The New Jersey Devils are going into the NHL offseason with an amazing amount of cap space. CapFriendly just updated their website to have an $83 million 2019-20 cap, and that leaves the Devils with $35 million in cap space.
Yeah, that’s not a typo. The Devils have $35 million in cap space. Now, let’s say the Devils sign most, if not all of their available restricted free agents for market value. Let’s give Will Butcher $3.5 million, Pavel Zacha $1.8 million on a prove-it deal, then filling out the roster with Stefan Noesen, Connor Carrick, and adding Ty Smith and Michael McLeod (can be replaced with Nathan Bastian, Joey Anderson, Brett Seney or Jesper Boqvist, it’s all a similar cap hit) to the team would give them a total of $25 million in cap space.