Rebuild while keeping the big three for sentimental reasons

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Created by: andrt

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 19, 2023

Published: May 8, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Sell everyone not named Crosby, Malkin, or Letang that has any value.
A couple players have a no movement clause which they probably won't waive, but in this scenario they do.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Poehling, Ryan	3	$1,000,000
Lindberg, Filip	3	$900,000
Smith, Ty	2	$1,000,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$850,000
Gruden, Jonathan	1	$800,000
Nylander, Alexander	1	$775,000
O'Connor, Drew	2	$950,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bonino, Nick	2	$1,000,000
Dumoulin, Brian	3	$2,500,000
Archibald, Josh	1	$850,000
Raanta, Antti	2	$2,500,000

Trades

PIT

Knies, Matthew
2023 5th round pick (TOR)

TOR

Rust, Bryan ($1,125,000 retained)

PIT

Kostin, Klim [RFA Rights]
2023 2nd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Petry, Jeff ($2,250,000 retained)
2023 5th round pick (TOR)

PIT

Bichsel, Lian
Johnston, Wyatt
2023 2nd round pick (DAL)
2024 3rd round pick (DAL)

DAL

Guentzel, Jake ($2,000,000 retained)

PIT

Girard, Samuel

COL

Pettersson, Marcus ($2,000,000 retained)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Bryan Rust: $1,125,000 (21.95%)
Jeff Petry: $2,250,000 (96%)
Jake Guentzel: $2,000,000 (44.44%)
Marcus Pettersson: $2,000,000 (49.69%)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$82,500,000	$65,660,834	$0	$0	$16,839,166

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Knies, Matthew $925,000$925,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	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
Archibald, Josh $850,000$850,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 2	Johnston, Wyatt $894,167$894,167 C RFA - 2	Granlund, Mikael $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, RW UFA - 2
Poehling, Ryan $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Bonino, Nick $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	DeSmith, Casey $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Rutta, Jan $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Raanta, Antti $2,500,000$2,500,000 G UFA - 1
Dumoulin, Brian $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1
	Friedman, Mark $775,000$775,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Malkin, E.		Crosby, S.		Rakell, R.
	Girard, S.		Letang, K.

Power Play 2
Knies, M.		Johnston, W.		Granlund, M.
	Joseph, P.		Ruhwedel, C.

Penalty Kill 1
	Bonino, N.	Archibald, J.
	Dumoulin, B.	Ruhwedel, C.

Penalty Kill 2
	O'Connor, D.	Johnston, W.
	Girard, S.	Rutta, J.

May 8, 2023 at 8:52 p.m.

MoSeider53

Future Norris guy

Joined: Aug. 2022

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Neither Petry or Rust are waiving to play in Canada, And Rust sure as hell isn't returning Knies.

May 8, 2023 at 8:54 p.m.

HulkVader

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 1,305

Likes: 373

Brutal.

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May 8, 2023 at 9:18 p.m.

brgh4life

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 2,705

Likes: 994

You can't retain on 4 contracts. Also, man, these are brutal for all teams invovled.

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May 9, 2023 at 9:36 a.m.

TJTwolf

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 9,739

Likes: 4,634

No room for sentiment if you want to win. Go big or go home. None of those teams would be interested btw.

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