Opening Day Lines

Created by: NoVaSpartan

Team: 2023-24 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 28, 2023

Published: Aug. 28, 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

Couple notes:
Mantha on line two, Carbery uses him properly and he can make up for some of Kuznetsov's defensive inadequacies. Same goes for McMichael in terms of use.
Milano is the perfect fit for Backstrom and Oshie until one of them is inevitably injured.
When Pacioretty returns, I can see Aube-Kubel waived, Malenstyn/Frank sent down, McMichael moves to the bench and Patches moves to line 2. Could also put Milano on line 4, and putting either Patches or McMichael on line 3.
Mantha and McMichael timeshare on PP2 until one of them becomes clearly better than the other.

My one hot take (though I don't have it here): Alexeyev excels and beat out Edmundson for the 3LD spot, and Carbery trusts him due to familiarity between the two from Hershey.

Trades

WSH

CHI

Lindgren, Charlie

Additional Details:

Waiver claim, whoever needs a goalie

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$75,851,667	$20,000	$82,500	$7,648,333

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 5	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
McMichael, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 1	Kuznetsov, Evgeny $3,900,000$3,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Mantha, Anthony $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Milano, Sonny $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Protas, Aliaksei $789,167$789,167 ($82,500$82K) RW, LW, C UFA - 1	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 2	Aubé-Kubel, Nicolas $1,225,000$1,225,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 3	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Kuemper, Darcy $5,250,000$5,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Sandin, Rasmus $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD UFA - 1	Jensen, Nick $4,050,000$4,050,000 RD UFA - 3	Shepard, Hunter $775,000$775,000 G UFA - 2
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 2		Pacioretty, Max $2,000,000$2,000,000 ($2,000,000$2M) LW NMC UFA - 1
Frank, Ethen $775,000$775,000 C RFA - 1
Malenstyn, Beck $762,500$762,500 C, LW RFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Kuznetsov, E.		Bäckström, N.		Oshie, T.
	Ovechkin, A.		Carlson, J.

Power Play 2
Mantha, A.		Strome, D.		Wilson, T.
	Ovechkin, A.		Sandin, R.

Penalty Kill 1
	Dowd, N.	Wilson, T.
	van Riemsdyk, T.	Jensen, N.

Penalty Kill 2
	Bäckström, N.	Protas, A.
	Fehérváry, M.	Carlson, J.

Top Comments

Aug. 28, 2023 at 2:37 p.m.

BoringBrianMacLellan

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Shepard should be the first call up, but I highly doubt he beats out Lindgren in camp.

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Aug. 28, 2023 at 2:38 p.m.

NoVaSpartan

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Joined: Nov. 2019

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Quoting: BoringBrianMacLellan

Shepard should be the first call up, but I highly doubt he beats out Lindgren in camp.

I don't think he will either, but the cap positives brought by waiving him make me at least consider the possibility of Shepard staying up. I'm not as high on him as most are but the 400k difference in salary could be extremely valuable.

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Aug. 28, 2023 at 3:28 p.m.

Snowhawk18

Snowhawk

Joined: Jul. 2022

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Likes: 3,376

I don’t think there is a roll in Chicago for Lindgren now but he is actually someone I thought they should be interested in before last season, I think he is a good depth goalie for some team.

Aug. 28, 2023 at 3:57 p.m.

jazzykiwi

Joined: May 2022

Posts: 679

Likes: 235

I thought the caps couldnt put Pax on LTIR to start the season since he was signed when injured. Idk maybe I'm wrong

Aug. 28, 2023 at 4:18 p.m.

brady_t12

Fantasy Hockey Pro

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 5,120

Likes: 2,270

Quoting: jazzykiwi

I thought the caps couldnt put Pax on LTIR to start the season since he was signed when injured. Idk maybe I'm wrong

I don’t think there’s any rule about that but I don’t know that they’ll do it because Pacioretty might be ready to play before he misses the 10 games / 24 days you need to miss to qualify for LTIR.

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