The 2009-2010 Avalanche [Updated]

by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jul 1, 2009 7:25 AM MDT in News Comment 8 comments

Here's a final update of the Avs salary cap situation going into today's free agency feeding frenzy. I've corrected Cumiskey's cap number and removed Michael Vernace as it appears he was not tendered a QO on Monday. I've also updated the salary cap to $56.8 million, although I will be extremely shocked if the Avs spend up to the cap max.

Roughly, the Avalanche have about $9.5 million to add about 5 players (either through free agency or promotion from within the organization). However, at least three of those slots project to be towards the bottom level of the depth chart (meaning low salaries).

	LW		C		RW
1	Ryan Smyth *	6.250	Paul Stastny	6.600	Milan Hejduk *	3.900
2			Wojtek Wolski	2.800	Marek Svatos	2.050
3	Chris Stewart	0.850	T.J. Hensick	0.850	David Jones §	0.605
4	Cody McLeod	1.033			Darcy Tucker	2.250
Res

	D		D
1	Scott Hannan *	4.500	John-Michael Liles *	4.200
2	Brett Clark	3.500	Ruslan Salei	3.025
3	Adam Foote *	3.000
Res	Kyle Cumiskey §	0.523

	G
1
2	Peter Budaj	1.250

	Under Contract	17
	Estimated Hit	47.186
	Estimated Cap	56.800
	Cap Space	9.614
	Change	1.633

	* denotes NTC
	§ denotes RFA

	Other Notables
F	T.J. Galiardi	0.875
F	Ryan Stoa	0.850
D	Wes O'Neill	0.815
D	Ray Macias	0.585
D	Derek Peltier	0.512

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Everyone using the TSN tracker?

Also what time does this all begin?

The 2008-2009 Colorado Avalanche: Slumpbusters

by Jibblescribbits on Jul 1, 2009 7:28 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

yes, and noon eastern

Hyphens cause writers more trouble than any other form of punctuation, except perhaps commas.

by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jul 1, 2009 7:30 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

2 & 1/2 hours

But I want it now!

The 2008-2009 Colorado Avalanche: Slumpbusters

by Jibblescribbits on Jul 1, 2009 7:35 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry Jibs…they are waiting for me to get off of work, I’m just that important…or something

by chiavsfan on Jul 1, 2009 7:57 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

You got 1/2 the day off? I really should be able to take a holiday-day for this

The 2008-2009 Colorado Avalanche: Slumpbusters

by Jibblescribbits on Jul 1, 2009 8:05 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

No no, I start work at 3:30 AM (Central time)…and I get home at noon (Central time). The joys of morning radio news.

by chiavsfan on Jul 1, 2009 8:07 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not much going on here at the non-profit today, so I’ll have it up. I’m really hoping that the Preds can keep Sully…

by Mrs @ MHH on Jul 1, 2009 8:02 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

My boss already left for vacation yesterday, so other than the misery of fluorescent lights and toner stench, it’s the perfect day in the office to watch free agency unfold.

One down, three to go

by FiveJeffFingerDiscount on Jul 1, 2009 8:17 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs