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How are the Flames looking cap-wise?
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Ryan Pike
Oct 9, 2016, 11:00 EDTUpdated: Invalid DateTime
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The National Hockey League roster deadline is this coming Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. MT. At that time, teams must be both compliant with the league’s roster requirements and with their salary cap requirements.
With a few days and a few decisions remaining, how are the Calgary Flames looking in respect to their cap compliance?
Here’s a handy table with all current roster players in numerical order. All cap hits via General Fanager.
No.
Player
Pos.
Cap Hit
1
Brian Elliott
G
$2,500,000
3
Jyrki Jokipaka
D
$900,000
5
Mark Giordano
D
$6,750,000
6
Dennis Wideman
D
$5,250,000
7
T.J. Brodie
D
$4,650,400
8
Nicklas Grossmann
D
n/a (PTO)
10
Linden Vey
RW
$700,000
11
Mikael Backlund
C
$3,575,000
13
Johnny Gaudreau
LW
n/a (RFA)
15
Ladislav Smid
D
$3,500,000
17
Lance Bouma
LW
$2,200,000
18
Matt Stajan
C
$3,125,000
19
Matthew Tkachuk
LW
$925,000
20
Chris Higgins
LW
n/a (PTO)
21
Lauri Korpikoski
RW
n/a (PTO)
23
Sean Monahan
C
$6,375,000
25
Freddie Hamilton
RW
$613,500
27
Dougie Hamilton
D
$5,750,000
29
Deryk Engelland
D
$2,916,666
31
Chad Johnson
G
$1,700,000
36
Troy Brouwer
RW
$4,500,000
39
Alex Chiasson
RW
$800,000
52
Brandon Bollig
LW
$1,250,000
61
Brett Kulak
D
$656,666
67
Michael Frolik
RW
$4,300,000
79
Micheal Ferland
LW
$825,000
93
Sam Bennett
C
$925,000
—
Mason Raymond buyout
—
$1,050,000
—
2015-16 cap overage
—
$630,500
TOTAL
—
$66,367,732
Cap Space
—
$6,632,268
This roster includes 27 players – two goalies, nine defensemen and 16 forwards – but only 23 players with contracts (excluding Gaudreau, Grossmann, Higgins and Korpikoski. Fundamentally speaking, it’s a valid NHL roster.
  • Daniel Pribyl (knee) is likely going to be declared non-roster on Tuesday. Since he spent zero days in the NHL last season, none of his cap hit counts against the Flames’ total. He’s a non-issue.
  • Ladislav Smid (neck) is likely also going to be declared non-roster on Tuesday. Since he spent last season in the NHL, his entire cap hit could count unless the Flames decide to put him on the long-term injured reserve. For a multitude of reasons, I imagine they don’t want to do that: it’s essentially the payday loan of cap compliance in the sense that it gets you what you need, but it’s messy and complicated in an administrative sense, and really handcuffs your ability to do other things cap-wise. Long story short: it’s a mechanism they can use, but they probably don’t want to begin the season by using it to balance their books because it eliminates a lot of their flexibility.
  • Sam Bennett, Brett Kulak and Linden Vey are now waiver exempt – Vey because he cleared waivers. My current working theory is that when/if Gaudreau signs, Vey drops down to the AHL (and no other moves will be made). My reasoning is two-fold: Vey has Gaudreau’s locker stall and his likely linemates of Sean Monahan and Micheal Ferland. If you accept the premise that Vey is a placeholder body right now, functionally-speaking the Flames have $7,332,268 of cap space to use on Gaudreau… and short-term injury replacements throughout the year (barring other moves).

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