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That cap hit's at 82.4M
Forwards 43.5M
Defense 26.5M
Goalies 4.2M
All that combined is only at 74.2M. I rounded up the smaller figures.
There's roughly 8.2M that's unaccounted for, and that is Landeskog + O'Connor.
Nichushkin is the one who doesn't count towards their cap right now, because he's in the player assistance program. I didn't know about that rule, but that's the only reasonable explanation mathematically.
So when Nichushkin leaves that program and rejoins them, their cap jumps to 88.9M, which is 900k over the cap. At that point they would still only have 11F, 5D, 2G.
Since you can only go 10% over in the off-season, that would put their ceiling at 96.8M while conducting any operations. That would leave them 7.9M wiggle room in the off-season to fill in the missing positions. Then they would wait for the start of the season for the relief from the 2 LTIR guys, to become cap compliant.
The real issue arises if Landeskog is good to go in October, which is what Seravelli is inferring will happen. You'd need to clear 8 mil, yet still fill the positions you just unloaded to clear that 8 mil.
And that still doesn't account for the missing positions that need filled outside of that.
So yeah, it's bad. Really bad.