DETROIT - Losing Tomas Nosek to the Vegas Golden Knights in Wednesday's expansion draft did little to free up salary-cap space for the Detroit Red Wings, in addition to costing them one of their better prospects.
The Red Wings' current cap figure stands at $67.7 million. But that will change over the course of the summer.
They must sign restricted free agents Tomas Tatar (likely in the $5 million per year range), Andreas Athanasiou and Xavier Ouellet. That would push them close to over slight above the $75 million cap for the 2017-18 season.
But they will get relief from the injured Johan Franzen's contract (close to $3.