Pageau to the desert

Created by: joshelkin

Team: 2023-24 New York Islanders

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 8, 2023

Published: Dec. 8, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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 don’t see JGP as a cap dump. He is a very capable 3C who can PP/PK and play a 200ft game and win key faceoffs. The Islanders have some of the best center depth in the league, which could make Pageau expendable if the right moves line up.

IMO the most likely thing the Islanders try is a “DeBrincat” like package (JGP+Wahlstrom+1st) for a player who would be a bigger upgrade. However, I do think you can try to get creative with Pageau get 2 ‘lesser’ but still impactful guys for the cap space he takes up

I tested this trade in the trade machine and it was approved. Isles have the space to make it work

Trades

NYI

Schmaltz, Nick

Additional Details:

Schmaltz is owed $7.5m in real dollars this year, then $8.45m in 24-25 and $8.5m in 25-26.

Isles get someone to play top line with Horvat and Barzal

ARI

Pageau, Jean-Gabriel
Wahlstrom, Oliver
2024 1st round pick (NYI)

Additional Details:

Pageau is owed $4.5m in real dollars this year, then $4m in 24-25 and $3.5m in 25-26.

Schmaltz can play C but he’s predominantly a W. Yotes have one of the weaker C core’s in the league. Guenther isn’t that far away from the NHL and he could replace Schmaltz in time. Wahlstrom could use a new start somewhere with more playing time as well. Plus the draft capital.

Buyouts

Rick DiPietro: $0

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	$84,005,833	$0	$57,500	-$505,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Barzal, Mathew $9,150,000$9,150,000 C, RW UFA - 8	Horvat, Bo $8,500,000$8,500,000 C NTC UFA - 8	Schmaltz, Nick $5,850,000$5,850,000 RW, C M-NTC UFA - 3
Engvall, Pierre $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 7	Nelson, Brock $6,000,000$6,000,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Palmieri, Kyle $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Holmström, Simon $863,333$863,333 RW RFA - 1	Iskhakov, Ruslan $855,000$855,000 ($57,500$58K) C RFA - 1	Gauthier, Julien $787,500$787,500 RW UFA - 2
Lee, Anders $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW NTC UFA - 3	Cizikas, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 C UFA - 4	Fasching, Hudson $775,000$775,000 RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pelech, Adam $5,750,000$5,750,000 LD NTC UFA - 6	Pulock, Ryan $6,150,000$6,150,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Sorokin, Ilya $4,000,000$4,000,000 G UFA - 1
Romanov, Alexander $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD RFA - 2	Dobson, Noah $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD RFA - 2	Varlamov, Semyon $2,750,000$2,750,000 G NTC UFA - 4
Reilly, Mike $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Mayfield, Scott $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 7

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Aho, Sebastian $825,000$825,000 LD UFA - 1
Clutterbuck, Cal $1,750,000$1,750,000 RW UFA - 1
Martin, Matt $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Dec. 8, 2023 at 7:17 p.m.

buffdaddy

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You still have time to delete this

Dec. 8, 2023 at 7:18 p.m.

Dekes

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Arizona would definitely want a 1st instead of the 2 other picks.

Pageau is overpaid and not what Arizona needs and doesn’t fit their timeline and wahlstrom has panned out to what he was supposed to be. Not a whole lot attractive assets coming back for arizonas 2nd/3rd best forward

Dec. 8, 2023 at 7:19 p.m.

joshelkin

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Quoting: Dekes

I’d be fine with a first round pick. Not sure how hard AZ would push back on it vs a 2nd and 3rd with the actual cash savings. But yeah I’d do it

Edit: made the trade a 1st round pick

Dec. 8, 2023 at 7:23 p.m.

joshelkin

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Quoting: buffdaddy

You still have time to delete this

I changed it to a 1st round pick since your comment but I think this is fine and along the lines of the DeBrincat package.

Dec. 8, 2023 at 7:28 p.m.

Rags21

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Quoting: joshelkin

I changed it to a 1st round pick since your comment but I think this is fine and along the lines of the DeBrincat package.

You can’t use the DeBrincat trade as an example since he would only go to Detroit lol

You say AZ is weak at center and Pageau doesn’t even fix that nor has any value like wahlstrom

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