ahh yes, Toto. my mistake.

thoughts on RHCP?
- Don'tForgetTocchet

Never been a fan of them either.

Never been a fan of them either.
- aightwebang17

excellent now we've got a good debate forming...

ahh yes, Toto. my mistake.

thoughts on RHCP?
- Don'tForgetTocchet

Love RHCP. I think their fantastic.

Love RHCP. I think their fantastic.
- MJL

they should have called it quits like four guitar players ago.

they should have called it quits like four guitar players ago.
- OrangeBlack27

Nah, I just watched a recent event they played in Dublin in a nice little theater. They were fantastic.

In order to give an idea of the Flyers Cap situation, I did a little number crunching. Mainly to show the difference between the Regular Season and the off season. First will be a sample roster for the Season. I used the rumored 69M Cap figure. With Pronger on LTIR. And estimated deals for Voracek and Carle. Notice that the Flyers have over 3M of available Cap space with the 22 man roster. This does not include the LTIR allowance that the Flyers could use if needed. Which could give them an additional 4,921,429 of Cap space to use. And once a player such as Schenn misses a game, or doesn't play 25 minutes of icetime, his Cap hit would drop to 1.75. Giving them even more space. So the FLyers for the Season have plenty of Cap space to work with. Here's the roster.

CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR ROSTER
My Custom Lineup
FORWARDS
James Van Riemsdyk ($4.250m) / Claude Giroux ($3.750m) / Scott Hartnell ($4.200m)
Wayne Simmonds ($1.750m) / Danny Briere ($6.500m) / Matt Read ($0.900m)
Jakub Voracek ($3.500m) / Sean Couturier ($1.375m) / Brayden Schenn ($3.110m)
Eric Wellwood ($0.580m) / Maxime Talbot ($1.750m) / Zac Rinaldo ($0.544m)
Jody Shelley ($1.100m)
DEFENSEMEN
Kimmo Timonen ($6.333m) / Matt Carle ($5.000m)
Braydon Coburn ($4.500m) / Nicklas Grossmann ($3.500m)
Erik Gustafsson ($0.900m) / Andrej Meszaros ($4.000m)
Andreas Lilja ($0.738m) /
GOALTENDERS
Ilya Bryzgalov ($5.667m)
Sergei Bobrovsky ($1.750m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $69,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $65,696,944; BONUSES: $3,555,000
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $3,303,056


Now comes the off season. Here are the rules for who has to be accounted for in the Off Season.

Teams can exceed the salary cap's upper limit by 10 percent during the off-season. The following count toward the team's cap payroll:

All players on one-way contracts, regardless of where (or if) they were playing the previous year.
All players on two-way contracts, in proportion to the number of days spent on an NHL roster the previous season.
All restricted free agents who have been extended a qualifying offer (while the offer is valid), with one-way qualifying offers counting in full and two-way qualifying offers counting as described in No. 2.
All restricted free agents signed to an offer sheet (such players count against the team extending the offer sheet while it is still valid).
All buyouts.


So using those rules and adding up the numbers. The Flyers must as of right now carry a total 67,821,039 for the Off Season. With the 10% allowance, if the Cap is 69M. That would be a total of 75.9M maximum each team could carry.

So 75,900,000 - 67,821,039 = 8,078,961 which is the total of Off Season Cap space the Flyers have to work with. Now sign Carle to a deal just as a round number, at 5M. That leaves the Flyers with about 3M to work with after that.
- MJL

so expect to see shelley, walker, and our first round pick traded at the draft for future considerations. got it