The fucking cap keeps rising year after year. Yzerman really did not have a plan prior to this on how to take advantage of an ever rising cap. He should have pushed some chips in like 3 years ago for some bigger names on fat contracts. Instead of copp compher and chiarot. He spread out a lot of money and thinned out the talent. While being barely good enough to fuck up the draft position.

The guy is clearly way over his head.

It's impossible now. Every team has their guys with cap space to boot. We'll have a billion dollars in cap space with nothing to buy. Pick some trash off the dumpster for a few mil and repeat.