The difficulty of improving the team while also not spending too many futures

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Created by: edeangel84

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 4, 2023

Published: Jun. 4, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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In order to build up on futures that we desperately need and make the team deeper, a difficult decision has to be made, keep a fab favorite and hope you also can resign him, or try to find the best deal for him. I think Dubas has the guts to listen to offers on Jake. I do not expect him to be anywhere but Pittsburgh next season BUT if he were moved it would need to include a first round pick and some young players who can play right now. Columbus might be the team willing to jump in on a big time point producer like Jake is and they may even feel confident in resigning him given they shocked many people by inking Johnny Hockey. It’s clear they don’t see a rebuild and they expect to be in the playoff hunt or they wouldn’t have made an off the wall hire for a veteran coach.

In the second trade, we can use our cap space to take Bailey and a 2nd rounder from the Isles. They’ll need to find a replacement for Mayfield given he’s going to have a lot of suitors on the open market. Rutta is priced reasonably and isn’t a bad fit for that team. Poulin is insurance to make sure they get some kind of “future” in the deal. Holmstrom is an underrated cheap forward we can use for depth. The trade is basically Rutta and Poulin for Holmstrom. The 2nd is to dump Bailey.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bjork, Marcus	3	$1,250,000
O'Connor, Drew	3	$855,000
Poehling, Ryan	3	$875,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Sundqvist, Oskar	4	$2,750,000
Suter, Pius	2	$2,550,000
Graves, Ryan	5	$5,500,000
Andersen, Frederik	3	$4,250,000
Hinostroza, Vinnie	2	$925,000
Holl, Justin	3	$2,550,000

Trades

PIT

Bemström, Emil
Bjork, Marcus [RFA Rights]
Marchenko, Kirill
2023 1st round pick (LAK)
2024 3rd round pick (CBJ)

CBJ

Guentzel, Jake ($2,000,000 retained)
Puustinen, Valtteri [RFA Rights]
Smith, Ty [RFA Rights]

PIT

Bailey, Josh
Holmström, Simon
2024 2nd round pick (NYI)

NYI

Additional Details:

Replaces Mayfield who’s lost as a UFA.

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake Guentzel: $2,000,000 (44.44%)

Buried

Josh Bailey: $3,850,000 ($5,000,000)
Mikael Granlund: $3,850,000 ($5,000,000)

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	$78,728,925	$0	$850,000	$4,771,075

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Marchenko, Kirill $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RW RFA - 1
Suter, Pius $2,550,000$2,550,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Sundqvist, Oskar $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Bemström, Emil $900,000$900,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Poehling, Ryan $875,000$875,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1	Hinostroza, Vinnie $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD UFA - 6	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Andersen, Frederik $4,250,000$4,250,000 G UFA - 2
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Petry, Jeff $2,343,750$2,343,750 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	DeSmith, Casey $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Holl, Justin $2,550,000$2,550,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bjork, Marcus $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD RFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $855,000$855,000 LW UFA - 2
Holmström, Simon $863,333$863,333 RW RFA - 1

Jun. 4, 2023 at 7:37 p.m.

#26

edeangel84

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JimmyPaek

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Quoting: draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

Delusional if you think Dubas has an easier start up with the Pens than what he was gifted from day 1 on the Leafs.

He has an old team… but it’s a time of winners. When has he ever had real leaders to work with? The Leafs didn’t fail because of Dubas. The Leafs failed because your star players are overrated.

Jun. 4, 2023 at 7:45 p.m.

#27

draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

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Quoting: edeangel84

He has an old team… but it’s a time of winners. When has he ever had real leaders to work with? The Leafs didn’t fail because of Dubas. The Leafs failed because your star players are overrated.

The Pens are in rebuild mode, they hired Dubas thinking he is a boy genius with crafty trades and good Draft selections,

Sorry to say, your team misses the playoffs.

Jun. 4, 2023 at 7:46 p.m.

#28

edeangel84

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JimmyPaek

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Quoting: draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

The Pens are in rebuild mode, they hired Dubas thinking he is a boy genius with crafty trades and good Draft selections,

Sorry to say, your team misses the playoffs.

Lol no they aren’t rebuilding as long as Crosby is still playing out of his mind.

Jun. 4, 2023 at 7:52 p.m.

#29

draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

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Quoting: edeangel84

Lol no they aren’t rebuilding as long as Crosby is still playing out of his mind.

Than they have reached the worse team development stage....

Playoff pretender.

Cup contender.
Playoff contender.
Playoff pretender.
Rebuild mode.
Desfunctional mode.

Jun. 4, 2023 at 8:15 p.m.

#30

edeangel84

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JimmyPaek

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Quoting: draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

Than they have reached the worse team development stage....

Playoff pretender.

Cup contender.
Playoff contender.
Playoff pretender.
Rebuild mode.
Desfunctional mode.

As long as 87 keeps playing like this we will not rebuild. That has been made incredibly clear and was made clear at the press conference this week. We will have a rebuild in 2-3 years.

Jun. 4, 2023 at 11:21 p.m.

#31

Nightowl26

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Isles decline. Not moving a 2nd and Holmstrom for basically Rutta....

Isles need to keep whatever little young players we have. Bailey will spend his last year in the minors. We cannot and will not trade anymore draft capital because of 1 yr of Bailey.

Jun. 5, 2023 at 5:47 a.m.

#32

Isles10

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Isles decline.

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