Taking advantage of cap crunches

Created by: brgh4life

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: May 6, 2023

Published: May 6, 2023

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

I've already seen a ton of people talk about Boston trading Ullmark and he'd be a great fit for the Pens. Not sure if Vancouver would like to deal Garland still, but I really like his 5v5 play. Could slide Rakell back to the LW to take the spot vacated by Zucker.
Puustinen is a gifted playmaker who should be a full time NHL'er next season.
Sundqvist and Erod bring some versatility to the third line.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
O'Connor, Drew	1	$800,000
Poehling, Ryan	1	$800,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	1	$850,000
Smith, Ty	1	$950,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Raanta, Antti	2	$1,750,000
Rodrigues, Evan	2	$3,000,000
Sundqvist, Oskar	2	$3,000,000
Graves, Ryan	5	$5,000,000

Trades

PIT

Ullmark, Linus

BOS

2024 2nd round pick (PIT)

PIT

Garland, Conor

VAN

DeSmith, Casey
2024 3rd round pick (VGK)
2024 4th round pick (PIT)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667
Mikael Granlund: $833,333

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$78,018,925	$0	$0	$5,481,075

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Garland, Conor $4,950,000$4,950,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Puustinen, Valtteri $850,000$850,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Rodrigues, Evan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, C UFA - 4
O'Connor, Drew $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 2	Poehling, Ryan $800,000$800,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 6	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Petry, Jeff $2,343,750$2,343,750 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Raanta, Antti $1,750,000$1,750,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Rutta, Jan $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1
Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1
Smith, Ty $950,000$950,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

May 6, 2023 at 5:58 p.m.

Gofnut999

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 19,832

Likes: 8,854

No thanks. Even if Pitts is not on his NTC or he waives, that won’t cut it.

Not_Isles5513 liked this.

May 6, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.

Julius_Freezer

Joined: Jul. 2022

Posts: 1,383

Likes: 348

VAN says no, we already have 4 goalies under contract next season

May 6, 2023 at 6:13 p.m.

brgh4life

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 2,705

Likes: 994

Quoting: TheRevanchist17

VAN says no, we already have 4 goalies under contract next season

I figured since Martin was pretty unspectacular they might bring in someone Allvin was familar with for a season. What about Garland though? Is there still talk of moving him since you all have a ton of wingers signed?

May 6, 2023 at 6:15 p.m.

brgh4life

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 2,705

Likes: 994

Quoting: Gofnut999

No thanks. Even if Pitts is not on his NTC or he waives, that won’t cut it.

It's not like Boston is really in the drivers seat right now. Unless someone does them a big favor the return for some of the contracts they need to move are going to be disappointing.

May 6, 2023 at 6:22 p.m.

Gofnut999

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 19,832

Likes: 8,854

Quoting: brgh4life

It's not like Boston is really in the drivers seat right now. Unless someone does them a big favor the return for some of the contracts they need to move are going to be disappointing.

They buyout Reilly, trade Forbort for late pick they have all the space they need. They could use more of course, but they don’t NEED it to fill the roster.

So unless they are planning another move they won’t be backed into a poor trade.

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