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Created by: pharrow

Team: 2021-22 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 20, 2021

Published: Apr. 20, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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I went with Brock over Hyman. I don't know, I think Hyman will get over paid. He's gone from TOR I'm pretty sure about that. Question is where and for how much.
They give a lot to ANA to take Matheson, A. they need the cap space B. they have a log jam on the bottom 4 and the truth is for what they will pay ZAR they are better off dumping that money into a 3rd liner.
The Benn deal is probably fair. We'll see.

Then there is the NY deal. It doesn't necessarily have to be NY either. It's sort of the idea of packaging them both together to get a solid top 6 guy. I think the NY deal works for both teams.
NY has got to get out of that deal eventually. The numbers work out good here. Zucker has 2 years left, same time Alexis contract is due. McCann has 1 left but is a solid young player to add to their young roster. He can play LW or 3C. NY gets deeper and they shed a contract that probably effects them later. PIT gets a LW for their top 6. It's a win for both teams.
Only hold up is Kreider waiving.
NY can't keep everyone happy. Alexis is eventually going to have to get more minutes. Panarin isn't stepping down he's their best player. Kaapo is already playing RW as a Lefty. Something has to give. It's not going to be the younger players.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Caulfield, Judd		3	$925,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Blueger, Teddy		4	$2,750,000
Zohorna, Radim		2	$850,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
McGinn, Brock		6	$3,750,000
Benn, Jordie		1	$1,500,000

Trades

PIT

Seattle
See ya ZAR, will be rooting for ya over there.

ANA

Aston-Reese, Zach [RFA Rights]
Matheson, Michael
2021 2nd round pick (PIT)

PIT

Carter retires. I know he think's he's staying. He's done. He'll either retire or be traded back to LA. One or the other.

LAK

Carter, Jeff

PIT

Kreider, Chris

Additional Details:

NYR can't hold Alexis and Kaapo back forever. They get a 3LW and a 3C for Kreider. They can afford the cap.

NYR

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $1,166,667

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$79,280,175	$0	$850,000	$2,219,825

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Kreider, Chris $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 6	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1
McGinn, Brock $3,750,000$3,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 4		Poulin, Samuel $863,333$863,333 C, LW RFA - 3
Zohorna, Radim $850,000$850,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 4
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LW UFA - 1	Blueger, Teddy $2,750,000$2,750,000 C, LW UFA - 2
	Caulfield, Judd $925,000$925,000 RW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dumoulin, Brian $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Jarry, Tristan $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 2
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD UFA - 4	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 6	DeSmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000 G UFA - 1
Benn, Jordie $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Friedman, Mark $725,000$725,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Riikola, Juuso $1,150,000$1,150,000 LD UFA - 1	Ruhwedel, Chad $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Angello, Anthony $725,000$725,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, RW UFA - 1
Lafferty, Sam $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW, C, LW UFA - 1

Apr. 20, 2021 at 7:29 p.m.

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Imagine875948

Pens are the best

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Quoting: pharrow

and that's fair, but they need improvements in 5v5 play and McCann isn't giving it to them.
While Zucker's production hasn't been bad at 5v5 play, he's bleeding goals.
You can't blame that on Malkin either because he isn't. Malkin didn't take off till given a real RW. Which means Zucker and him weren't able to get it done.

If they don't win this year expect turn over. You swap McCann and Zucker here for Kreider and McGinn. The team gets a little better here. Kreider probably plays better here than Zucker. You hope to get more out of McGinn than what you got out of McCann.

Again i disagree

Apr. 20, 2021 at 7:51 p.m.

#27

pharrow

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Quoting: Imagine875948

Again i disagree

that's ok you can disagree.
But you also have to come to terms that in 5v5 play McCann has given them 4 goals in 32 games.
At some point, liking the player, and the production on the ice aren't matching. Which is what it boils down to when you have to improve the team.

Apr. 21, 2021 at 7:02 a.m.

#28

Imagine875948

Pens are the best

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Quoting: pharrow

Last year are powerplay was the major issue. This year now that McCann is on there it's gotten ALOT better.

Apr. 21, 2021 at 10:02 a.m.

#29

pharrow

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Quoting: Imagine875948

Last year are powerplay was the major issue. This year now that McCann is on there it's gotten ALOT better.

that's great, first sign of a player not making the grade is 5v5 play.
It is what it is. You have to win at 5v5 if you want to win games. The production isn't there.
At some point they have to do better if they want to win.

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