Kings roster and salary chart: 2015 offseason

As the NHL’s salary cap will become one of the most pressing stories for Los Angeles and other large market teams this off-season, I decided to bring back a Rich Hammond off-season staple that you’ll want to bookmark as the Kings use the next five months to construct their roster for the 2015-16 season.

Based partially on information that was available when CapGeek.com operated, in addition to consultations with Hockey Operations and additional financial information available over the Internet, the Kings have roughly $64.14 million allotted to 17 players for the 2015-16 season, a figure that includes Slava Voynov’s contract but not Jeff Schultz’s. I’m hoping to add cap hits for AHL-based players to this post, but at this point I’m confident in only 90% of the AHL financial information I have and will wait until I’m completely certain before I add additional numbers to this post.

Without Schultz, but with Voynov and Richards, the Kings have 10 forwards, six defensemen and one goaltender currently under contract for 2015-16. There is a chance that the 2015-16 salary cap may not rise from 2014-15’s $69-million.

NHL PLAYERS STILL UNDER CONTRACT
Dustin Brown – Signed through 2021-22, $5.875 million (UFA)
Jeff Carter – Signed through 2021-22, $5.273 million (UFA)
Kyle Clifford – Signed through 2019-20, $1.6 million (UFA)
Drew Doughty – Signed through 2018-19, $7.0 million (UFA)
Marian Gaborik – Signed through 2020-21, $4.875 million (UFA)
Matt Greene – Signed through 2017-18, $2.5 million (UFA)
Dwight King – Signed through 2016-17, $1.95 million (UFA)
Anze Kopitar – Signed through 2015-16, $6.8 million (UFA)
Trevor Lewis – Signed through 2015-16, $1.525 million (UFA)
Alec Martinez – Signed through 2020-21, $4.0 million (UFA)
Brayden McNabb – Signed through 2015-16, $675 thousand (RFA)
Jake Muzzin – Signed through 2019-20, $4.0 million (UFA)
Jordan Nolan – Signed through 2017-18, $950 thousand (UFA)
Jonathan Quick – Signed through 2022-23, $5.8 million (UFA)
Tanner Pearson – Signed through 2016-17, $1.4 million (RFA)
Mike Richards – Signed through 2019-20, $5.75 million (UFA)
Slava Voynov – Signed through 2018-19, $4.167 million (UFA)

AHL PLAYERS STILL UNDER CONTRACT (all RFAs after expiration, except for Schultz)
Justin Auger – Signed through 2016-17
Patrik Bartosak – Signed through 2015-16
J.F. Berube – Signed through 2015-16
Jonny Brodzinski – Signed through 2016-17
Nick Ebert – Signed through 2016-17
Derek Forbort – Signed through 2015-16
Adrian Kempe – Signed through 2017-18
Maxim Kitsyn – Signed through 2015-16
Zachary Leslie – Signed through 2016-17
Alex Lintuniemi – Signed through 2017-18
Kurtis MacDermid – Signed through 2016-17
Colin Miller – Signed through 2015-16
Michael Mersch – Signed through 2016-17
Brian O’Neill – Signed through 2015-16
Alex Roach – Signed through 2015-16
Scott Sabourin – Signed through 2015-16
Jeff Schultz – Signed through 2015-16, $850 thousand (UFA)
Valentin Zykov – Signed through 2016-17

RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS
Andy Andreoff
Andrew Crescenzi
Nic Dowd
Martin Jones
Vincent LoVerde
Nick Shore
Tyler Toffoli
Jordan Weal

UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS
Andrew Bodnarchuk
Jamie McBain
Robyn Regehr (likely to retire)
Andrej Sekera
Jarret Stoll
David Van der Gulik
Justin Williams

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