Tee up the future

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Created by: Random_internet_guy_1967

Team: 2023-24 Seattle Kraken

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 28, 2023

Published: Apr. 28, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

The plan with this team is to let Evans and Wright start off in limited roles, but hopefully both can work their way into the lineup. My expectations are that Wright can end the season on the 2nd line and Evans on the 3rd pairing as a valuable pp2 contributor. Also I hope Kartye can establish himself as NHL caliber, if not then that sucks, but I have faith in him. The trades are all less about making the team better right now and more about opening up roster spots to aid in the development of players for the near future, as well as unloading some less valuable contracts. I know teams are only able to retain a limited number of contracts but both retained here go away next year, so that won't be a problem. Moves I was planning on making included moving Wennberg or Geekie if Wright is able to play 2C by trade deadline as well as trying to land a blockbuster for Carter sHart but I decided against them because it would be way to situational and unlikely.

To summarize, I got bored and threw this together for fun, Bad contracts and replaceable players are replaced, young guys get a chance, important players are signed and important players who'll need to be signed in the near future can be paid for.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Firkus, Jagger		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Borgen, William	2	$2,200,000
Sprong, Daniel	2	$2,200,000
Lind, Kole	2	$1,000,000
Dunn, Vince	6	$6,600,000
Daccord, Joey	3	$950,000
Fleury, Cale	2	$1,000,000
Geekie, Morgan	3	$1,650,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Olofsson, Gustav	2	$775,000
Nedeljkovic, Alex	1	$2,250,000
Clifton, Connor	3	$3,125,000
Gustafsson, Erik	1	$800,000
Hayden, John	1	$775,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Ritchie, Calum		3	$950,000

Trades

SEA

2023 5th round pick (DAL)
2024 3rd round pick (DAL)

Additional Details:

Draft picks to further fill the already pretty good prospect pool, mostly to open the roster spot for Clifton. Retention isn't a problem as its an expiring deal.

DAL

Schultz, Justin ($1,500,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Bottom pairing offensive defenseman who can support the pp2 and for only 1.5 x 1yr that's hard to pass on. Other teams could also be landing spots for this type of contract, I just chose Dallas because they were the first team I thought of.

SEA

Salomonsson, Elias

Additional Details:

I'm not quite sure how valuable Salomonsson actually is, I just remember him being good in my franchise sim and for being a relatively high draft pick (55th overall), and after noticing that Seattle has very few defensemen prospects I put 2 and 2 together.

WPG

Driedger, Chris ($1,750,000 retained)
2023 5th round pick (SEA)
2024 3rd round pick (SEA)

Additional Details:

Again, not sure of Salomonsson's trade value, but I'd rather experiment again with the second goalie slot and get value out of a Driedger trade. Winnipeg gets their new backup goalie at under 2 mil and who's shown flashes of serviceable goaltending the past few years. also isn't too old at 28 so resigning him isn't out of the question.

SEA

Ersson, Samuel
2024 5th round pick (LAK)

Additional Details:

Seattle gets another AHL goalie who can potentially be backup caliber if Nedeljkovic flops and gets stuck in the AHL by the end of the season, but the plan is for him to be a 3rd stringer alongside Daccord with a chance of stepping up into a full time NHL level goalie

PHI

Schwartz, Jaden
2023 2nd round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

Schwartz is a good player, a middle 6 scoring winger who isn't a liability defensively, but long term his age and contract do not fit this team. Beniers, Tolvanen, and Eberle are all on expiring deals next year, and ignoring the contracts signed in this ACGM roster, everyone other than Mccann and Grubauer are on deals that expire while Schwartz is on contract. I'd even be willing to retain a small portion of the contract to get rid of it but I think this trade wouldn't require it. Philly doesn't seem like the right team to receive a guy like Schwartz at first, but the team is similar to Columbus in that they believe they're capable of being a good team if healthy and want to conservatively buy (which I disagree with personally but whatever). If Philly is completely healthy and trying to be good, Schwartz would be a very good 3rd line winger for the team. If the contract is still too awful, get a 3rd team to help retain and send them a pick.

Retained Salary Transactions

Justin Schultz: $1,500,000 (50%)
Chris Driedger: $1,750,000 (50%)

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Joey Daccord: $0 ($950,000)

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
22	$83,500,000	$74,044,076	$129,910	$4,970,000	$9,455,924

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
McCann, Jared $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Beniers, Matthew $897,500$897,500 ($1,850,000$2M) C RFA - 1	Eberle, Jordan $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Kartye, Tye $859,167$859,167 ($57,500$58K) LW, C RFA - 2	Wennberg, Alexander $2,250,000$2,250,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Burakovsky, André $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Tolvanen, Eeli $1,450,000$1,450,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Gourde, Yanni $5,166,666$5,166,666 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bjorkstrand, Oliver $5,400,000$5,400,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Wright, Shane $918,333$918,333 ($3,062,500$3M) C RFA - 3	Sprong, Daniel $2,200,000$2,200,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dunn, Vince $6,600,000$6,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Larsson, Adam $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Grubauer, Philipp $5,900,000$5,900,000 G NTC UFA - 4
Oleksiak, Jamie $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 3	Borgen, William $2,200,000$2,200,000 RD UFA - 2	Nedeljkovic, Alex $2,250,000$2,250,000 G UFA - 1
Evans, Ryker $897,500$897,500 LD RFA - 2	Clifton, Connor $3,125,000$3,125,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Geekie, Morgan $1,650,000$1,650,000 C, RW RFA - 2
Gustafsson, Erik $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1

Apr. 28, 2023 at 8:11 p.m.

leafs101

Joined: May 2019

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Starting Wright on the 4th line is setting him up for failure. Put him centering Gourde and Bjorkstrand on line 3. Can lean into Gourde's center experiences, maybe play his wing some where needed or have him take some draws, etc, and allows Wright enough minutes and strong enough linemates to get going in the NHL.

Apr. 28, 2023 at 8:32 p.m.

Howie

Joined: Jan. 2022

Posts: 3,984

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Jets aren't giving up their best rhd prospect for that they decline

Apr. 29, 2023 at 10:56 a.m.

Gunmars

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 306

Likes: 115

Ersson isn't going anywhere. Flyers aren't trying to be good, they are entering a rebuild. They want to shed cap if possible and bring in young players, not trade them away.

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Apr. 29, 2023 at 1:25 p.m.

SlevinKalevra

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 5,286

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Don’t need Schultz. Just gave up a first round pick for Nils Lundqvist for the same type of role. Need him to improve his play without the puck and take a lineup spot

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