How I would see a Guentzel trade

Created by: BestGMBenning

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 14, 2024

Published: Jan. 14, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Accurate/Prorated

LTIR Enabled: Yes

Season Days: 192

Days Remaining: 95

Season Remaining: 49%

Projected Cap Hit Prior To Days Remaining

: $84,987,094

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

Line ups could change once Podkolzin gets it going and find himself in the top 6

Trades

PIT

Kuzmenko, Andrei
Podkolzin, Vasily
2024 1st round pick (VAN)

VAN

Guentzel, Jake
2024 2nd round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

It’s hard not to involve Kuzmenko with how bad things have been for him this year and it would make perfect sense to send him off elsewhere. It’s also hard not to involve a younger talent like Podkolzin as he’s stuck in the minors and with a prospect like Lekkerimaki, could make Podz available for trade. And then the first will always be involved.
As for Pittsburghs side of things if we want a haul like this from Vancouver, realistically we'd have to throw in a draft pick to make this more appealing for teams to take.

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
21	$83,500,000	$82,854,342	$0	$850,000	$645,658

Prorated Cap Hit

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$457,682 LW UFA - 2	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$4,304,688 C NMC UFA - 2	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$2,473,958 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Kuzmenko, Andrei $5,500,000$2,721,354 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$3,018,229 C NMC UFA - 3	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$2,535,807 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Podkolzin, Vasily $925,000$457,682 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$1,212,240 C UFA - 2	Puustinen, Valtteri $775,000$383,464 RW, LW UFA - 1
Harkins, Jansen $850,000$420,573 LW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$989,583 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$1,546,224 RW, C NMC UFA - 1
Zohorna, Radim $775,000$383,464 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$1,991,623 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$3,018,229 RD NMC UFA - 5	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$2,659,505 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$2,226,563 LD M-NTC UFA - 6	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$4,947,917 RD NMC UFA - 4	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$742,188 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$408,203 LD RFA - 1	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$395,833 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$2,473,958 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Nieto, Matt $900,000$445,313 LW, RW UFA - 2
		Ludvig, John $775,000$383,464 LD RFA - 2

Top Comments

Jan. 14 at 2:32 p.m.

mv21227

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 10,229

Likes: 9,446

Based on reports/rumours I think the Canucks would be more likely to include Hoglander over Podkolzin in a trade

Jan. 14 at 2:36 p.m.

Vancity2196

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 3,789

Likes: 1,208

Canucks pass.
Canucks can’t afford Guentzel.

Jan. 14 at 2:41 p.m.

Victor24

Joined: Mar. 2023

Posts: 2,813

Likes: 956

I don't know how much the Pens would like Podkolzin but if they like him a lot, then removing the 2nd would make the trade acceptable for the Pens.

A 1st and 2nd swap would essentially be trading down 20ish spots.

Jan. 14 at 2:43 p.m.

pens1991

Joined: Jul. 2022

Posts: 2,971

Likes: 1,096

This is an easy no for the penguins.

For starters they're not sending a 2nd round pick back to the canucks and as @victor24 mentioned that's basically swapping a late 1st for a mid 2nd.

Second, the penguins if they sell Jake are going to retain 50%, so Kuzmenko absolutely doesn't need to be involved, that's not the penguins problem.

2024 1st + Hoglander + Podkolzin would probably get Jake at 50% retention.

Jan. 14 at 3:30 p.m.

Coleharborcrosby

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 2,156

Likes: 367

Pens not doing this

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