We Could Have Won Another Cup Between 2020-2023

Created by: la_scaloneta

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 2, 2024

Published: Jan. 2, 2024

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

Free Agent Signings

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Jarry, Tristan	1	$3,500,000
Desmith, Casey	1	$1,250,000
Rust, Bryan	1	$3,500,000
Malkin, Evgeni	1	$9,500,000
McCann, Jared	1	$2,940,000
Letang, Kris	1	$7,250,000
Sheary, Conor	1	$1,500,000
Heinen, Danton	1	$1,100,000
Rodrigues, Evan	1	$1,000,000
Blueger, Teddy	1	$2,500,000
Gaudreau, Frederick	1	$1,200,000
Reilly, Mike	1	$900,000
Simon, Dominik	1	$800,000
Ruhwedel, Chad	1	$800,000

Trades

PIT

Never extended

LAK

Carter, Jeff

PIT

Conor Sheary

WSH

Extended at 1x735K and 2x1.5 million - while Pens fans are right he lacks the ability to play alongside Crosby, we signed Jankowski over this guy for the bottom 6

PIT

Danton Heinen

BOS

Great bottom 6 player - should never been let go especially at 1 million AAV

PIT

Jared McCann

SEA

Exposing him at the expansion draft is up there with the worst moves in PIT history

PIT

Matheson, Michael

MTL

Jeff Petry - the fact MoRon Hextall was allowed to make 3 bonehead moves 1 after another shows how GMs aren’t fired so easily

PIT

Marino, John

NJD

Smith, Ty

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Another terrible move

PIT

Teddy Blueger

VGK

We basically got nothing for the guy

PIT

Frederick Gaudreau

MIN

Letting this guy go at 1.2 million was also a joke - you can’t buy and sell depth players like you are plugging holes - guys who fit your system and are available for cheap have to retained

PIT

Mike Reilly - he would’ve been perfect for our third pair - why didn’t we go for him?

OTT

2021 3rd Rounder

10.

PIT

Dominik Simon

CGY

Again he is not good enough to be Crosby’s linemate, but for 700k and a great player for the system, why not bring him back for the bottom 6?

11.

PIT

Marner, Mitchell

TOR

Brian Dumoulin
Jason Zucker
2022 1st

*Dumoulin was unplayable after the 2019-20 season and Zucker was injury prone - I believe we should have used the 2021 1st round pick on Marner instead of Kapanen

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

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$77,622,342	$0	$0	$3,877,658

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	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW NMC UFA - 2
McCann, Jared $2,940,000$2,940,000	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000	Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000
Heinen, Danton $1,100,000$1,100,000	Rodrigues, Evan $1,000,000$1,000,000	Sheary, Conor $1,500,000$1,500,000
Simon, Dominik $800,000$800,000	Blueger, Teddy $2,500,000$2,500,000	Gaudreau, Frederick $1,200,000$1,200,000

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000	Jarry, Tristan $3,500,000$3,500,000
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 4	Desmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000
Reilly, Mike $900,000$900,000	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
		O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 2
		Zohorna, Radim $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
		Harkins, Jansen $850,000$850,000 LW UFA - 1
		Puustinen, Valtteri $775,000$775,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5
		Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
		Hinostroza, Vinnie $775,000$775,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		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
		Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
		Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
		Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1
		Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1
		Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 2
		Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
		Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2
		Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3
		Shea, Ryan $775,000$775,000 LD UFA - 1
		Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 4
		Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 6

Top Comments

Jan. 2 at 10:19 a.m.

Lancebmx

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 10,951

Likes: 8,507

It all makes sense until you attempted to add a Marner trade in there.

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Jan. 2 at 10:20 a.m.

Brad_Treliving

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 3,729

Likes: 822

I thought Dubas was the saviour and is going to win the cup

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Jan. 2 at 10:31 a.m.

la_scaloneta

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 1,078

Likes: 162

Quoting: Brad_Treliving

I thought Dubas was the saviour and is going to win the cup

Other than the Graves signing and not getting rid of Carter, he has been not bad. Most of these moves were MoRon’s mess.

Jan. 2 at 10:34 a.m.

la_scaloneta

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 1,078

Likes: 162

Quoting: Lancebmx

It all makes sense until you attempted to add a Marner trade in there.

I think Dubas would’ve pounced on it tbh, he loves analytics dorks like Dumoulin.

Jan. 2 at 10:35 a.m.

Brad_Treliving

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 3,729

Likes: 822

Quoting: la_scaloneta

Other than the Graves signing and not getting rid of Carter, he has been not bad. Most of these moves were MoRon’s mess.

EK trade says otherwise. 33 YO defensemen for 4 more years at $10M who can't defend for the life of him

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