Money Decisions 2

Created by: GM_MZ_WSH

Team: 2021-22 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 21, 2021

Published: Mar. 21, 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

This could be a more realistic way the Capitals look for next season. I'd like for the right wing position to be stronger, and I would like to bring Siegenthaler back. Maybe Siegenthaler is re-signed and someone else on the left side is shipped out, but it's lacking veteran presence. Hagelin is also very expendable, but for argument's sake let's assume he stays for the PK. Ho-Sang is a very low risk decision, and that has seemed to work well for the Capitals in recent history (DSP, Sheary, Sprong). If he or any of the defensemen start playing poorly, Capitals would have nearly $3mil in cap space to work with to pursue other signings or trades for upgrades. Also taking into account the widely held belief Oshie could be the one exposed in the expansion draft to get rid of his contract.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Samsonov, Ilya		2	$1,500,000
Vrána, Jakub		4	$5,125,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Ovechkin, Alex	4	$11,000,000
Ho-Sang, Joshua	1	$800,000
Sheary, Conor	3	$1,125,000

Trades

WSH

ANA

Oshie, T.J.

Additional Details:

Taken by Seattle in Expansion Draft

WSH

2021 5th round pick (BUF)

NJD

Pánik, Richard

WSH

2022 6th round pick (OTT)

OTT

Kempný, Michal

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$70,289,594	$472,927	$132,500	$11,210,406

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $11,000,000$11,000,000 LW UFA - 5	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Vrána, Jakub $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW UFA - 3	Kuznetsov, Evgeny $3,900,000$3,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 4	Sprong, Daniel $725,000$725,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Hagelin, Carl $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW UFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,415,000$2,415,000 C UFA - 2	Sheary, Conor $1,125,000$1,125,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Hathaway, Garnet $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Dowd, Nic $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Ho-Sang, Joshua $800,000$800,000 RW, C UFA
	McMichael, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dillon, Brenden $3,900,000$3,900,000 LD UFA - 3	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 5	Vanecek, Vitek $716,667$716,667 G UFA - 1
Orlov, Dmitry $1,275,000$1,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2
Fehérváry, Martin $791,667$791,667 ($132,500$132K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Schultz, Justin $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Samsonov, Ilya $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Alexeyev, Alexander $863,333$863,333 LD/RD RFA - 2	Jensen, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 2
	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Mar. 21, 2021 at 8:42 p.m.

Riley816

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Why wouldn't Seattle take Vanecek???

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Mar. 21, 2021 at 8:59 p.m.

Devil

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Devils are sellers, not buyers. And Seattle takes Vanacek

Mar. 21, 2021 at 9:00 p.m.

TCMonkey

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Not sure Ottawa does it. Kempny will be 31 and coming back from a devastating Achilles injury and missing a full season. And, with the cap frozen for next season and possibly beyond, Ottawa could probably put that $2.5M towards a more intriguing UFA.

Mar. 21, 2021 at 10:51 p.m.

GM_MZ_WSH

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Quoting: TCMonkey

Yeah I realized they had a lot of cap space so a trade there worked with that and they wouldn't have to give up much in return. I envision him more as a depth pickup and not a big move which Ottawa can still make with cap space for that bigger UFA you were talking about.

Mar. 21, 2021 at 11:04 p.m.

GM_MZ_WSH

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Quoting: Devil1122

Devils are sellers, not buyers. And Seattle takes Vanacek

Sellers at the deadline. But in the offseason, they'd probably need to pick up guys (especially if you part ways with guys like Zajac and Palmieri). That being said, they have money to spend so they can absolutely get bigger fish in the UFA market. But it's a low risk, decent reward trade.

And for Vanecek, I think that's a solid no. Goalies exposed in the draft will be guys like Holtby exposed instead of Demko, Georgiev exposed instead of Shesterkin, Varlamov instead of Sorokin, Fleury instead of Lehner, Bishop instead of Khudobin. Lots of goalie talent to choose from over Vanecek.

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