Where Were Going We Dont Need Budgets

Created by: Boush

Team: 2024-25 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 6, 2024

Published: Feb. 6, 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

If Oshie LTIRetires in the offseason, one of TvR or Jensen is traded at the 23-24 deadline and the other at the draft, then the Caps could buy out Kuzy and Kuemper, sign the biggest UFAs available, re-sign all their key RFAs, and have cap space left to swing a massive trade for a true 1C, all without putting themselves in cap hell in the couple years to follow. It's a little wild, and this team could look a lot different in just 6 months.

As for the two trades, doesn't have to be those two teams. Third-round pick returns for each is probably fair-ish from wherever they land.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Leonard, Ryan		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McMichael, Connor	5	$4,000,000
Sandin, Rasmus	5	$4,000,000
Sutter, Riley	2	$875,000
Gibson, Mitchell	2	$875,000
Frank, Ethen	2	$875,000
Häman Aktell, Hardy	2	$875,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Guentzel, Jake	6	$8,250,000
Nedeljkovic, Alex	2	$2,125,000
Fischer, Christian	2	$1,500,000

Trades

WSH

2024 3rd round pick (NSH)

NSH

Jensen, Nick

WSH

2024 3rd round pick (NYI)

TOR

van Riemsdyk, Trevor

Buyouts

Darcy Kuemper: $2,166,667
Evgeny Kuznetsov: $3,800,000

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	$88,000,000	$75,659,167	$2,252,500	$1,252,500	$12,340,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $8,250,000$8,250,000 LW, RW UFA	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 4	Wilson, Tom $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 7
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	McMichael, Connor $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, C RFA	Leonard, Ryan $950,000$950,000 RW RFA
Miroshnichenko, Ivan $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LW RFA - 2	Lapierre, Hendrix $863,333$863,333 ($445,000$445K) C RFA - 1	Protas, Aliaksei $3,375,000$3,375,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 5
Fischer, Christian $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 1	Sutter, Riley $875,000$875,000 RW RFA
Milano, Sonny $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Sandin, Rasmus $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 5	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Lindgren, Charlie $1,100,000$1,100,000 G UFA - 1
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Bear, Ethan $2,062,500$2,062,500 RD UFA - 1	Nedeljkovic, Alex $2,125,000$2,125,000 G UFA
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Iorio, Vincent $814,167$814,167 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 2
Häman Aktell, Hardy $875,000$875,000 LD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1
		Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Feb. 6 at 1:48 p.m.

GoGuinsGo_18

ZarktheShark

Joined: Jul. 2023

Posts: 145

Likes: 64

If Guentzel is good with a 6 X 8.25 he's staying in Pittsburgh. I'd be willing to give him up to 10, maybe even 10.5, but no more than a 6 year term if I'm Dubas....But either way I imagine his next contract wherever will be at least 6 X 9 or 9.5 (if not 8 years) on the low end....

Feb. 6 at 2:33 p.m.

Sprak

Caps fan

Joined: May 2023

Posts: 520

Likes: 150

Quoting: GoGuinsGo_18

I do believe that in this scenario, the caps could offer him a 20 million AAV and still be under the cap, so I don't think the numbers matter as much as the players added

Feb. 6 at 2:42 p.m.

villenash

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 10,290

Likes: 7,142

No thanks

Feb. 6 at 3:03 p.m.

GoGuinsGo_18

ZarktheShark

Joined: Jul. 2023

Posts: 145

Likes: 64

Quoting: Sprak

I do believe that in this scenario, the caps could offer him a 20 million AAV and still be under the cap, so I don't think the numbers matter as much as the players added

Copy that. I see what you were doing now..

Feb. 6 at 3:49 p.m.

Boush

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 416

Likes: 61

Quoting: GoGuinsGo_18

Copy that. I see what you were doing now..

Yep, what he said. I definitely think the 6x8.25 is the floor for Guentzel, and he would take it for the right team (staying in Pitt would definitely be an option there). He'll be a fascinating player to see on the oPen market because I think he generally caps out at around 5x9, but some lunatic is going to come out with a 7x9.5 or something.

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