Kessel and Zaitsev

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Created by: Night_King

Team: 2019-20 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 2, 2019

Published: Jun. 2, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Zaitsev going to Pittsburgh kinda makes sense to me. For Gudbranson, with only two years left at $4mill vs. Five years at $4.5mill. But the Pens taking Zaitsev’s full contract might be a huge risk for them, maybe TOR retains his contract for $500k. In my mind, the trade would look like this:

Nikita Zaitsev ($4mill), Connor Brown ($2.1mill)

For

Erik Gudbranson ($4mill), Dominik Simon ($750k) & a 4th round pick (2019)

Zaitsev could be mentored by Gonchar and Geno, and could perhaps bounce back. Thoughts? Or would you prefer that I don’t retain Zaitsev’s contract?

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Aston-Reese, Zach	2	$1,250,000
Blandisi, Joseph	1	$700,000
Blueger, Teddy	2	$825,000
Johnson, Adam	2	$750,000
Siebenaler, Blake	2	$750,000
Pettersson, Marcus	2	$2,075,000
Ho-Sang, Joshua	1	$875,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Wilson, Garrett		1	$700,000
Trotman, Zach		2	$775,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Broberg, Philip		3	$925,000

Trades

PIT

Galchenyuk, Alex
2019 1st round pick (ARI)
2019 3rd round pick (CHI)

Additional Details:

Signs an extension with the Pens for 5 years at $6,250,000

ARI

Kessel, Phil
2019 1st round pick (PIT)

PIT

Brown, Connor
Zaitsev, Nikita ($500,000 retained)

TOR

Gudbranson, Erik
Simon, Dominik
2019 4th round pick (BUF)

PIT

2019 2nd round pick (CBJ)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,000,000	$78,057,500	$132,500	$0	$4,942,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
McCann, Jared $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Galchenyuk, Alex $4,900,000$4,900,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1
Brown, Connor $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Bjugstad, Nick $2,050,000$2,050,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Hörnqvist, Patric $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW NTC UFA - 4
Aston-Reese, Zach $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Ho-Sang, Joshua $875,000$875,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Komarov, Leo $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW, C M-NTC UFA - 3
	Blueger, Teddy $825,000$825,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Wilson, Garrett $700,000$700,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dumoulin, Brian $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Murray, Matt $3,750,000$3,750,000 G UFA - 1
Pettersson, Marcus $2,075,000$2,075,000 LD UFA - 1	Schultz, Justin $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1	DeSmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000 G UFA - 3
	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 5
Riikola, Juuso $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1	Ruhwedel, Chad $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 2

Jun. 2, 2019 at 6:59 p.m.

ExpectedHockey

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 9

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As Toronto I'd shut down that Zaitsev proposal in a heartbeat, even without the retained salary.

Jun. 2, 2019 at 7:01 p.m.

Sidstick87

Hockey God Genius

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 3,261

Likes: 811

Id rather keep Guddy and Simon for less $ and Simon has a ton more upside than Brown

Jun. 2, 2019 at 7:03 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 59,972

Likes: 22,930

It's not enough of "cap gap" between Gudbranson and Zaitsev to make the deal worthwhile for the Leafs. Gee, Zaitsev apparently said he would never play for the Leafs". So the Leafs wait for not to report then the Leafs are 4.5m cap free.

Jun. 3, 2019 at 9:19 a.m.

Lavitz66

Joined: Feb. 2019

Posts: 42

Likes: 10

Still don't get the point of a lot of these Kessel trades. You're trading someone averaging over a ppg the last two seasons for someone who got 41 points last year and has never been close to Kessel's numbers, then turning around and signing him for more money than you were responsible for with Kessel. Kessel could drop off 20% a year and still be above or at galchenyuk's usual production by the end of this contract.

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