How Much Money Is Out of the Florida Panthers Lineup? It’s a Boatload

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The Florida Panthers play Toronto Saturday in their final road game of the season and will play the Maple Leafs without a grand majority of the lineup they hoped to finish with. The Panthers and Leafs played in the second round of the playoffs last year but, Saturday’s game will be without some big names on both ends of the ice. For Florida, the salary off the ice swamps what it will put on it for what Hockey Night in Canada figured would be must-see-TV when the season began.

The Panthers are currently missing five of the six defensemen who played on Opening Night — a number which includes Jeff Petry who was traded at the deadline to Minnesota. Counting Petry, the Panthers are still down five of seven when Uvis Balinskis , a healthy scratch for Game 1, is factored in. The Panthers came into the year up against the NHL’s $95.

5 million salary cap yet that is not a problem they have to navigate around any more. With the likes of Sasha Barkov, Seth Jones, Sam Reinhart, Aaron Ekblad , and Brad Marchand out for the season, the Panthers are no where near the salary cap ceiling these days. But how much salary is on the shelf ?

The 11 players who are out — all, with three games left — for the rest of the season account for $50. 275 million. When you add in Matthew Tkachuk , who is out on paternity leave, that number rises to $59.