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Created by: staytru20

Team: 2022-23 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 1, 2022

Published: Jun. 1, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Assumptions:

- Backstrom is out for the season, if not longer. Could be a LTIRetiree
- Wilson will be out until January
- Hagelin's eye injury was career ending.

About:

- Protas/Snively holds down a spot on the wing until Wilson comes back.
- Varlamov might be the right mentor for his fellow russian Ilya Samsonov. Regardless, the Caps should find a new goalie coach, IMO.
- Scheifele wants out and I've seen Iorio + 1st for him on this site a couple of times. The bones of the package make sense, and the Caps can absorb his entire salary.

Question Marks:

Tarik El-Bashir from The Athletic seems to think that both Lucas Johansen and Alex Alexeyev will get a shot at 3LD. There is a possibility that the Caps go after a mid-20s veteran for that spot next to TvR, or potentially another right shot defenseman that can take some PP minutes from Carlson.

The middle six is really young outside of Scheifele and Mantha while Wilson is out. Snively was effective when he was healthy, but he's basically a Sheary clone

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Samsonov, Ilya	1	$2,250,000
Johansen, Lucas	1	$775,000
Leason, Brett	1	$900,000

Trades

WSH

2023 3rd round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

Think the value will be a late third for Eller. He's coming off a rather tough year, but he's been effective historically.

SEA

Eller, Lars

Additional Details:

Really, any team that wants a 3C. Doesn't have to be Seattle.

WSH

Scheifele, Mark

Additional Details:

Caps get a solid offensive center back to fill the void created by Backstrom.

WPG

Iorio, Vincent
2023 1st round pick (WSH)

Additional Details:

I'd be surprised if the Jets got both the Caps #1 RD prospect AND the 2022 1st.

WSH

Varlamov, Semyon

NYI

Vanecek, Vitek [RFA Rights]
2022 2nd round pick (WPG)

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
23	$82,500,000	$59,782,500	$100,000	$82,500	$22,717,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4	Kuznetsov, Evgeny $3,900,000$3,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Snively, Joe $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 2	Scheifele, Mark $6,125,000$6,125,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Mantha, Anthony $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Sheary, Conor $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	McMichael, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 2	Protas, Aliaksei $789,167$789,167 ($82,500$82K) RW, LW, C UFA - 2
Jonsson-Fjällby, Axel $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 1	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 3	Hathaway, Garnet $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $791,667$791,667 LD/RD RFA - 1	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4
Orlov, Dmitry $1,275,000$1,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Jensen, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 1
Alexeyev, Alexander $863,333$863,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 1	Varlamov, Semyon $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
		Samsonov, Ilya $2,250,000$2,250,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Johansen, Lucas $775,000$775,000 LD UFA - 2		Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C NMC UFA - 3
Sgarbossa, Michael $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1		Hagelin, Carl $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW UFA - 1
Leason, Brett $900,000$900,000 RW RFA - 2		Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 2

Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:18 p.m.

dickie_boon

yotes own canada

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id be down for schiefele

Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:20 p.m.

Not_Isles5513

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After last night I think isles can get more for Varly lol. Is Alexeyev any good? Isles need a lefty d man and he could speak Russian with Soroky.

Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:21 p.m.

Not_Isles5513

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Quoting: dickie_boon

id be down for schiefele

He’s a head case and I wouldn’t want him in the room if I was a capitals fan.

Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:21 p.m.

Windjammer

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There's probably enough there to at least get the Jets talking.

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Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:38 p.m.

staytru20

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Isles5513

After last night I think isles can get more for Varly lol. Is Alexeyev any good? Isles need a lefty d man and he could speak Russian with Soroky.

he's likely the Caps' best LD prospect currently now that Fehervary graduated to full NHL time. Johansen could be trade bait though.

Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:41 p.m.

staytru20

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2018

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Quoting: Isles5513

He’s a head case and I wouldn’t want him in the room if I was a capitals fan.

I think the core group of vets are guys that could help influence Scheifele in the positive direction if that were true

Jun. 1, 2022 at 2:37 p.m.

qc14

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I think this is fair value for scheifle but I also think both that NHL GM's will pay more for him than I would and that he is not the right kind of center the caps should go after. Even when Wilson comes back 7 mil is a lot of space that they should spend on somebody if backstrom and hags really are done.

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