Pitter Patter

Created by: jimmmyg

Team: 2019-20 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: May 27, 2019

Published: May 31, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Trying to trade within Kessel's assumed preferred list, a bit tricky since TBL is also cap crunched but figured they could use a change of scenery in their players.

Traded Rust & Maatta which sucks but also need cap space and they carry value. Rust can be a good add for any team looking to gain speed/playoff experience. Maatta is good (contrary to popular belief) and can help a team bolster their defense.

Signed PEB because I love him and think the team can benefit from a player like him. Not sure how much he will go for on the market, but for fun let's assume he is interested in playing with Sid.

Signed the roster RFA dudes. Pettersson deserves atleast $2m AAV and not sure what ZAR gets, but he contributes so I gave him a raise.

I don't love this defense, but there will be just under $3mil in cap space available and can also look to make other trades. Penguins still have their 1st rounder after all of this which I think they should trade, but just taking a stab and different approach from what I have been seeing.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Aston-Reese, Zach	3	$1,000,000
Blueger, Teddy	2	$850,000
Riikola, Juuso	1	$850,000
Pettersson, Marcus	3	$2,100,000
Blandisi, Joseph	1	$700,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Bellemare, Pierre-Édouard		2	$1,500,000

Trades

PIT

2019 2nd round pick (TBL)

NYR

Rust, Bryan

PIT

2019 2nd round pick (BOS)

NJD

Määttä, Olli

PIT

Additional Details:

TBL gains about $1mil in cap space this year and gets Callahan off the books to pay Point. Kessel/Kucherov best RW duo and he will either have Stamkos or Point passing him the puck.

TBL

Additional Details:

Penguins get JJ off books and gets a good player back with term for Kessel. Callahan has a high cap hit but is UFA after 19-20 season. Also has the "will to win" mentality GMJR is looking for. IDK..

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,000,000	$76,699,166	$132,500	$0	$6,300,834

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Gourde, Yanni $5,166,666$5,166,666 C, LW, RW NTC UFA - 6
McCann, Jared $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Hörnqvist, Patric $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW NTC UFA - 4
Simon, Dominik $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Bjugstad, Nick $2,050,000$2,050,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Callahan, Ryan $5,800,000$5,800,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
		Aston-Reese, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Bellemare, Pierre-Édouard $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Blueger, Teddy $850,000$850,000 C, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dumoulin, Brian $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Murray, Matt $3,750,000$3,750,000 G UFA - 1
Pettersson, Marcus $2,100,000$2,100,000 LD UFA - 1	Schultz, Justin $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1	DeSmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000 G UFA - 3
Riikola, Juuso $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Ruhwedel, Chad $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 2
DiPauli, Thomas $700,000$700,000 C, LW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Guentzel, J.		Crosby, S.		Hörnqvist, P.
	Letang, K.		Malkin, E.

Power Play 2
McCann, J.		Bjugstad, N.
	Pettersson, M.		Schultz, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Bjugstad, N.	Aston-Reese, Z.
	Pettersson, M.	Letang, K.

Penalty Kill 2
	Crosby, S.	Callahan, R.
	Dumoulin, B.	Gudbranson, E.

Top Comments

May 31, 2019 at 2:48 p.m.

Yojimbo

Joined: Apr. 2018

Posts: 5,351

Likes: 1,535

Gourde is not good enough to justify taking on Callahan. Kessel >>> Gourde. Kessel+Johnson is still >> Gourde. You also then get to keep Rust.

May 31, 2019 at 2:52 p.m.

jimmmyg

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 737

Likes: 191

Quoting: biglite351

Gourde is not good enough to justify taking on Callahan. Kessel >>> Gourde. Kessel+Johnson is still >> Gourde. You also then get to keep Rust.

I felt like I was going backwards when I first wrote it out, but it would only be for 1 year and he isn't completely useless. I prefer to keep Kessel in all honesty but I just don't see it happening now that the dirty laundry has aired out. I honestly don't know what to expect from GMJR this summer, and it scares me. I actually was in favor of Zucker/Rask for Kessel/Johnson but that won't happen now. Idk!! You think JT Miller would be a better return?

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