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Team: 2018-19 Washington Capitals
Initial Creation Date: May 4, 2018
Published: May 4, 2018
Salary Cap Mode: Basic
Free Agent Signings
RFAYEARSCAP HIT
4$3,200,000
UFAYEARSCAP HIT
6$7,500,000
2$3,000,000
2$950,000
Wahlstrom, Oliver
3$925,000
2$2,600,000
3$4,000,000
2$1,000,000
3$3,450,000
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1.
WSH
  1. 2019 7th round pick (DAL)
DAL
  1. Orpik, Brooks ($1,000,000 retained)
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Future considerations
2.
NYR
  1. 2020 7th round pick (WSH)
3.
WSH
    13th overall pick in 2018 NHL draft
    PHI
    1. 2020 4th round pick (WSH)
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    RFA rights to Philip Grubauer
    2018 First round pick
    2018 second round pick
    4.
    WSH
    1. 2019 7th round pick (VAN)
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    7th overall pick in 2018 draft
    VAN
    1. Wilson, Tom
    2. 2019 6th round pick (WSH)
    Additional Details:
    13th overall pick in 2018 draft
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    22$82,000,000$73,249,295$82,500$600,000$8,750,705
    Left WingCentreRight Wing
    Wahlstrom, Oliver
    $925,000$925,000
    $3,900,000$3,900,000
    C
    UFA - 7
    $9,538,462$9,538,462
    LW
    M-NTC
    UFA - 3
    $3,000,000$3,000,000
    RW, LW
    UFA - 1
    $6,700,000$6,700,000
    C
    M-NTC
    UFA - 2
    $5,750,000$5,750,000
    RW
    M-NTC
    UFA - 7
    $863,333$863,333 (Performance Bonus$600,000$600K)
    LW
    UFA - 1
    $2,415,000$2,415,000
    C
    UFA - 5
    $3,000,000$3,000,000
    LW, RW
    UFA
    $2,600,000$2,600,000
    LW, RW
    UFA - 1
    $4,000,000$4,000,000
    C, RW
    UFA - 3
    $1,500,000$1,500,000
    RW, LW
    UFA - 1
    $650,000$650,000
    C, LW
    UFA - 1
    Left DefenseRight DefenseGoaltender
    $1,275,000$1,275,000
    LD
    UFA - 5
    $7,500,000$7,500,000
    RD
    UFA - 8
    $6,100,000$6,100,000
    G
    M-NTC
    UFA - 2
    $3,450,000$3,450,000
    LD
    UFA - 4
    $5,750,000$5,750,000
    RD
    M-NTC
    UFA - 3
    $950,000$950,000
    G
    UFA - 1
    $650,000$650,000
    LD
    UFA - 1
    $1,000,000$1,000,000
    LD
    UFA - 2
    $650,000$650,000
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    UFA - 1

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    May 4, 2018 at 7:23 a.m.
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    BigBeardBurns
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    I agree with Backstrom. I hate this league. The Caps should b up 3-1 one way or another
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    May 4, 2018 at 9:24 a.m.
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    Quoting: BigBeardBurns
    I agree with Backstrom. I hate this league. The Caps should b up 3-1 one way or another


    Hahaha well thank God you don't just get to gift a team a W.. Go out and earn it and quit your whining, your team blows it every year
    May 4, 2018 at 9:24 a.m.
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    Edited May 4, 2018 at 9:40 a.m.
    Quoting: BigBeardBurns
    I agree with Backstrom. I hate this league. The Caps should b up 3-1 one way or another


    It's just a game, but in a country swept up in a wave of hating its own captal city out of some combined misunderstanding of libertarianism and the Hunger Games? The NHL's manipulation of the Caps-Pens rivalry, from openly rigging the lottery to give Crosby to Pittsburgh, to every questionable call since then, have served to make Washington look like a sympathetic underdog town where regular, hardworking people can't get a break, and make a little steel mining town up in the hills look like the obnoxious millionaire illuminati.

    Edit: I think the worst was the Brass-Hole move, where they agreed to completely breach the point of the salary cap, which is to establish parity between teams, just to give the Penguins more depth at center to help make them an unbeatable dynasty.

    If you take away the rigged lottery, and the Brassard BS, the Pens have Malkin, Letang, and who knows. But probably haven't won a Cup since Lemieux.

    I'm not going to get upset about any of it. The Penguins' franchise was in danger of picking up and moving to Kansas city for financial reasons, and they've done a great job of saving it. And they should have done something. The team is owned by Mario Lemieux who played through cancer and led the league in scoring, and then agreed to take over ownership of the team when it couldn't afford to pay him. You can't make up a better hard luck story than that. Western Pennsylvania has become a hotbed for minor pro hockey as well, and the league's job is to create communities of lifelong fans and hockey players, not to be fair to everybody all the time. Basing the lottery after the ownership lockout on several years of results, and not giving any extra weight to the most recent was a pretty carefully calculated move to give Crosby to the team that had just drafted Malkin, but it made sense because that was the only way to chase the table on the progress the NHL had made in Pittsburgh, which had won some pretty impressive championships with an exciting, fast, skilled team in the '90s and really contributed to how the game has embraced skill over toughness, since. I'm not going to be bitter about little tweaks to help the league keep that ball rolling.

    But when the NBC announcers called the Caps, "the crapitals," on the air, I admit I kind of felt like there might be a little bit too much bias against the perennial underdog team I grew up cheering for.

    The Caps were always one of the lowest budget teams in the Eastern Conference playoffs, through the '80s and '90s. Scott Stevens gets offered $5M a year? The Caps owner tells the paper no hockey player is worth that. David Poile had to be a magician to keep that team stocked with fast-skating, hard-hitting defensive players on every line, to be able to frustrate absurdly skilled teams like the Penguins and Rangers (anybody else remember the Rangers before the salary cap. That's why we have the salary cap. They just bought up all the free agents, because they could), but also stand up to goon squads like Philly used to put together.

    A lot of people think of DC as just the Senate. But it's a city of millions of people, most of whom got the best grades of anyone in their small towns and chose a life of public service, working in the shadows to try to make life a little better for the folks back home. Those '90s teams led by Dale Hunter, Mike Ridley, Rod Langway, and Kelly Miller? They found a ton of fans because they were a perfect metaphor for most of the people who move to Washington every year.

    Growing up as a Caps fan, I always dreamed the team would get an effortless goal scorer like Brett Hull, and now they've finally drafted one, but when management talks about how the team needs to hurry up and win a championship while he's here, I'm just like, "oh, you must be new."
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    May 4, 2018 at 9:25 a.m.
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    As a Rangers fan, I will happily give you Kampfer for a 7th. Any chance you wanna take Staal and Smith too? smile
    May 4, 2018 at 10:28 a.m.
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    Quoting: IgorKutchakokov
    Hahaha well thank God you don't just get to gift a team a W.. Go out and earn it and quit your whining, your team blows it every year


    Quoting: Eli
    It's just a game, but in a country swept up in a wave of hating its own captal city out of some combined misunderstanding of libertarianism and the Hunger Games? The NHL's manipulation of the Caps-Pens rivalry, from openly rigging the lottery to give Crosby to Pittsburgh, to every questionable call since then, have served to make Washington look like a sympathetic underdog town where regular, hardworking people can't get a break, and make a little steel mining town up in the hills look like the obnoxious millionaire illuminati.

    Edit: I think the worst was the Brass-Hole move, where they agreed to completely breach the point of the salary cap, which is to establish parity between teams, just to give the Penguins more depth at center to help make them an unbeatable dynasty.

    If you take away the rigged lottery, and the Brassard BS, the Pens have Malkin, Letang, and who knows. But probably haven't won a Cup since Lemieux.

    I'm not going to get upset about any of it. The Penguins' franchise was in danger of picking up and moving to Kansas city for financial reasons, and they've done a great job of saving it. And they should have done something. The team is owned by Mario Lemieux who played through cancer and led the league in scoring, and then agreed to take over ownership of the team when it couldn't afford to pay him. You can't make up a better hard luck story than that. Western Pennsylvania has become a hotbed for minor pro hockey as well, and the league's job is to create communities of lifelong fans and hockey players, not to be fair to everybody all the time. Basing the lottery after the ownership lockout on several years of results, and not giving any extra weight to the most recent was a pretty carefully calculated move to give Crosby to the team that had just drafted Malkin, but it made sense because that was the only way to chase the table on the progress the NHL had made in Pittsburgh, which had won some pretty impressive championships with an exciting, fast, skilled team in the '90s and really contributed to how the game has embraced skill over toughness, since. I'm not going to be bitter about little tweaks to help the league keep that ball rolling.

    But when the NBC announcers called the Caps, "the crapitals," on the air, I admit I kind of felt like there might be a little bit too much bias against the perennial underdog team I grew up cheering for.

    The Caps were always one of the lowest budget teams in the Eastern Conference playoffs, through the '80s and '90s. Scott Stevens gets offered $5M a year? The Caps owner tells the paper no hockey player is worth that. David Poile had to be a magician to keep that team stocked with fast-skating, hard-hitting defensive players on every line, to be able to frustrate absurdly skilled teams like the Penguins and Rangers (anybody else remember the Rangers before the salary cap. That's why we have the salary cap. They just bought up all the free agents, because they could), but also stand up to goon squads like Philly used to put together.

    A lot of people think of DC as just the Senate. But it's a city of millions of people, most of whom got the best grades of anyone in their small towns and chose a life of public service, working in the shadows to try to make life a little better for the folks back home. Those '90s teams led by Dale Hunter, Mike Ridley, Rod Langway, and Kelly Miller? They found a ton of fans because they were a perfect metaphor for most of the people who move to Washington every year.

    Growing up as a Caps fan, I always dreamed the team would get an effortless goal scorer like Brett Hull, and now they've finally drafted one, but when management talks about how the team needs to hurry up and win a championship while he's here, I'm just like, "oh, you must be new."



    Why respond dudes a troll......
    May 4, 2018 at 10:41 a.m.
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    Some good points, some stooopid (sic) points.. But I agree the Pens had gotten very lucky in when they sucked (cheated a bit for Lemieux) they were able to grab Malkin at #2 and Sid #1... Totally agree tho that it's extremely unprofessional for NBC to say crapitals - Our series in the Sid/Ovy era have been airtight, and a bounce or two the other way could have seen Ovy hoisted 1 or more cups. Should be a good mini-series the rest of this year.
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    May 4, 2018 at 10:46 a.m.
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    Edited May 4, 2018 at 11:17 a.m.
    Quoting: dieboldm
    As a Rangers fan, I will happily give you Kampfer for a 7th. Any chance you wanna take Staal and Smith too? smile


    Sure, but Minnesota aren't likely to move Staal, and Ottawa would have to retain 50%.

    Unless you meant Carolina and Vegas. This is just so confusing: https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/131779
    May 4, 2018 at 10:55 a.m.
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    Quoting: IgorKutchakokov
    Some good points, some stooopid (sic) points.. But I agree the Pens had gotten very lucky in when they sucked (cheated a bit for Lemieux) they were able to grab Malkin at #2 and Sid #1... Totally agree tho that it's extremely unprofessional for NBC to say crapitals - Our series in the Sid/Ovy era have been airtight, and a bounce or two the other way could have seen Ovy hoisted 1 or more cups. Should be a good mini-series the rest of this year.


    No. You think you're being kind and acknowledging a point of view.

    You are unaware of the simple fact that the league changed its draft lottery rules to explicitly deny the Caps a chance to have Crosby and Ovechkin together, which they would have had about a 30% chance at under the previous rules?

    Here:

    "What makes this year's draft intriguing is that any of the NHL's 30 teams have a shot at landing the No. 1 pick.

    Each team begins with three balls in the lottery barrel. For every playoff appearance in the last three years or No. 1 overall pick over the last four years, a team loses one ball.

    With that scenario, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus and the New York Rangers have the best chance of drafting Crosby. Each of those teams will have the maximum three balls in the lottery barrel while the rest of the 30 teams will have either two or one.

    Calgary and Edmonton are among the teams with two balls, while Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver each have one.

    The lottery will likely be held at the NHL's board of governors meeting next week at the same time the owners ratify the new CBA.

    Under the previous CBA, one of the league's bottom five teams in the regular season had the chance to win the first overall selection in a lottery situation."

    http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl-draft-lottery-to-determine-crosby-s-fate-1.569257

    The Penguins had outtanked the Caps for Ovechkin (or maybe Matt Yeats really shut down Pittsburgh's streaking offense on his own? Nah) and lost that lottery by pingpong balls, so the league, above, took away all of the Capitals' ping pong balls for the Crosby sweepstakes.

    The league owners could agree that they didn't want to play the 2004-05 season, but they also agreed they didn't want the Capitals, with the second worst record in 03-04 to have any chance to win the draft lottery twice in a row. Crosby wasn't handed to Pittsburgh on a silver platter, but 29 owners sat down and agreed to keep him out of Washington.
    May 4, 2018 at 11:06 a.m.
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    You probably think Bush did 9/11 too - they had to change the rules because there was no hockey for a year lol
    May 4, 2018 at 11:22 a.m.
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    Quoting: IgorKutchakokov
    You probably think Bush did 9/11 too - they had to change the rules because there was no hockey for a year lol


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    Why respond dudes a troll......


    Noted.

    But no. I don't think Bush was responsible for 9/11, except insofar as he put no effort or funding in his first year in office into increasing security--an oversight that may be partially attributed to the fact that his State Department appointees were not primarily diplomats and needed time to familiarize themselves with the actual issues the Department was facing in keeping America safe and building geopolitical relationships.

    The technology to replace the microfiches with computers and check the no-fly list for every visa application existed under Reagan, but wasn't even partly rolled out until Clinton, and even then, the Republican Congress' anti-anything-Democrats-want attitude stymied any question of increased funding to the State Department. So I'd blame a combination of HW Bush, Bob Dole, and Newt Gingrich. Plus, you know, the actual terrorists, and the decades of nobody basing foreign policy on building common interests and shared values in the places they were recruited from, but just monomaniacally focusing on the price of gasoline, instead. And then of course books have been written blaming stovepiping and personal prejudices between intelligence analysts leading to major clues being overlooked just because they were discovered by women.

    Why do you ask?
    May 4, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.
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    It's funny, if anything about such an awful topic can be funny, because all the Caps fans just nodded, like, "yep, that's what happened, and the theory that Bush did it to make more oil money stems from the same defense mechanism as those sick televangelists who sought to make money selling the belief that God was punishing us for sex--trying to fall back on a world view where even though bad things happen, we are protected by an all powerful being, thereby resolving themselves of any personal responsibility for global affairs beyond an abstract duty to show loyalty and gratitude to the great protector."

    And all the Pens fans are like... "what's he talking about? I liked the conspiracy theory better. We won Criesby fehr and square!"
    May 4, 2018 at 12:54 p.m.
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    Quoting: Eli
    It's funny, if anything about such an awful topic can be funny, because all the Caps fans just nodded, like, "yep, that's what happened, and the theory that Bush did it to make more oil money stems from the same defense mechanism as those sick televangelists who sought to make money selling the belief that God was punishing us for sex--trying to fall back on a world view where even though bad things happen, we are protected by an all powerful being, thereby resolving themselves of any personal responsibility for global affairs beyond an abstract duty to show loyalty and gratitude to the great protector."

    And all the Pens fans are like... "what's he talking about? I liked the conspiracy theory better. We won Criesby fehr and square!"


    Or how 66 was selling the pens then they won two cups back to back. Teams not for sale anymore
    May 4, 2018 at 3:34 p.m.
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    Quoting: dieboldm
    As a Rangers fan, I will happily give you Kampfer for a 7th. Any chance you wanna take Staal and Smith too? smile

    I am a rangers fan??
    May 4, 2018 at 7:28 p.m.
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    Quoting: dieboldm
    As a Rangers fan, I will happily give you Kampfer for a 7th. Any chance you wanna take Staal and Smith too? smile



    Quoting: Christiansilvestri
    I am a rangers fan??


    We'll take both of you before Staal and Smith together.

    You don't think Kampfer is an upgrade over Aaron Ness at "minimum wage press box guy?"
     
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