The best news entering the 2011-2012 season for the New Jersey Devils is that they will not have salary cap issues facing them like they did last year. Today the Devils officially bought out the contracts for defenseman Colin White and recently acquired forward Trent Hunter. Right now, the Devils have roughly a little under $5.9 million in cap space remaining.
Both players will have part of their salaries count against the Devils cap for the next two seasons, but its only a part. With White gone, the Devils now only have Patrik Elias and Martin Brodeur as the only two players remaining from their 2003 Stanley Cup Championship squad. Hunter was acquired last week from the Islanders in a trade for Brian Rolston.
It is not yet known whether Lou Lamoriello will make any further transactions to use up part of the space, but it might only be a small one. I doubt any further moves will be made, so here is their current projected line-up:
Ilya Kovalchuk || Travis Zajac || Nick Palmieri
Zach Parise || Patrik Elias || Dainius Zubrus
Adam Henrique || Jacob Josefson || Mattias Tedenby
Eric Boulton || David Steckel || David Clarkson
Extras: Vladimir Zharkov, Cam Janssen, Rod Pelley
Henrik Tallinder || Mark Fayne
Andy Greene || Anton Volchenkov
Bryce Salvador || Adam Larsson
Extras: Mark Fraser, Matthew Corrente, Alexander Urbom.
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