Salary Cap Report: Metropolitan Division

As the hockey world takes its collective breath before the World Cup, training camps, and the regular season begins, most teams have checked off their boxes and marked their ledgers. There are some teams not finished, as trades or financial meandering will be necessary due to cap crunches. Others have plenty of room.

We’ll look at the Metropolitan Division next.  Some interesting notes:

• The Hurricanes have the most cap space of any team in the NHL.
• The Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist has the highest cap hit of any goalie in the NHL. The second highest is Columbus’ Sergei Bobrovsky.
• Four of the NHL’s top ten cap hits are found in the division: (Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby, Henrik Lundqvist. Claude Giroux is 11th).

By the numbers:

• Carolina Hurricanes
  Cap Space Remaining: $16,736,667
  Greatest Cap Hit: Jordan Staal: $6MM
• Columbus Blue Jackets
  Cap Space Remaining:$3,817,857
  Greatest Cap Hit: Sergei Bobrovsky: $7.43MM
• New Jersey Devils
  Cap Space Remaining: $13,034,404
  Greatest Cap Hit: Taylor Hall/Cory Schneider: $6MM
• New York Islanders
  Cap Space Remaining: $3,658,524
  Greatest Cap Hit: Johnny Boychuk: $6MM
• New York Rangers
  Cap Space Remaining:$3,425,000
  Greatest Cap Hit: Henrik Lundqvist: $8.5MM
• Philadelphia Flyers
  Cap Space Remaining: $413,334
  Greatest Cap Hit: Claude Giroux: $8.275MM
• Pittsburgh Penguins
  Cap Space Remaining: -$2,757,499
  Greatest Cap Hit: Evgeni Malkin: $9.5MM
• Washington Capitals
  Cap Space Remaining: $3,454,871
  Greatest Cap Hit: Alex Ovechkin: $9.54MM