The longer this season goes, the more I've been reminding my fellow Wings fans that the salary cap is going down from $70.2 million to $64.3 million this summer. It's probably going to stay at that level for some time as the NHLPA's share of the NHL's hockey-related revenues drops to 50% and stays there.
As such, even Detroit's $18.3 million in cap space, per Capgeek.com, becomes a tight fit despite the fact that the Wings are already $7.79 million under the current cap, with players like Valtteri Filppula, Jimmy Howard, Damien Brunner, Danny Cleary, Drew Miller and Ian White as their unrestricted free agents-to-be, and players like Brendan Smith, Brian Lashoff, Joakim Andersson and Gustav Nyquist coming off their entry-level deals. Continue reading "Brooks ponders an amnesty buyout scenario involving Brad Richards"
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