Off-season Retool

Created by: fangm

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 21, 2024

Published: Mar. 21, 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

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Liljegren, Timothy	4	$3,500,000
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier	2	$850,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$1,250,000
Robertson, Nicholas	3	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Nedeljkovic, Alex	1	$1,500,000
Stamkos, Steven	3	$6,500,000
Kane, Patrick	3	$5,000,000
MacDermid, Kurtis	2	$1,000,000

Trades

PIT

Liljegren, Timothy [RFA Rights]
Robertson, Nicholas [RFA Rights]

TOR

2025 1st round pick (PIT)
2026 3rd round pick (SJS)

PIT

2024 4th round pick (SJS)

ARI

Smith, Reilly

PIT

Hall, Taylor ($3,000,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Money still works out on favour of the Hawks cause both contracts are front loaded so they retain less real money on Hall and pay Rakell less than his cap hit over the rest of his deal.

CHI

Rakell, Rickard
2024 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
23	$87,700,000	$87,579,342	$0	$0	$120,658

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Stamkos, Steven $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW, C UFA	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	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Kane, Patrick $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW UFA
Hall, Taylor $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 1	Robertson, Nicholas $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW RFA
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Puustinen, Valtteri $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA
Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 1		Puljujärvi, Jesse $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 1

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
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $850,000$850,000 LD RFA	Liljegren, Timothy $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD RFA
MacDermid, Kurtis $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD/RD, LW UFA

Top Comments

Mar. 21 at 10:29 p.m.

jfkst1

"Go sell ice cream!"

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 3,021

Likes: 1,357

The Smith trade is fine is it can happen. No thanks on the other two.

Mar. 21 at 10:29 p.m.

Garak

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 10,936

Likes: 10,741

That isn't nearly enough to move that Rakell contract, let alone get Hall with retention, too.

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Mar. 21 at 10:50 p.m.

Snowhawk18

Snowhawk

Joined: Jul. 2022

Posts: 2,424

Likes: 3,464

LOL, that is brutal for Chicago.

How exactly does the money work out in favour of Chicago? Rackell is owed $18m over the next four seasons whereas Hall is owed $5.25m for one season of which you want the Hawks to retain 50%. I know math is hard but holy crap man.

Additionally, the Hawks will end up with cap hits of $8m, $5m, $5m and $5m over the next four seasons and the Penguins $3m for one year. Now if Rackell was playing well you could argue it is worth the investment for Chicago but he’s not, he has been an overpaid, underperforming bust in Pittsburgh.

It would take more then a 1st round pick to move Rackell’s contract on it’s own. Then another 1st round pick to get Hall with 50% retention.

I would counter with:

To Pittsburgh: Hall 50% retained

To Chicago: Rackell, Yager, Pittsburgh’s 2024 2nd round pick, Pittsburgh’s 2026 1st round pick.

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Mar. 21 at 11:29 p.m.

pens1991

Joined: Jul. 2022

Posts: 2,966

Likes: 1,095

oh wow, it's almost like the poster is a leafs fan.... That TOR trade is garbage for PIT

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Mar. 22 at 9:39 a.m.

PaulKorea

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 786

Likes: 1,208

That is AWFUL for Chicago.

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