Babcock's Preliminary 2008-2009 Line Combos
Names in italic are not yet signed

Holmstrom – Datsyuk – Hossa
Hudler – Zetterberg – Franzen
Cleary – Filppula – Samuelsson
Maltby/McCarty – Draper – Kopecky

Lidstrom – Rafalski
Kronwal – Stuart
Lebda/Meech – Lilja/Chelios

Osgood - Conklin

In Grand Rapids: Howard, Downey, Helm, Leino, Ericsson


Wings Salaries & Cap Room

Player

Position

Age Salary
Nicklas Lidstrom D 38 $7,450,000
Marian Hossa RW 29 $7,450,000
Pavel Datsyuk C 29 $6,700,000
Brian Rafalski D 35 $6,000,000
Brad Stuart D 29 $3,750,000
Niklas Kronwall D 27 $3,000,000
Valtteri Filppula C 24 $3,000,000
Dan Cleary LW/RW 30 $2,800,000
Henrik Zetterberg LW/C 27 $2,650,000
Tomas Holmstrom RW/LW 35 $2,250,000
Kris Draper C 37 $1,583,000
Chris Osgood G 35 $1,417,000
Andreas Lilja D 33 $1,250,000
Mikael Samuelsson RW 31 $1,200,000
Jiri Hudler C/LW 24 $1,015,000
Johan Franzen C 28 $942,000
Kirk Maltby LW/RW 35 $883,000
Chris Chelios D 46 $750,000
Ty Conklin G 28 $750,000
Bret Lebda D 29 $650,000
Tomas Kopecky C
26 $500,000
Kyle Quincey D 24 $525,000
Derek Meech D
24 $483,000

Salaries (23 players)
    $56,998,000
2008-2009 Salary Cap     $56,700,000
Amount available     [$298,000]
       
Roster players still to be signed
Darren McCarty RW 36 [$585,000]
 
In Grand Rapids:
Justin Abdelkader LW - $850,000
Jonathan Ericsson D 24 $900,000
Aaron Downey RW - $500,000
Darren Helm C 21 $599,444
Jimmy Howard G 24 $716,667
Jakub Kindl D - $821,677
Ville Leino LW 25 $875,000