Buds Board Keepers League

Artemi Panarin	Evgeny Kuznetsov	Dylan Larkin
Patrik Laine	Kyle Turris 	Mats Zuccarello
Sebastian Aho 	Erik Haula 	Viktor Arvidsson
Lars Eller	William Karlsson

Roman Josi	Erik Karlsson (I)
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	Colton Parayko
Jonas Brodin	John Klingberg
Marco Scandella

Steve Mason
Scott Darling

Scratches:  Patrick Eaves, Robert Bortuzzo

Salary Cap: $72,850,831
LTIR Relief: $631,666
Total Salary: $72,219,165
Cap Space: $780,835
Floor Space: $18,219,165
Contracts: 47/50
Players: 84/90

Artemi Panarin	Evgeny Kuznetsov	Patric Hornqvist
Patrik Laine	Tyler Johnson	Mats Zuccarello
Viktor Arvidsson	Kyle Turris	Patrick Eaves
Lars Eller	Erik Haula

Roman Josi	Erik Karlsson
Josh Manson	Colton Parayko
Marco Scandella	John Klingberg
Jonas Brodin	

Steve Mason
Scott Darling

Scratches:  Ales Hemsky, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Robert Bortuzzo

Salary Cap: $73,475,831
LTIR Relief: $825,000
Total Salary: $72,650,831
Cap Space: $349,169
Floor Space: $18,650,831
Contracts: 47/50
Players: 84/90

kyuss wroteCOLONStart of the 2013/2014 season

Marcus Johansson - Evgeni Malkin - Marian Gaborik
Benoit Pouliot - Henrik Zetterberg - Ales Hemsky
Mats Zuccarello - Brad Richards - Dainius Zubrus
Brad Richardson - Nick Bonino - Eric Fehr

Jonas Brodin Raphael Diaz
John Erskine Alexei Emelin
Patrick Wiercioch Marco Scandella

Sergei Bobrovsky
Marek Mazanec

bench: T.J. Galiardi, Peter Regin, Magnus Paajarvi

cap spent: around 63.1 M



After 2014 deadline

Marcus Johansson - Evgeni Malkin - Mats Zuccarello
M.Granlund - Henrik Zetterberg - G.Nyquist
N.Niederreiter/Pouliot - Brad Richards - Ales Hemsky
R.Torres - Nick Bonino - Dainius Zubrus

R.Josi - Raphael Diaz
Jonas Brodin - Alexei Emelin
John Erskine - S.Vatanen

Sergei Bobrovsky
C.McIlhenny

bench: Brad Richardson, TJ Galiardi, Magnus Paajarvi

cap spent: around 63 M


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The main thing for me was freeing up space and cap to bring up Josi, along with Granlund and Nyquist.

As far as the lineup goes, basically it is Josi in for Scandella, Torres in for Fehr, Nyquist in for Vanek, Granlund in for Richardson, Nino in for Pouliot (depending on injuries), and got Bob's backup. Plus, maybe the biggest benefit, the added flexibility to shape the weekly lineup.

Eventually, going from Vanek to Nyquist was the sacrifice needed to make it work.

If not for the reduced cap, the plan for the season would have been going into a more aggressive buying mode, but with the cap so low basically i would have needed to lose Richards and Hemsky for peanuts in order to be able to overspend and make my playoffs lineup stronger.
I guess next season will offer a better opportunity for that.