A more careful approach

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Created by: markykins1

Team: 2022-23 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 20, 2022

Published: Jun. 20, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Eller on 4th line LW worked nice for a game and he stays with the Caps at least until the trade deadline. This gives McM the chance to solidify his spot in the lineup. Hershey Caps for most of the year as Snively gets a big chance in the top 6 and AJF wins 13th forward. 6.9 million of cap room is only 1.8 million once Wilson is activated. Caps wimp out with no vet goaltender since whoever they brought in might be average and overpaid. They pick VV as starter but get young upstart in Comrie who could surprise...or not. Young prospect LucaJo gets the start at 3LD for the year with vet Irwin as fill in. They can do upgrades at the TDL if they are playoff bound again. If Backstrom comes back in Oct of '23 you can make moves to make it work. Short sighted management teams that are well over the cap find ways to get bailed out every year it seems. The Caps would be no exception.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Vanecek, Vitek	1	$2,000,000
Samsonov, Ilya	1	$3,000,000
Johansen, Lucas	2	$850,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Irwin, Matt	1	$850,000
Comrie, Eric	1	$1,000,000
Strome, Ryan	5	$5,750,000

Trades

WSH

Asplund, Rasmus

BUF

Samsonov, Ilya

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
21	$82,500,000	$63,186,667	$100,000	$0	$19,313,333

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	Strome, Ryan $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW, C UFA - 5	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	Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1
Eller, Lars $2,415,000$2,415,000 C 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
Johansen, Lucas $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 2	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 1	Vanecek, Vitek $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 3
Irwin, Matt $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1		Comrie, Eric $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Hagelin, Carl $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW UFA - 1	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C NMC UFA - 3
	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 2

What back to Caps in Sammy trade to Buffalo that's fair?

Jun. 20, 2022 at 11:55 a.m.

Stadel

Joined: Jun. 2015

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would rather keep asplund

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Jun. 20, 2022 at 12:13 p.m.

Sabres_Insider

Joined: Mar. 2021

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Massive sabres decline lol

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Jun. 20, 2022 at 1:44 p.m.

qc14

Joined: Sep. 2020

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This would be really disappointing and a worse team than last year

Jun. 20, 2022 at 2:06 p.m.

markykins1

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twentyeighteen

Joined: Feb. 2017

Posts: 1,269

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Quoting: qc14

This would be really disappointing and a worse team than last year

I saw this as a 'hedging your bets' attempt where you can try for the playoffs again while continuing the development of the young players that are coming now. It's risky I know and could get Bmac fired but there are many many options on how they could approach this season. For instance, they could, and I hope, try for a better FA than Strome but this is what they could end up with if either Kadri or Trocheck sign elsewhere. Also, this FA class of goalies is really not that impressive and for instance while someone like Keumper is in the SCF, his team is so loaded that how much better would he make the Caps than VV? A few more wins? Perhaps...

Jun. 20, 2022 at 3:24 p.m.

qc14

Joined: Sep. 2020

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Quoting: markykins1

I'm all for getting young guys more minutes but the only young guys in this are McMichael, Snively, and Johansen. I also feel like Ovi, Kuzy, Carlson aren't getting any younger so you don't really have the time to hedge

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