Staying competitive

Created by: staytru20

Team: 2022-23 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 18, 2022

Published: Apr. 18, 2022

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

Capitals add Quick as a veteran presence in net in tandem with Vanecek to stabilize the back-end. Caps replace Schultz on defense with either Alexeyev or Johansen, which ever one is more NHL ready. Forward core is largely the same, but the Caps choose to offload Eller's contract to save some cap space. Caps can't go into 2022-23 with both Vanecek and Samsonov, and choose to trade Samsonov because he has a 1st round draft pedigree.

Caps bank cap space to sign pending UFAs Orlov, Jensen, and Hathaway.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Vanecek, Vitek	1	$2,000,000
Johansen, Lucas	1	$750,000
Leason, Brett	1	$750,000
Geisser, Tobias	1	$800,000
Malenstyn, Beck	1	$750,000

Trades

WSH

2023 3rd round pick (WSH)

ARI

Eller, Lars
2023 4th round pick (WSH)

WSH

2023 2nd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Samsonov, Ilya [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Samsonov will need a fresh start and Edmonton needs an NHL ready goaltender that's on the younger side to grow into the role.

WSH

Quick, Jonathan

LAK

2023 2nd round pick (WSH)

Additional Details:

Conditional 2023 2nd - if Quick plays in 41 games in 2022-23, the better of the Oilers and Capitals 2023 2nd will be sent to LA

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$66,710,000	$100,000	$0	$15,790,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4	Kuznetsov, Evgeny $3,900,000$3,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Snively, Joe $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 2	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Mantha, Anthony $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Sheary, Conor $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	McMichael, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 2	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Hagelin, Carl $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW UFA - 1	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 3	Hathaway, Garnet $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $791,667$791,667 LD/RD RFA - 1	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 1
Orlov, Dmitry $1,275,000$1,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Jensen, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Vanecek, Vitek $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 3
Alexeyev, Alexander $863,333$863,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Johansen, Lucas $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2
Malenstyn, Beck $750,000$750,000 C, LW RFA - 2
Jonsson-Fjällby, Axel $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 18, 2022 at 2:49 p.m.

tkecanuck341

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 14,583

Likes: 6,156

Kings aren't going to trade Quick. He was the better of the Kings' two goaltenders this season and is still considered the starting goaltender for LA. If the Kings make the playoffs, expect to see him between the pipes in the postseason.

Apr. 18, 2022 at 2:55 p.m.

staytru20

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 1,671

Likes: 875

Quoting: tkecanuck341

I don't disagree, Quick just best fit the "veteran goalie who could possibly be traded" mold that the Caps will go after in the off-season. Could be re-signing Holtby too.

Apr. 21, 2022 at 1:57 p.m.

All_Knowing

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 1,685

Likes: 1,055

Quoting: staytru20

I don't disagree, Quick just best fit the "veteran goalie who could possibly be traded" mold that the Caps will go after in the off-season. Could be re-signing Holtby too.

Please no Holtby. People forget, he was incredible in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2018. But other than that, he was quite inconsistent... and he is older now...

Apr. 21, 2022 at 4:08 p.m.

staytru20

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 1,671

Likes: 875

Quoting: All_Knowing

Please no Holtby. People forget, he was incredible in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2018. But other than that, he was quite inconsistent... and he is older now...

I don't disagree about Holtby being inconsistent and on the back half of his career. I do think he would provide a bit more stability on the back-end than what's there now.

For reference:

Holtby: .913 sv%, 3.8 GSAA, .875 5v5 sc sv%, .853 5v5 hd sv%
Samsonov: .897 sv%, -11.5 GSAA, .858 5v5 sc sv%, .795 5v5 hd sv%
Vanecek: .909 sv%, 1.4 GSAA, .879 5v5 sc sv%, .809 5v5 hd sv%

Seems to me, you bank on VV for the future, and then use Holtby as a veteran 1A/1B in that kind of scenario. Doesn't even need to be Holtby, but the Caps need someone to help them win now, and VV and Sammy together aren't carrying the weight.

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