Ownership tells Burke and Hextall to go all in for one year

Created by: Chigurrhh

Team: 2020-21 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 16, 2021

Published: Feb. 16, 2021

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

Basically, screw it and go for it this year and deal with the consequences later.

Buffalo gets a LD that they can give hard minutes to to free up Riso and Dahlin+pick. That's the basic idea. Maybe throw in one of the goalie prospects or Legare too.

Montreal is clearly a playoff team but Danault likely isn't in their future plan (and his role is diminishing which lowers his value). This trade replaces him with a young LW who projects to be ready next year to play in a middle six role.

Trades

PIT

Hall, Taylor ($4,000,000 retained)

BUF

Dumoulin, Brian
2021 2nd round pick (PIT)

Retained Salary Transactions

Nick Bjugstad: $2,050,000 (50%)

Buried

Colton Sceviour: $125,000 ($1,200,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$75,303,508	$0	$1,062,500	$6,196,492

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 5	Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Hall, Taylor $0$0 LW NMC UFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Zucker, Jason $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3
	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 1	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 2
McCann, Jared $2,940,000$2,940,000 C, LW UFA - 2		Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 5
Aston-Reese, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Blueger, Teddy $750,000$750,000 C, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $863,333$863,333 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 2	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Jarry, Tristan $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 3
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD UFA - 5	Marino, John $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 1	DeSmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000 G UFA - 2
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD UFA - 6	Ceci, Cody $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Riikola, Juuso $1,150,000$1,150,000 LD UFA - 2
Ruhwedel, Chad $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Lafferty, Sam $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW, C, LW UFA - 2
Rodrigues, Evan $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, C UFA - 1
Weber, Yannick $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1
Jankowski, Mark $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, LW UFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($850,000$850K) LW UFA - 2
D'Orio, Alex $733,333$733,333 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 2
Lagacé, Maxime $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1
Angello, Anthony $725,000$725,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, RW UFA - 2
Czuczman, Kevin $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 1
Gaudreau, Frédérick $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, LW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Feb. 16, 2021 at 3:48 a.m.

GMs

Joined: Jul. 2019

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So MTL gets worse before entering the playoffs ?
Make senses ...

Feb. 16, 2021 at 3:52 a.m.

Jdfitz77

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Teams will offer a 1st + for Hall
This won’t get it done imo

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Feb. 16, 2021 at 3:56 a.m.

Chigurrhh

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Quoting: Jdfitz77

Teams will offer a 1st + for Hall
This won’t get it done imo

Depends on how much Buffalo wants to win soon. Dumoulin has been an effective top pairing guy for most of his career, including as the best defenseman on a cup team (2017) and is signed for another two seasons.

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Feb. 16, 2021 at 3:58 a.m.

Chigurrhh

Chiggy

Joined: May 2017

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Quoting: GMs

So MTL gets worse before entering the playoffs ?
Make senses ...

He's been in trade rumors for a several months now and has a significantly diminished role this year with two young Cs on the team. Would be far from the first time a team does something like this. The Blues have done it a few times. Traded Shattenkirk at the deadline when they were a playoff team, for example.

Feb. 16, 2021 at 4:02 a.m.

GMs

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Quoting: Chigurrhh

We are in MTL and Danault never been in trades rumors what r u saying

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