listed there. I’m not sure what the deal is or why this isn’t working the way it ought to, but right now, the NHLnumbers data is worthless for any team that acquired or got rid of anyone whose contract goes beyond this year.
-IAmJoe
Posted by Joe on 03/05/09 at 03:08 PM ET
I just emailed NHLNumbers with a description of the problem, hopefully we can find out more about it soon. I’m gonna go crosspost this at Mirtle’s and see if there’s something I’m missing here.
Posted by Joe on 03/05/09 at 03:20 PM ET
That was quick.
Hey Joe,
I’m trying to find a fix for this.
Currently, the way I’m counting contracts for upcoming years is as follows: if a player has been on the roster for more than half the year, then his cap hit/salary will be counted for subsequent years. As you can tell, that won’t work with players who were recently traded to other teams because they haven’t been on the roster long enough.
I thought it would be a simple fix but it’s proving to be a pain. It should be fixed soon though.
Cheers,
Christian
Per my email a couple minutes ago to nhlnumbers. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. I got a nice big fanpost ready to go that is just waiting for these numbers.
Posted by Joe on 03/05/09 at 03:29 PM ET
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It would be helpful to look at the number of players committed under these numbers too… $30 MM committed to 17 players is very different than $30MM committed to six.
Posted by Anthony from New York on 03/05/09 at 12:56 PM ET