Fixing bottom 6

Created by: pensfan21

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 19, 2023

Published: Oct. 19, 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

Do not like the idea of trading Rakell. At all. But I feel like we will have to trade a major player if we want to shake up the bottom 6. I don't know how else we'd get the cap space. Kane makes sense as an easy replacement for him in the top 6 for less cap. Allows us to fix bottom 6 and 3rd D pair too.

Free Agent Signings

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kane, Patrick		1	$2,500,000

Trades

PIT

2024 2nd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Rakell, Rickard

PIT

Vrána, Jakub ($1,305,000 retained)

STL

2024 2nd round pick (PIT)
2024 4th round pick (PIT)

PIT

Sturm, Nico

SJS

PIT

Lyubushkin, Ilya ($1,250,000 retained)

ANA

O'Connor, Drew
2025 4th round pick (PIT)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)

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
22	$83,500,000	$79,425,175	$0	$0	$4,074,825

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	Kane, Patrick $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW UFA - 1
Vrána, Jakub $1,320,000$1,320,000 LW UFA - 1	Sturm, Nico $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2
Zohorna, Radim $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Poulin, Samuel $863,333$863,333 C, LW RFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
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	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 2	Lyubushkin, Ilya -$562,500-$562,500 RD UFA - 1