With Artemi Panarin now in the books, the Rangers have an interesting situation on their hands, with just $8 million in cap space for four key RFAs. Using Evolving Wild’s free agent estimator, we can expect the RFAs to come to about $14.7 million in cap hits:
- Jacob Trouba – $7.5 million
- Pavel Buchnevich – $3.25 million
- Tony DeAngelo – $2.75 million
- Brendan Lemieux – $1.2 million
That’s a difference of about $7 million in cap space needed. There are some low hanging fruit here, since the estimates currently include Matt Beleskey and Brendan Smith.