My Hindsight 2018-19 Team

Created by: la_scaloneta

Team: 2025-26 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 10, 2024

Published: Jan. 10, 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
Guentzel, Jake	1	$925,000
Crosby, Sidney	1	$8,700,000
Malkin, Evgeni	1	$9,500,000
Hornqvist, Patric	1	$5,500,000
Hagelin, Carl	1	$4,000,000
Brassard, Derick	1	$3,000,000
Letang, Kris	1	$7,250,000
Dumoulin, Brian	1	$4,100,000
Maatta, Olli	1	$4,083,000
Oleksiak, Jamie	1	$2,037,500
Pettersson, Marcus	1	$925,000
Sheahan, Riley	1	$2,100,000
Marner, Mitchell	1	$925,000
Sheary, Conor	1	$3,000,000
Murray, Matt	1	$3,750,000
Simon, Dominik	1	$800,000
Domi, Max	1	$3,500,000
Desmith, Casey	1	$800,000
Kuhnhackl, Tom	1	$800,000
Strome, Dylan	1	$894,166
Ruhwedel, Chad	1	$800,000
Karlsson, Erik	1	$6,500,000

Trades

PIT

Mitchell Marner

*Done during 2018 offseason after Leafs refused extending Marner 9x8

TOR

Bryan Rust
Justin Schultz

*Although Rust turned out to be a better player than Sheary & Simon, I believe he lacked the hockey IQ and vision to play a cycle game - he mainly did his offensive off the rush - he would’ve been an awesome player for Toronto alongside Hyman & Matthews, really clutch player

*Schultz is a terrific offensive defenceman but his defensive coverage is the worst I’ve ever seen - however, he was eating big minutes with Pittsburgh and I believe Toronto would’ve been desperate enough given their hole at 1RD - he is better than Brodie

PIT

Max Domi
Dylan Strome

*Done during 2018 offseason

ARI

Phil Kessel

*I loved Kessel but after the HBK line served it’s purpose, he was a problem for us at 5v5 - he didn’t mesh extremely well with either Sid or Geno, and he refused to play with Brassard

No one will replace his powerplay impact but the problem I was Hagelin-Malkin-Hornqvist was one of the best 5v5 lines the Penguins ever had, and they sacrificed that to force Geno & Phil to play effectively together

PIT

2018 4th Round Pick

BUF

Zach Aston-Reese
Matt Hunwick

*I would’ve sacrificed ZAR instead of Sheary. A lot of PIT fans don’t like Sheary but his hockey sense was off the charts, he had great speed, vision and I believe that a Simon-Brassard-Sheary line would have never exited the offensive zone because they are a forechecking and transition machine

PIT

Tom Kuhnhackl

NYI

*Brought back - injuries ruined him but he was solid for the Islanders in 2018-19, and he was making only 800k a week - he is like Hagelin lite

PIT

Erik Karlsson

*Done during 2018/19 offseason

OTT

Teddy Blueger
Tristan Jarry
Filip Gustavsson
Zachary Lauzon
Calen Addison
2019 1st
2020 1st

*Based on what San Jose gave up

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

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	$79,000,000	$74,806,333	$0	$0	$4,193,667

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $925,000$925,000	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000	Marner, Mitchell $925,000$925,000
Hagelin, Carl $4,000,000$4,000,000	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000	Hornqvist, Patric $5,500,000$5,500,000
Sheary, Conor $3,000,000$3,000,000	Brassard, Derick $3,000,000$3,000,000	Simon, Dominik $800,000$800,000
Domi, Max $3,500,000$3,500,000	Sheahan, Riley $2,100,000$2,100,000	Kuhnhackl, Tom $800,000$800,000

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dumoulin, Brian $4,100,000$4,100,000	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000	Murray, Matt $3,750,000$3,750,000
Maatta, Olli $4,083,000$4,083,000	Karlsson, Erik $6,500,000$6,500,000	Desmith, Casey $800,000$800,000
Pettersson, Marcus $925,000$925,000	Oleksiak, Jamie $2,037,500$2,037,500

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000		Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Strome, Dylan $894,166$894,166		Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
		Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
		Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4
		Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
		Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 3
		Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 2
		Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jan. 10 at 7:35 p.m.

JaredOfLondon

Joined: May 2019

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Yeah, there was no way the leafs were ever gonna touch that

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Jan. 10 at 7:36 p.m.

AntiAnalytics

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I’m sorry u don’t have anything better going on in your life than to re-imagine what “could’ve been” 5yrs ago
Good luck with that

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Jan. 10 at 7:39 p.m.

la_scaloneta

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Quoting: JaredOfLondon

Yeah, there was no way the leafs were ever gonna touch that

I believe Lou would’ve jumped all over it tbh, he loves players with cup winning pedigree.

Jan. 10 at 7:39 p.m.

la_scaloneta

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Quoting: AntiAnalytics

I’m sorry u don’t have anything better going on in your life than to re-imagine what “could’ve been” 5yrs ago
Good luck with that

It’s cuz our team is so bad now. Well actually, we might make the playoffs but I don’t think we’re beating Florida or Winnipeg.

Jan. 10 at 7:47 p.m.

JaredOfLondon

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Quoting: la_scaloneta

I believe Lou would’ve jumped all over it tbh, he loves players with cup winning pedigree.

no, he really wouldnt have, it's a terrible trade for the leafs and even Lou would be able to see that and the fact that those guys were like the 13th and 15th most important part of that cup team is why.

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