Wings Salaries & Cap Room

Player

Position

Age Salary
Nicklas Lidstrom D 37 $7,600,000
Pavel Datsyuk C 29 $6,700,000
Brian Rafalski D 34 $6,000,000
Niklas Kronwall D 26 $3,000,000
Henrik Zetterberg LW/C 26 $2,650,000
Dominik Hasek G 42 $2,500,000
Tomas Holmstrom RW/LW 34 $2,250,000
Kris Draper C 36 $2,128,000
Mikael Samuelsson RW 30 $1,200,000
Andreas Lilja D 32 $1,000,000
Johan Franzen C 27 $942,000
Kirk Maltby LW/RW 34 $883,000
Jiri Hudler C/LW 23 $880,000
Igor Grigorenko RW 24 $858,000
Chris Chelios D 45 $850,000
Chris Osgood G 34 $850,000
Valtteri Filppula C 23 $733,000
Dan Cleary LW/RW 28 $662,500
Bret Lebda D 28 $650,000
Dallas Drake LW/RW 38 $550,000
Tomas Kopecky C
25 $500,000

Salaries (21 players)
    $43,086,500
Hasek/Chelios bonuses     $116,000
Total Commited     $43,202,500
Desired Cap Reserve     $2,000,000
Total Commited + Reserve     $45,202,500
2007-2008 Salary Cap     $50,300,000
Amount avail. for UFAs     $5,097,500
       
Desirable UFAs and probable max salary the Wings would pay:
[Needed: defensive D-man & top-6 forward]
Alexei Yashin C/LW 34 $2,500,000
Andy Sutton Defensive D 32 $3,000,000
Danny Markov Defensive D 31 $3,000,000
Dick Tarnstrom Defensive D 32 $2,000,000
       
Wings prospects who might be the 7th defenseman
Derek Meech Defensive D 23 $500,000
Kyle Quincy Defensive D 21 $500,000
Jacob Kindl Offensive D 20 $500,000

Possible Line Combinations

Cleary – Datsyuk – Grigorenko
Hudler – Zetterberg – Holmstrom
Franzen – Filppula – Samuelsson
Maltby – Draper – Drake

Lidstrom – Lilja
Kronwal – Rafalski
Lebda – Chelios

Hasek – Osgood


Reserves: [Meech] &
Kopecky