Trading Guentzel to Set Up A Rebuild Offseason

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Created by: Arom5477

Team: 2021-22 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 21, 2021

Published: Jun. 21, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

With this roster, we're still set up for a long run in the playoffs with a deep roster; However, with a lot of the contracts being up after the season allows us to take a hard look after the season with $54MM in cap space to decide: Do we keep going? Or, do we shut it down and rebuild? Also, if for some reason the team doesn't pan out, there are a lot of players on this roster that could garner high draft picks come trade deadline time.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Fabbro, Dante	1	$1,250,000
Aston-Reese, Zach	1	$1,500,000
Blueger, Teddy	1	$1,875,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Gaudreau, Frédérick	1	$875,000
Rinne, Pekka	1	$2,500,000
Landeskog, Gabriel	1	$8,000,000

Trades

PIT

SEA

Matheson, Michael

PIT

Fabbro, Dante [RFA Rights]
Forsberg, Filip
2022 2nd round pick (NSH)

Additional Details:

Conditional 2022 2nd round pick becomes a 2022 1st round pick if Guentzel scores 40+ goals -or- NSH makes it to the Western Conference Finals.

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Similar to the Hornqvist trade at the start of GMJR's tenure: Traded the superior point-getter in James Neal, but got a new identity player in Hornqvist.

Same thing here: Trading the elite point getter, but small, Guentzel for a bigger, grittier Forsberg. Fabbro and the pick even up the deal due to Forsberg being UFA and Guentzel being young and having term.

Also, this sets up a lot freed cap space after the season to make the dreaded rebuild decision.

NSH

Guentzel, Jake

PIT

2021 2nd round pick (BOS)

BUF

Jarry, Tristan

PIT

2021 2nd round pick (VAN)

VAN

Zucker, Jason

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $1,166,667

Buried

Juuso Riikola: $25,000 ($1,150,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$81,394,872	$0	$212,500	$105,128

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $8,000,000$8,000,000 LW, C UFA - 8	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Forsberg, Filip $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW UFA - 1
McCann, Jared $2,940,000$2,940,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 4	Carter, Jeff $2,636,364$2,636,364 RW, C UFA - 1	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1
	Blueger, Teddy $1,875,000$1,875,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Gaudreau, Frédérick $875,000$875,000 C, LW UFA - 2
Aston-Reese, Zach $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

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	Rinne, Pekka $2,500,000$2,500,000 G UFA
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
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $863,333$863,333 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 1	Fabbro, Dante $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Poulin, Samuel $863,333$863,333 C, LW RFA - 3
Friedman, Mark $725,000$725,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Ruhwedel, Chad $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1

Jun. 21, 2021 at 12:31 p.m.

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Mr_Gardoki

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Quoting: KDow88

Love how all you Pens fans are ready to jump off the Jarry bandwagon soooo quickly... He struggled at the beginning of the season and in playoffs but the in between he was sorting it out, and you're all quick to forget how good he was last season pre-pandemic... Kid is still young on a team friendly deal and will be coming back with a purpose next season, while coming into his prime years.. Settle down Pens fans, you're gonna be fine, tweaks here and there and the team still has a window to winning(a lot longer than Washington's that's for sure!!!)...

Just to provide some context, at least from some of us Pens fans, we don't all think Jarry is bad. From my viewpoint while he's not young, he's still early in his NHL development and shows all the ability to be a true #1. This was his first season as a starter, so growing pains are expected. The issue is timing. The Sid/Geno window is closing fast and some would argue it's already closed, so we don't necessarily have time to wait out Jarry's development and need a proven starter now.

Jun. 21, 2021 at 1:27 p.m.

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Arom5477

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Quoting: KDow88

In all honesty, we just miss Fleury. He's the ex-girlfriend we want back but is already dating someone else.

Jun. 21, 2021 at 1:34 p.m.

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josi4norris

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Quoting: Mr_Gardoki

Very incorrect assessment on Jake being an accessory type player. Jake is a top ten winger in this league.

Top 10?

Jun. 21, 2021 at 1:41 p.m.

#29

Mr_Gardoki

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Quoting: josi4norris

Top 10?

He's been a point per game player across his last three seasons. How many wingers in the NHL do that?

Jun. 21, 2021 at 1:47 p.m.

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josi4norris

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Quoting: Mr_Gardoki

He's been a point per game player across his last three seasons. How many wingers in the NHL do that?

I'm not saying he's not good. He's a very good player. I got to see plenty of him in the SCF in 2017 lol. I'm just saying that I think it might be too soon to call him a top 10 winger when there are guys like Kucherov, Marchand, Pastrnak, Panarin, Kane, Stone, Rantanen, Marner, Huberdeau, Ovechkin, etc. Again, he's a great player, but I don't think you're getting a young top 4 defenseman, a top 6 forward, a team's top forward prospect, and a 1st round pick for him.

Jun. 21, 2021 at 1:49 p.m.

#31

Mr_Gardoki

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Quoting: josi4norris

He's sniffing them for sure. Plus, how many do what he does for $6M?

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Jun. 21, 2021 at 3:32 p.m.

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PeterForsberg21

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VAN decline, they don't have the cap space.

Jun. 22, 2021 at 3:18 a.m.

#33

josi4norris

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Quoting: Mr_Gardoki

He's sniffing them for sure. Plus, how many do what he does for $6M?

The contract is great. What's up with all the Guentzel trades recently? I'm not sure why Pens fans want him moved. I know he didn't play great in the playoffs, but he had a fantastic year.

Jun. 22, 2021 at 9:11 a.m.

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Mr_Gardoki

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Quoting: josi4norris

The contract is great. What's up with all the Guentzel trades recently? I'm not sure why Pens fans want him moved. I know he didn't play great in the playoffs, but he had a fantastic year.

Unfortunately not all fans of every team are that bright lol. It's highly unlikely Jake gets moved, but some Pens fans are in the Hextall camp and want the Pens to get bigger and stronger, and look, there's nothing wrong that per-se, but IMO you don't move Jake to make that happen.

On a side note, we really don't know how Hextall and Burke value every player. They may look to revamp this team in their image.

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