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Created by: evanrodjesus

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 16, 2023

Published: Jun. 16, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

2021 Offseason

Veto the Jared McCann trade

2021 Expansion Draft Protected List
Sidney Crosby (NMC)
Evgeni Malkin (NMC)
Jake Guentzel
Bryan Rust
Jared McCann
Kasperi Kapanen
Teddy Blueger
Kris Letang (NMC)
John Marino
Brian Dumoulin
Tristan Jarry

Seattle Kraken draft Brandon Tanev

2021 NHL Entry Draft
Round 2, Pick 58 - Simon Robertsson instead of Tristan Broz
Round 5, Pick 154 - Jake Martin instead of Isaac Belliveau
Round 7, Pick 194 - Jiri Tichacek instead of Ryan McCleary
Round 7, Pick 215 - Marcus Almquist instead of Daniel Laatsch
Round 7, Pick 218 - Lukas Gustafsson instead of Kirill Tankov

Re-sign Frederick Gaudreau 2 x $1.2M
Veto the Brock McGinn signing

2021-22 Season

Veto the Jeff Carter extension

2022 Offseason

2022 NHL Entry Draft
Round 1, Pick 21 - Brad Lambert instead of Owen Pickering
Round 4, Pick 118 - Vladimir Grudinin instead of Sergei Murashov
Round 5, Pick 150 - Tyler Duke instead of Zam Plante
Round 6, Pick 167 - Alexis Gendron instead of Nolan Collins
Round 6, Pick 182 - Kenta Isogai instead of Luke Devlin
Round 7, Pick 214 - Adam Bares instead of Liam Arnsby

Veto the Kasperi Kapanen extension
Veto the Rutta and Archibald signings
Veto the Matheson and Marino trades
Re-sign Jared McCann and Evan Rodrigues

2022-23 Season

Veto the Blueger, Granlund, and Bonino trades

Trade for Jakub Vrana before St. Louis

2023 Offseason

2023 NHL Entry Draft
Round 1, Pick 14 - Oliver Moore instead of Brayden Yager
Round 2, Pick 46 - Jayden Perron instead of trading it for Mikael Granlund
Round 4, Pick 110 - Alex Ciernik instead of trading it for Ty Smith
Round 5, Pick 142 - Timur Mukhanov instead of Mikhail Ilyin
Round 6, Pick 174 - Griffin Erdman instead of Cooper Foster
Round 7, Pick 206 - Arvid Bergstrom instead of trading it for Nick Bonino
Round 7, Pick 223 - Yegor Klimovich instead of Kalle Kangas

Free Agency

Sign forwards Evan Rodrigues, Michael Bunting, Pius Suter, Denis Malgin, Mason Shaw, and Rudolfs Balcers

Trade for Thatcher Demko

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Smith, Ty	1	$863,333
O'Connor, Drew	2	$950,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	1	$775,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Rodrigues, Evan	3	$3,000,000
Suter, Pius	1	$2,000,000
Bunting, Michael	3	$4,750,000
Shaw, Mason	1	$775,000
Balcers, Rūdolfs	1	$775,000
Malgin, Denis	1	$900,000

Trades

PIT

McCann, Jared

SEA

PIT

TOR

Hållander, Filip [RFA Rights]
2023 7th round pick (TOR)

PIT

Matheson, Michael
2023 4th round pick (PIT)

MTL

Petry, Jeff

PIT

Marino, John

NJD

Smith, Ty
2023 3rd round pick (NJD)

PIT

VGK

2024 3rd round pick (VGK)

PIT

2023 2nd round pick (PIT)

NSH

Granlund, Mikael

PIT

2024 5th round pick (PIT)

SJS

PIT

2023 7th round pick (PIT)

WSH

PIT

Vrána, Jakub

STL

2025 7th round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

To Detroit

10.

PIT

Lambert, Brad

WPG

Pickering, Owen

11.

PIT

Grudinin, Vladimir [Reserve List]
Mukhanov, Timur [Reserve List]
Perron, Jayden [Reserve List]

CAR

Ilyin, Mikhail [Reserve List]
Murashov, Sergei [Reserve List]

12.

PIT

Moore, Oliver [Reserve List]

CHI

Yager, Brayden [Reserve List]

13.

PIT

Ciernik, Alex [Reserve List]
Gendron, Alexis [Reserve List]

PHI

Collins, Nolan [Reserve List]

14.

PIT

Robertsson, Simon [Reserve List]

STL

Broz, Tristan [Reserve List]

15.

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$79,716,842	$0	$0	$3,783,158

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
McCann, Jared $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Vrána, Jakub $2,625,000$2,625,000 LW UFA - 1
Bunting, Michael $4,750,000$4,750,000 LW UFA - 3	Rodrigues, Evan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, C UFA - 4	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
O'Connor, Drew $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 2	Suter, Pius $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Malgin, Denis $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA
Balcers, Rūdolfs $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA	Shaw, Mason $775,000$775,000 LW, C 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	Demko, Thatcher $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 3
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 4	DeSmith, Casey $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1
	Friedman, Mark $775,000$775,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Rutta, Jan $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
		Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:35 p.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 38,932

Likes: 19,960

Flames decline rather easily

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:36 p.m.

Victor24

Joined: Mar. 2023

Posts: 2,813

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Which part of the masterclass is trading for a goalie with one ok to good season and one awful season?

I do like the UFAs

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:37 p.m.

Mario669192

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 13

Likes: 2

Too soft, this team gets run over in the regular season let alone the playoffs. A Dubas masterclass would involve more players with “competitiveness” - POHOKD

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:38 p.m.

Lunatik

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 1,232

Likes: 419

Jun. 16, 2023 at 8:02 p.m.

evanrodjesus

Thread Starter

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 27

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Quoting: Victor24

Which part of the masterclass is trading for a goalie with one ok to good season and one awful season?

I do like the UFAs

Vejmelka just had a great season on an awful Arizona team. I signed Varly cause people forget he’s still capable of being a good started and so they can split time.

Jun. 16, 2023 at 8:03 p.m.

evanrodjesus

Thread Starter

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 27

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Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy

Flames decline rather easily

💀

Jun. 16, 2023 at 9:05 p.m.

Victor24

Joined: Mar. 2023

Posts: 2,813

Likes: 956

Quoting: evanrodjesus

Vejmelka just had a great season on an awful Arizona team. I signed Varly cause people forget he’s still capable of being a good started and so they can split time.

He had a good season.

He was 18th in WAR
30th in Low danger save percentage
18th in medium danger save percentage
44th in high danger save percentage

There were many goalies who were better in all of those numbers were better.
Korpisalso, Kopley, Samsonov were all better and are available for cheaper.

Jun. 16, 2023 at 9:33 p.m.

pensgm

Joined: Feb. 2023

Posts: 572

Likes: 176

Dont think this gets Hanifin

Jun. 19, 2023 at 9:13 a.m.

JSEB93

Joined: May 2022

Posts: 3,421

Likes: 1,025

Quoting: evanrodjesus

Vejmelka just had a great season on an awful Arizona team. I signed Varly cause people forget he’s still capable of being a good started and so they can split time.

Nobody with an .899 save % is allowed to be classified as having a great season. Doesn't matter the team in front of them.

You're better off keeping Desmith. Cheaper, better, and doesn't cost assets. I have no issues with Varlamov though

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