I was looking at cap room for this upcoming season. Initially I thought the CBJ would have a ton compared to most teams. But there is a LOT of cap room out there for a LOT of teams. Link to see here.
CBJ has 40M (2nd most). But get this, there are 18 teams, over half the league that have 20+ million in cap space and 6 teams with 30+ million. Yes, some have to use the money to resign their own players as they dont have 23 guys under contract. But the amount available to spend is quite a bit.
I am not sure Waddell is going to be able to wheel and deal like I thought he may have been able to with other teams also having cap room.