Stepan, Ryan and Phaneuf take up about 12 million. Then I think the rest of the team is a little above 50 million, so that's 62 million. Min cap is 60.2 million.
- PogBoi

Not sure also if your totals also include Gaborik and all the other LTIR people too still we used t carry (Callahan, etc.) as well?

That claim for Mete may have been in part to push them back above the min limit too, based on the outward moves.

It terms of what Dorion brought in this year, was it really that big of a mess?

Ottawa did not have any serviceable defence in the system ready to step up and play. They needed to bring in someone.

So he brought in some very replaceable players for lower picks, got some games out of them while help was incoming, and moved them out for very late picks.

You can't really compare it in a strict picks in picks out framework, because it ignores all the games you got out of them.
- david22

And the frequency of bonehead penalties and defensive errors required to be in the lottery range again for the third year running. Can't begin to measure the value of that over the long run as Chicago, Pittsburgh et. al will tell you from the mid 2000s.