cap accrual is pretty simple, just a lot of bookkeeping
the season is ~190 days and the trade deadline is usually ~40 days before the end of the season. for every day you're a million under the cap you "bank" about $11,400. if you're 1 million under the cap from day one until the trade deadline you'll have about 1.7m to spend. however, there's only 40 days left in the season so you only need to pay the players you pick up about 22% of their contracts so you actually get to spend about 7.8m
can the canucks get 1m under the cap tho? probably not
their most probable roster is pettersson, miller, boeser, debrusk, garland, joshua, heinen, blueger, suter, sherwood, hoglander, pdg and podkolzin or aman up front and hughes, hronek, soucy, myers, desharnais, forbort and juulsen or friedman on d. demko and patera or silovs in net. that's only 22 and they'll probably carry 23 but for now assume a 22 man roster
that's 82m. there's also a little over 3m in dead cap and tucker poolman at another 2.5m
that's 87.5 or just over 500k in cap space or just under 4m in deadline cap room
the canucks could send players down on off days but they have zero waiver eligible players in that list above (except silovs, but if you send him down you need to bring up another goalie). maybe you could get aman/pdg or friedman/juulsen through waivers but it's probably not worth the risk. they'd have to cut pdg or aman and play karlsson or bains instead. if you can paper them down half the time you can squeeze out another 1.5m in deadline space though
the other problem is that you can't use ltir to replace players if you want to build up cap space. any injured players need to go on regular ir and while you can call up players to replace them the canucks probably won't have the cap space to do so without leveraging ltir (at which point you can't accrue)
tl;dr poolman probably has to go if the canucks are going to try to create cap space by running under the cap up to the deadline
the season is ~190 days and the trade deadline is usually ~40 days before the end of the season. for every day you're a million under the cap you "bank" about $11,400. if you're 1 million under the cap from day one until the trade deadline you'll have about 1.7m to spend. however, there's only 40 days left in the season so you only need to pay the players you pick up about 22% of their contracts so you actually get to spend about 7.8m
can the canucks get 1m under the cap tho? probably not
their most probable roster is pettersson, miller, boeser, debrusk, garland, joshua, heinen, blueger, suter, sherwood, hoglander, pdg and podkolzin or aman up front and hughes, hronek, soucy, myers, desharnais, forbort and juulsen or friedman on d. demko and patera or silovs in net. that's only 22 and they'll probably carry 23 but for now assume a 22 man roster
that's 82m. there's also a little over 3m in dead cap and tucker poolman at another 2.5m
that's 87.5 or just over 500k in cap space or just under 4m in deadline cap room
the canucks could send players down on off days but they have zero waiver eligible players in that list above (except silovs, but if you send him down you need to bring up another goalie). maybe you could get aman/pdg or friedman/juulsen through waivers but it's probably not worth the risk. they'd have to cut pdg or aman and play karlsson or bains instead. if you can paper them down half the time you can squeeze out another 1.5m in deadline space though
the other problem is that you can't use ltir to replace players if you want to build up cap space. any injured players need to go on regular ir and while you can call up players to replace them the canucks probably won't have the cap space to do so without leveraging ltir (at which point you can't accrue)
tl;dr poolman probably has to go if the canucks are going to try to create cap space by running under the cap up to the deadline
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