Avs Notebook: Here's How Avs Can Solve Cap Crunch If Landeskog Returns Before Playoffs

If Gabe Landeskog comes back, which is starting to look more and more likely, it would be most ideal to get him at least a couple of regular-season games to shake off some of the three years of cobwebs, right?

Right. But there’s a problem: the salary cap. The Avs currently have only $836,500 of cap space, per PuckPedia. For Landeskog to play at any time before the end of the regular season, the Avs would have to clear $6.16 million to fit Landeskog’s $7 million cap hit.