Pittsburgh blows it up - Crosby wants out

Created by: Lochness1202

Team: 2022-23 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 20, 2022

Published: Jun. 20, 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

First this assumes that Malkin and Letang both walk. Also assumes that Crosby doesn’t want to be part of a rebuild (that’s the part I find hard to assume as I think Crosby would be very loyal to Pittsburgh up until maybe his last 1-2 years in the league)

So Pittsburgh wants a change and young picks and prospects to start the rebuild.

Colorado wants to build a dynasty and the obvious connection of Crosby to Mackinnon is there. Cap space is obviously an issue so I think it’s actually more likely this happens next offseason when cap gives teams an extra 2-3M. But here is the skeleton of a trade

$$$ need to adjusted slightly but this is just the skeleton of a trade

Trades

COL

Crosby, Sidney

Additional Details:

2M retained

PIT

Byram, Bowen
2023 1st round pick (COL)
2024 1st round pick (COL)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
14	$82,500,000	$64,620,833	$25,000	$850,000	$17,879,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 7	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C UFA - 3
Sedlak, Lukas $800,000$800,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Newhook, Alex $908,333$908,333 ($850,000$850K) C, LW RFA - 1	O'Connor, Logan $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
		Compher, J.T. $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, RW UFA - 1
	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Makar, Cale $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD UFA - 5	Francouz, Pavel $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 2
Toews, Devon $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD UFA - 2	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
MacDermid, Kurtis $987,500$987,500 LD/RD, LW UFA - 2