On the Forecheck, a Nashville Predators community

With the final pieces of the Nashville Predators 2010-11 roster secured with the recent signings of Patric Hornqvist and Cody Franson to new contracts, it's a good time to look at the current total salary of the team, and what that means for the upcoming campaign.

Ilya Kovalchuk will keep firing pucks for the New Jersey Devils, but his contract is just another sham designed to circumvent the NHL's salary cap system.