Penguins add C, keep D intact

Created by: jjb1012

Team: 2017-18 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 2, 2017

Published: Jul. 3, 2017

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 scenario assumes Cullen's retirement.

With Bonino and Cullen gone, Pittsburgh needs two centers who can soak up lots of defensive-zone faceoffs and play big PK minutes.

Haula and Fiddler fill those roles. It's a step up in minutes for Haula, but he's a 26-year-old on a reasonable contract and averaged over 1 minute per game on the PK for Minnesota. He's also a career 11% shooter. Both players have won more than 53% of faceoffs over the past two seasons. In 2016-17, Fiddler had a defensive-zone start percentage over 70 — he can do some of what Cullen did for the Penguins.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Archibald, Josh	2	$750,000
Dea, Jean-Sébastien	3	$725,000
Pouliot, Derrick	2	$750,000
Dumoulin, Brian	4	$4,150,000
Sheary, Conor	3	$2,833,333

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Fiddler, Vernon	1	$1,000,000
Korpikoski, Lauri	1	$1,000,000
Polák, Roman	1	$1,250,000

Trades

PIT

Haula, Erik

VGK

DiPauli, Thomas
Hagelin, Carl
2019 5th round pick (PIT)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
25	$75,000,000	$72,928,225	$50,000	$182,500	$2,071,775

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Sheary, Conor $2,833,333$2,833,333 LW, RW UFA - 3	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 8	Guentzel, Jake $734,167$734,167 ($182,500$182K) LW, RW UFA - 2
Wilson, Scott $625,000$625,000 LW UFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 5	Kessel, Phil $6,800,000$6,800,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5
Rust, Bryan $640,000$640,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Haula, Erik $2,750,000$2,750,000 C, LW UFA - 3	Hörnqvist, Patric $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
	Fiddler, Vernon $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW UFA	Reaves, Ryan $1,125,000$1,125,000 RW UFA - 1
Archibald, Josh $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Rowney, Carter $612,500$612,500 C, RW UFA - 1	Kühnhackl, Tom $625,000$625,000 RW UFA - 1
Korpikoski, Lauri $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Määttä, Olli $3,333,225$3,333,225 LD UFA - 5	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5	Murray, Matt $3,750,000$3,750,000 G UFA - 3
Dumoulin, Brian $4,150,000$4,150,000 LD UFA - 6	Schultz, Justin $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD UFA - 3	Niemi, Antti $700,000$700,000 G UFA - 1
Cole, Ian $2,100,000$2,100,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Hunwick, Matt $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD UFA - 3
Ruhwedel, Chad $650,000$650,000 RD UFA - 2	Polák, Roman $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Kessel, P.		Crosby, S.		Hörnqvist, P.
	Malkin, E.		Letang, K.

Power Play 2
Sheary, C.		Haula, E.		Guentzel, J.
	Määttä, O.		Schultz, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Fiddler, V.	Wilson, S.
	Cole, I.	Letang, K.

Penalty Kill 2
	Haula, E.	Rowney, C.
	Dumoulin, B.	Hunwick, M.

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