Pens get EK Chicago Helps Out

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Created by: boilermaker

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 5, 2023

Published: Jul. 5, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Trades

PIT

Karlsson, Erik ($3,500,000 retained)

SJS

Granlund, Mikael
Pickering, Owen
2024 1st round pick (PIT)
2025 3rd round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

Pickering could be replaced with Poulin or Pierre-Oliver

PIT

Blackwell, Colin

Additional Details:

Petry provides an RD option for Chicago if they decide to bury Zaitsev in the AHL this season.

Chicago receives 2 2nd round picks to help with their rebuild or be packaged with their other numerous picks to move up in a round.

Moving Blackwell now instead of at the TDL frees up a spot in Chicago's congested forward group.

CHI

Petry, Jeff
2024 2nd round pick (PIT)
2025 2nd round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

Blackwell replaces Granlund in the lineup at a cap savings of 3.8M. Blackwell would probaby be moved at the TDL for a 3rd or 4th round pick, so PIT upgrades that to a 2nd and adds another 2nd to dump 2 years of Petry's cap hit.

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$79,966,842	$0	$0	$3,533,158

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	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1	Blackwell, Colin $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 6	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Karlsson, Erik $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	DeSmith, Casey $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Rutta, Jan $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1

Jul. 5, 2023 at 5:48 p.m.

pens1991

Joined: Jul. 2022

Posts: 2,932

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Nah, Colin Blackwell does not make this team better.

This is why i'm not super interested in moving for Karlsson, his cap constraint doesn't allow the pens improved the bottom 6 (unless they get a third team to retain).

Focus on moving Granlund/Rutta/Desmith and they can improve the bottom six with that relief, and add a 3rd pair Dman.

Jul. 5, 2023 at 6:01 p.m.

boilermaker

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 221

Likes: 238

Fair enough. Just wanted to give you a cheap veteran forward to fill out your lineup and since you would still be tight against the cap with the Karlsson trade,

I also think it will be diffiicult to ask any third team to retain a substantial amount of EK's cap hit for 4 years. So I figured by moving Granlund and Petry you'd get about the same cap savings if a 3rd party retention were done. Honestly San Jose could and should retain more than the $3M I showed.

Jul. 5, 2023 at 6:10 p.m.

Garak

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 10,834

Likes: 10,609

Petry would be a better vet to play with the youngins than Zaitsev. That's for sure.

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