Aggressive Offseason

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Created by: pens1991

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 19, 2023

Published: Jan. 19, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

**Cap is supposed to go up $1 million hence my adjustment**

Completely retooling the bottom 6. I'm not sure what it would take to move Petry, but as someone that goes to a decent chunk of Kraken games, they need a strong defenseman that can anchor that Defense, and they have a lot of Center depth. With Beniers becoming their young star, and Wright in the wings i would assume he comes up full time next season.

I do think Kapanen just needs to be in the right fit and feel like Calgary could be it, they're a fast strong team and he may be able to slot in nicely there (maybe i'm wrong though).

carter was a buyout, that's just gotta go, i'd rather take the cap hit.

I think zucker would take 500k less to stay, and i think Jarry is going to want somewhere between 5-6 Million per year.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hållander, Filip	2	$850,000
Nylander, Alexander	1	$900,000
O'Connor, Drew	1	$900,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	1	$900,000
Smith, Ty	2	$1,250,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Jarry, Tristan	5	$5,250,000
Zucker, Jason	3	$5,000,000
Mikkola, Niko	3	$2,250,000
Engvall, Pierre	3	$2,500,000
Domi, Max	4	$4,000,000
Gaudreau, Frédérick	2	$1,950,000

Trades

PIT

Wennberg, Alexander

SEA

Légaré, Nathan
Petry, Jeff
2023 5th round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

Seattle needs a top Dman and have 4 UFA/RFA dman next year. This also gives them room to put wright into the lineup at Center, not to mention they have multiple options for center.

PIT

2023 6th round pick (CGY)

CGY

Kapanen, Kasperi

Additional Details:

Lucic is a UFA and i can't imagine they'd bring him back, Kap add further speed and could slot into the third line.

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667
Jeff Carter: $3,125,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$79,666,842	$0	$0	$3,833,158

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Zucker, Jason $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Domi, Max $4,000,000$4,000,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Wennberg, Alexander $2,250,000$2,250,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Engvall, Pierre $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
O'Connor, Drew $900,000$900,000 LW UFA - 2		McGinn, Brock $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Puustinen, Valtteri $900,000$900,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Gaudreau, Frédérick $1,950,000$1,950,000 C, LW UFA - 5	Nylander, Alexander $900,000$900,000 RW, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Jarry, Tristan $5,250,000$5,250,000 G UFA - 5
	Rutta, Jan $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	DeSmith, Casey $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Smith, Ty $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
Mikkola, Niko $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD UFA - 3	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1

Jan. 19, 2023 at 2:38 p.m.

gpmack95

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Zucker either gets Nino N deal in NSH, a little more, or can go. 3.85-4.5 is the range I’d give.

Jan. 19, 2023 at 2:54 p.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

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Calgary can't afford Kapanen and have no interest in him to begin with

Jan. 19, 2023 at 3:11 p.m.

Imagine874859

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Pass on the Seattle deal. I'd rather keep him than sign Mikkola

Jan. 19, 2023 at 3:41 p.m.

pens1991

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pens1991

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Quoting: Imagine874859

Pass on the Seattle deal. I'd rather keep him than sign Mikkola

Why? Very curious.

Jan. 19, 2023 at 4:16 p.m.

Imagine874859

Pens are better

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Quoting: pens1991

Why? Very curious.

Petry was doing well for us before he got injured. Theres better guys in FA to sign as a 3c.

Jan. 19, 2023 at 4:32 p.m.

pens1991

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pens1991

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Quoting: Imagine874859

Petry was doing well for us before he got injured. Theres better guys in FA to sign as a 3c.

Horvat will be unattainable by the pens, Larkin will most likely stay in DET, if he doesn't again out of the pens league. Domi is an option (which i still signed to play LW). Compher and Barbashev aren't bad options, but i kind of assume Compher stays with the Avs and barbashev will get a bigger offer from someone else. Some decent RFA center options, but i assume most stay with current team (Dubois, Cozens, Zegras, Chytil, Steel, Frost) Strome and Geekie could be interesting but think they could both either stay with current team or get larger offers elsewhere

Jan. 19, 2023 at 6:48 p.m.

Treize131

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Kapanen is an interesting thought.

Given this is a 23/24 trade I would be inclined to consider it if there was some salary retained; just to ease the caphit costs, could even find a 3rd party if needed.

Lucic may come back on a league minimum, he's found a solid leadership role here, but he may retire soon.

Over the next 2 years, apart from moving core players, these are the kinds of deals the Flames will be limited to given how close we are to the ceiling.

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