So Regular Season starts this week and today, the teams had a deadline to fit everything to be cap compliant.
I say the Kings did well on that end. Got $1.25M to spare and it could grow into a good deadline acquisition if needed. Got 14F, 7D, and 2G. They even got Brandt Clarke (who they picked at #8 at the draft in 2021) on the main roster. He seems like he really wants to make an impression and had done well in rookie tournaments, preseason games, etc. to warrant the spot. I hope he can be an impact player that warrant him staying on the main roster and not have him go back to the Canadian leagues.
I'm looking at CapFriendly and stuff and the Leafs manage to get below the cap crunch. Made it with $4.00 to spare after using LTIR. They even had to put Wayne Simmonds on waivers (which I would have loved the Kings to take a look into claiming since even if he's not the same player he was when the Kings traded him in 2011, I still think he would be more effective in that 4th line role over a guy like Brendan Lemieux)
PROJECTED CAP HIT Tooltip : $84,649,996
PROJECTED LTIR USED Tooltip : $2,149,996
PROJECTED CAP SPACE Tooltip : $0
This season's trade deadline will probably be on the boring end with at least 10 teams being over the cap after using LTIR.