Realistic Offseason Perhaps

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Created by: capsfan26

Team: 2021-22 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 23, 2021

Published: Jul. 23, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

This is the most basic, vanilla option I can think of when it comes to the Capitals offseason. They trades are to unload salary and the one signing from outside the roster is a bottom-pair defenseman (so it could be anyone that fits that mold). Definitely not exciting, but probably the most realistic option.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Samsonov, Ilya		2	$2,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Ovechkin, Alex		4	$10,000,000
Forbort, Derek		1	$1,500,000

Trades

WSH

2022 6th round pick (VAN)

VAN

Dillon, Brenden

Additional Details:

The Capitals are in a salary cap crunch and other teams know it. The Capitals won't get much value in return for shedding multiple contracts. That said, the Capitals are trading top-four, steady defensemen so they won't have to pay another team to take the salaries.

WSH

2022 5th round pick (CGY)

CGY

Schultz, Justin

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$68,321,261	$472,927	$132,500	$13,178,739

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $10,000,000$10,000,000 LW UFA - 5	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Sprong, Daniel $725,000$725,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Kuznetsov, Evgeny $3,900,000$3,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 4	Mantha, Anthony $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
	Eller, Lars $2,415,000$2,415,000 C UFA - 2	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 4
Sheary, Conor $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Dowd, Nic $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Hathaway, Garnet $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Hagelin, Carl $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Orlov, Dmitry $1,275,000$1,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 5	Samsonov, Ilya $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 1
Fehérváry, Martin $791,667$791,667 ($132,500$132K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Jensen, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Copley, Pheonix $1,100,000$1,100,000 G UFA - 1
Forbort, Derek $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 3
	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kempný, Michal $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 1
Pinho, Brian $725,000$725,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Oshie, T.		Bäckström, N.		Wilson, T.
	Ovechkin, A.		Carlson, J.

Power Play 2
Sprong, D.		Kuznetsov, E.		Mantha, A.
	Ovechkin, A.		Orlov, D.

Penalty Kill 1
	Dowd, N.	Hagelin, C.
	Forbort, D.	Jensen, N.

Penalty Kill 2
	Eller, L.	Hathaway, G.
	Orlov, D.	van Riemsdyk, T.

Jul. 23, 2021 at 10:27 a.m.

Kylonetic8

Typical Caps Fan

Joined: Oct. 2018

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It's probably a 4th straight first round exit then. I mean that's what I expect anyway with this old core now, without massive shakeups.

Jul. 23, 2021 at 12:03 p.m.

capsfan26

Thread Starter

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 33

Likes: 5

Quoting: Kylonetic8

It's probably a 4th straight first round exit then. I mean that's what I expect anyway with this old core now, without massive shakeups.

I completely agree. It is probably a playoff team and a first-round exit. I'm trying to reset by expectations to simply making the playoffs and Ovi scoring a lot of goals along the way. Any wins in the playoffs would be a bonus and a surprise. At least for the next three to four years. Then the fun of a complete rebuild (with a ton of cap space) becomes exciting.

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Jul. 23, 2021 at 1:59 p.m.

PeterForsberg21

Joined: Jan. 2021

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

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