Realistic EK65 trade cap dump with Chicago

Created by: devonwerthner

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 5, 2023

Published: Jul. 5, 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

Carter + Petry are strictly for cap purposes, value wise they don't add much. But SJ can flip them into other assets. SJ has no leverage with EK requesting a trade, Pens give up plenty to keep the very small cup window open and Dubas makes a Rutherford size splash.

Granlund's and DeSmith's services are no longer needed or wanted. Chicago takes them on to slowly improve for Bedard while not committing to long term cap. Pens get back a very serviceable 3rd liner who can play top 6 time if needed in Johnson. Debated putting Rust in a trade as he isn't an every day top 6 forward nor should we keep that contract much longer.

But let's all be real with these "rumors", and I think this is as close to real as it'll get. Pens will have to pay to get rid of the bad contracts and the retained money.

Trades

PIT

Karlsson, Erik ($4,500,000 retained)
Sturm, Nico

SJS

Carter, Jeff
Petry, Jeff
2024 1st round pick (PIT)
2025 2nd round pick (PIT)
2026 2nd round pick (PIT)

PIT

Johnson, Tyler ($2,500,000 retained)

CHI

DeSmith, Casey
Granlund, Mikael
2025 3rd round pick (PIT)
2026 5th round pick (PIT)

PIT

SJS

Poulin, Samuel

Additional Details:

Not sure why it didn't in the first trade but he'd need to be added as well

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$78,891,842	$0	$0	$4,608,158

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
Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Sturm, Nico $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2	Johnson, Tyler $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Zohorna, Radim $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 6	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Karlsson, Erik $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 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)
Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1
Butcher, Will $775,000$775,000 LD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 5, 2023 at 7:56 p.m.

matthias893

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 362

Likes: 141

EK65 didn't really request a trade in that way, nor is he forcing the Sharks to trade him. Grier isn't in a rush and is only going to trade him if its the right trade. The Sharks don't lack leverage because they don't actually need to trade him, it just makes sense to.

Jul. 5, 2023 at 7:57 p.m.

SlickWilly

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 3,284

Likes: 2,247

Hawks pass on that. If we're retaining on Johnson and taking on Granlund as a cap dump, you're going to need to pay significantly more than that

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Jul. 5, 2023 at 7:58 p.m.

glarson17

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 8,564

Likes: 3,876

Sharks aren’t adding a bargain center to the deal. $4.5 mil retention a year is rather steep, especially taking back Petry and Carter

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Jul. 5, 2023 at 7:59 p.m.

Justafan79

Joined: May 2023

Posts: 1,366

Likes: 621

Carter most likely isn't waiving he specifically said he didn't want to move his Family as the reason for the NMC.

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Jul. 5, 2023 at 8:03 p.m.

pens1991

Joined: Jul. 2022

Posts: 3,003

Likes: 1,105

Quoting: Justafan79

Carter most likely isn't waiving he specifically said he didn't want to move his Family as the reason for the NMC.

Literally don't understand how people keep trying to trade him lol

Justafan79 liked this.

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