Salaries for 2011/12 (guesstimates)

[puckhead]

made this up for another thread on the main board, figured I'd pop it in here for discussion / reference too.

quick guesstimate work on capgeek's calculator. assumptions:
- Manny is back
- Salo is not
- random utility forward - I used Higgins as example/placeholder, at $1.2m. I don't think he'll have teams beating down his door.
- my salary estimates a indicated with a *

CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR

FORWARDS
Henrik Sedin ($6.100m) / Daniel Sedin ($6.100m) / Alexandre Burrows ($2.000m)
Mason Raymond ($2.550m) / Ryan Kesler ($5.000m) / Mikael Samuelsson ($2.500m)
Manny Malhotra ($2.500m) / Cody Hodgson ($1.666m) / Jannik Hansen* ($1.000m)
Tanner Glass* ($0.850m) / Victor Oreskovich* ($0.575m) / Maxim Lapierre* ($0.900m)
/ / Chris Higgins* ($1.200m)

DEFENSEMEN
Dan Hamhuis ($4.500m) / Keith Ballard ($4.200m)
Alexander Edler ($3.250m) / Kevin Bieksa* ($4.250m)
Chris Tanev ($0.900m) / Christian Ehrhoff* ($4.500m)
Aaron Rome ($0.750m)

GOALTENDERS
Roberto Luongo ($5.333m) / Cory Schneider ($0.900m)

CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $62,200,000; CAP PAYROLL: $61,524,999; BONUSES: $850,000
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $675,001

 

[merlynbc]

Might there be a place for Parent too??

 

[mattola]

do you really think we will resign both Bieksa and Ehrhoff or are you more thinking that is what we are going to be paying for those 2 positions?

 

[puckhead]

Might there be a place for Parent too??

From what he showed in his early look, I don't consider that a given. we'll see in camp, I guess.
he's at 900k if he makes the cut.

do you really think we will resign both Bieksa and Ehrhoff or are you more thinking that is what we are going to be paying for those 2 positions?

Ehrhoff is the priority - I think MG or AV have even said that publicly recently.
I don't know about Bieksa.. he's been rumoured to be on his way out the door for 3 years now... it just doesn't seem to happen (not that I'm wishing him out anymore).
If he moves anywhere, i can see Burke signing him to a silly contract. If that's the case, then yeah, that's a placeholder. And maybe Salo stays on for one more year. That's a hell of a lot of rehab to come back for a few months. He missed enough games that he is eligible for a bonus laden contract, to that could work better for our cap anyways.

 

[mattola]

yeah I see him making $4.5 to $5M for Toronto for sure.

Ehrhoff is my priority.