Healthier team

Created by: Rurik766

Team: 2019-20 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 18, 2019

Published: Oct. 18, 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

The Canes could use a top 9 forward, and the Pens could use the space for some of their younger players. So when he is healthy, I suggest moving Bjugstad and maybe getting TVR back. It might not be ideal, but the Canes would likely have to send some money back.

Trades

PIT

van Riemsdyk, Trevor
2020 3rd round pick (CAR)

CAR

Bjugstad, Nick

Buried

Casey DeSmith: $175,000 ($1,250,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
26	$81,500,000	$77,724,125	$132,500	$3,832,500	$3,775,875

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	Simon, Dominik $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Kahun, Dominik $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Lafferty, Sam $767,500$767,500 ($132,500$132K) RW, C, LW UFA - 1	Hörnqvist, Patric $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW NTC UFA - 4
Aston-Reese, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Blueger, Teddy $750,000$750,000 C, LW UFA - 2
Johnson, Adam $700,000$700,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Blandisi, Joseph $700,000$700,000 C UFA - 1	Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 6
		Riikola, Juuso $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1

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 $874,125$874,125 LD UFA - 1	Schultz, Justin $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Jarry, Tristan $675,000$675,000 G UFA - 1
Johnson, Jack $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD UFA - 4	Marino, John $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 2
van Riemsdyk, Trevor $2,300,000$2,300,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
McCann, Jared $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW UFA - 1		Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD UFA - 2		Trotman, Zach $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 2
Ruhwedel, Chad $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 2
Galchenyuk, Alex $4,900,000$4,900,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1
Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 3

Special Teams

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

Power Play 2
Kahun, D.		Blueger, T.		Tanev, B.
	Pettersson, M.		Marino, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Blueger, T.	Tanev, B.
	Dumoulin, B.	Letang, K.

Penalty Kill 2
	Lafferty, S.	Aston-Reese, Z.
	Johnson, J.	Pettersson, M.

Top Comments

Oct. 18, 2019 at 12:28 p.m.

Yojimbo

Joined: Apr. 2018

Posts: 5,351

Likes: 1,535

Exactly what the Pens need to do... move a F for a D.

The Pens already have at least 2 too many D. They have Riikola playing wing.

Oct. 18, 2019 at 12:44 p.m.

Rurik766

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 263

Likes: 44

Quoting: Yojimbo

Exactly what the Pens need to do... move a F for a D.

The Pens already have at least 2 too many D. They have Riikola playing wing.

I understand that, but they are paying Bjugstad $4M and when the team is healthy there are younger, cheaper options that have played better for the Pens than Bjugstad. Eventually JR will have to do something about the D and I would rather have a "D" making $2.3M than have JJ ($3.25M) and EG ($4M). Not to mention that if the Canes are making a trade to help their team, they are going to be looking for a forward and would be moving a "D". This way the Pens save some money and they can still waive Ruh, JJ, EG or Riikola and not likely lose any of them.

Oct. 18, 2019 at 6:56 p.m.

pharrow

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Joined: Jun. 2018

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Quoting: Rurik766

its only a cheaper option when the canes aren't sending money back.
This could work for the penguins, but only if they can move defense and not take money back.
Especially since that's an expiring contract and if they resign him, it costs them cap.

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