Time to hop on the Z train

Created by: Imagine874859

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 9, 2024

Published: Jan. 9, 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

Description

3 way trade

PIT gets:
Trevor Zegras

ANA gets:
Andrei Kuzmenko
Hunter Brzustewicz
2024 VAN 1st
Owen Pickering
2025 PIT 2nd

VAN gets:
Jake Guentzel
Ilya Lybushkin

**In the trade below I put Myers in the trades to send players where they need to go. Disregard that, Myers is not in this deal

Trades

PIT

Zegras, Trevor

ANA

Pickering, Owen
2024 2nd round pick (PIT)

PIT

Brzustewicz, Hunter [Reserve List]
Kuzmenko, Andrei
Myers, Tyler
2024 1st round pick (VAN)

VAN

Guentzel, Jake

PIT

ANA

Kuzmenko, Andrei
Myers, Tyler
2024 1st round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Hunter Brzustewicz

PIT

2025 3rd round pick (TOR)

TOR

Acciari, Noel
2025 5th round pick (PIT)

PIT

2025 2nd round pick (NJD)

NJD

Graves, Ryan
2025 4th round pick (PIT)

PIT

SJS

Poulin, Samuel
2025 2nd round pick (NJD)
2025 3rd round pick (PIT)
2026 3rd round pick (PIT)

PIT

MTL

2025 3rd round pick (TOR)
2026 2nd 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	$83,831,009	$0	$15,000	-$331,009

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Zegras, Trevor $5,750,000$5,750,000 C, LW RFA - 3	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
Duclair, Anthony $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Monahan, Sean $1,985,000$1,985,000 ($15,000$15K) C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Puustinen, Valtteri $775,000$775,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Ferraro, Mario $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD UFA - 3	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
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Zohorna, Radim $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jan. 9 at 7:09 p.m.

Vancity2196

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 3,789

Likes: 1,208

Canucks pass.

Jan. 9 at 7:15 p.m.

brgh4life

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 2,705

Likes: 994

I don't get why the Pens do this. You trade a top tier winger a 2nd one of their only good prospects for a young struggling winger that doesn't fit their window.

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Jan. 9 at 7:21 p.m.

NHLfan10506

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 40,672

Likes: 18,517

So....

ANA gives:
Trevor Zegras
Ilya Lybushkin

ANA gets:
Andrei Kuzmenko
Hunter Brzustewicz
Owen Pickering
2024 VAN 1st
2025 PIT 2nd

----

PIT Gives
Jake Guentzel
Owen Pickering
2025 PIT 2nd

PIT gets:
Trevor Zegras

----

VAN Gives
Andrei Kuzmenko
Hunter Brzustewicz
2024 VAN 1st

VAN gets:
Jake Guentzel
Ilya Lybushkin

(just easier to view with both give/get in 3-ways)

I think that is a tough one for VAN

I'd take out Brzustewicz, add Hoglander...and add a smaller piece from PIT to ANA

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Jan. 9 at 7:22 p.m.

Jerdog666

its in the game

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 192

Likes: 27

Vancouver wont give up this much for a rental player.

Jan. 9 at 7:28 p.m.

pensfan21

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 3,632

Likes: 1,271

This is an interesting idea. I would prefer to get a 1st and an A prospect from trading Guentzel. But Zegras would give us tons of flexibility with the lineup. Him playing with Crosby would improve his numbers a ton and that could be the trade that kick starts the rebuild maybe after next season a year and a half from now or he could be someone we build the team around. Would help us contend now and also help the future. I don't know if I am fully on board but its really interesting

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