Continue to Rebuild Even Without That Dirty Word Being Said

Created by: edeangel84

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 8, 2024

Published: Mar. 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

Operation soft rebuild is upon us and let it commence!

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Barklund, Filip	3	$865,000
Collins, Nolan	3	$865,000
Nickl, Thimo	3	$875,000
Yager, Brayden	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$950,000
Bemström, Emil	1	$1,200,000
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier	1	$1,200,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Nedeljkovic, Alex	1	$1,750,000
Greer, AJ	1	$1,350,000
Stecher, Troy	1	$950,000

Trades

PIT

2025 5th round pick (SJS)
2026 3rd round pick (FLA)

FLA

Smith, Reilly ($2,000,000 retained)

PIT

Barklund, Filip [Reserve List]
Kerfoot, Alexander
Lipkin, Sam [Reserve List]
2025 3rd round pick (NYR)

ARI

Nieto, Matt
Rakell, Rickard
Tankov, Kirill [Reserve List]
2026 4th round pick (PIT)

PIT

Kulak, Brett
2026 3rd round pick (EDM)
2026 4th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Eller, Lars

PIT

Bourque, Mavrik
Faksa, Radek
2026 2nd round pick (DAL)

Additional Details:

Top 10 prospected

DAL

Pettersson, Marcus

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)
Reilly Smith: $2,000,000 (40%)

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
23	$87,700,000	$77,974,167	$0	$102,500	$9,725,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 4
Bunting, Michael $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bourque, Mavrik $894,167$894,167 C RFA - 1	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Puustinen, Valtteri $950,000$950,000 RW, LW UFA	Ponomarev, Vasili $795,000$795,000 ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 1	Koivunen, Ville $805,833$805,833 ($82,500$82K) RW RFA - 2
Faksa, Radek $3,250,000$3,250,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bemström, Emil $1,200,000$1,200,000 RW, LW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 5	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 3	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD RFA	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,750,000$1,750,000 G UFA
Kulak, Brett $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Stecher, Troy $950,000$950,000 RD UFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1
Greer, AJ $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW, LW UFA
Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 9 at 12:27 a.m.

Play_Party_Hard

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 921

Likes: 380

I like the title, glad I'm not the only one who thinks the organization doesn't want to use that word lol.

I do think though Dubas is unjustly being painted as a villain.

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Mar. 9 at 12:46 a.m.

edeangel84

JimmyPaek

Joined: Apr. 2019

Posts: 3,945

Likes: 1,175

Quoting: Play_Party_Hard

I like the title, glad I'm not the only one who thinks the organization doesn't want to use that word lol.

I do think though Dubas is unjustly being painted as a villain.[/quote

That’s being done by Toronto based media who built him up as a wiz kid god and then tore him down because an excuse was needed for why the Leafs continue to be such a poorly run organization.

Play_Party_Hard liked this.

Mar. 9 at 3:35 p.m.

BELIEVEnPENGUINS

Pens71

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 119

Likes: 53

yeah, no thanks to this lineup even though I like the title. Dubas said Koivunen would not start the season with the Pens, he would need time in Wilkes Barre to adjust to North American hockey. maybe at some point next season but not to begin. Bemstrom better not get 1.2million and on our opening day lines. Why O'Connor isn't playing is crazy to me. and plenty more issues with this.

Mar. 9 at 4:26 p.m.

edeangel84

JimmyPaek

Joined: Apr. 2019

Posts: 3,945

Likes: 1,175

Quoting: BELIEVEnPENGUINS

I don’t expect him to be with the team all season or even a 1/3 of it. I’m just showing where I’d like to see him in the lineup assuming he gets a bit of time in the NHL.

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