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Created by: NoVaSpartan

Team: 2023-24 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 28, 2023

Published: Aug. 28, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Couple notes:
Mantha on line two, Carbery uses him properly and he can make up for some of Kuznetsov's defensive inadequacies. Same goes for McMichael in terms of use.
Milano is the perfect fit for Backstrom and Oshie until one of them is inevitably injured.
When Pacioretty returns, I can see Aube-Kubel waived, Malenstyn/Frank sent down, McMichael moves to the bench and Patches moves to line 2. Could also put Milano on line 4, and putting either Patches or McMichael on line 3.
Mantha and McMichael timeshare on PP2 until one of them becomes clearly better than the other.

My one hot take (though I don't have it here): Alexeyev excels and beat out Edmundson for the 3LD spot, and Carbery trusts him due to familiarity between the two from Hershey.

Trades

WSH

CHI

Lindgren, Charlie

Additional Details:

Waiver claim, whoever needs a goalie

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
23	$83,500,000	$75,851,667	$20,000	$82,500	$7,648,333

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 5	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
McMichael, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 1	Kuznetsov, Evgeny $3,900,000$3,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Mantha, Anthony $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Milano, Sonny $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Protas, Aliaksei $789,167$789,167 ($82,500$82K) RW, LW, C UFA - 1	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 2	Aubé-Kubel, Nicolas $1,225,000$1,225,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 3	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Kuemper, Darcy $5,250,000$5,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Sandin, Rasmus $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD UFA - 1	Jensen, Nick $4,050,000$4,050,000 RD UFA - 3	Shepard, Hunter $775,000$775,000 G UFA - 2
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 2		Pacioretty, Max $2,000,000$2,000,000 ($2,000,000$2M) LW NMC UFA - 1
Frank, Ethen $775,000$775,000 C RFA - 1
Malenstyn, Beck $762,500$762,500 C, LW RFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Kuznetsov, E.		Bäckström, N.		Oshie, T.
	Ovechkin, A.		Carlson, J.

Power Play 2
Mantha, A.		Strome, D.		Wilson, T.
	Ovechkin, A.		Sandin, R.

Penalty Kill 1
	Dowd, N.	Wilson, T.
	van Riemsdyk, T.	Jensen, N.

Penalty Kill 2
	Bäckström, N.	Protas, A.
	Fehérváry, M.	Carlson, J.

Aug. 28, 2023 at 2:37 p.m.

BoringBrianMacLellan

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Shepard should be the first call up, but I highly doubt he beats out Lindgren in camp.

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Aug. 28, 2023 at 2:38 p.m.

NoVaSpartan

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Quoting: BoringBrianMacLellan

Shepard should be the first call up, but I highly doubt he beats out Lindgren in camp.

I don't think he will either, but the cap positives brought by waiving him make me at least consider the possibility of Shepard staying up. I'm not as high on him as most are but the 400k difference in salary could be extremely valuable.

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Aug. 28, 2023 at 3:28 p.m.

Snowhawk18

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I don’t think there is a roll in Chicago for Lindgren now but he is actually someone I thought they should be interested in before last season, I think he is a good depth goalie for some team.

Aug. 28, 2023 at 3:57 p.m.

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I thought the caps couldnt put Pax on LTIR to start the season since he was signed when injured. Idk maybe I'm wrong

Aug. 28, 2023 at 4:18 p.m.

brady_t12

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Quoting: jazzykiwi

I thought the caps couldnt put Pax on LTIR to start the season since he was signed when injured. Idk maybe I'm wrong

I don’t think there’s any rule about that but I don’t know that they’ll do it because Pacioretty might be ready to play before he misses the 10 games / 24 days you need to miss to qualify for LTIR.

Aug. 28, 2023 at 4:37 p.m.

BoringBrianMacLellan

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Quoting: NoVaSpartan

Fair. Watching him through the Calder run, I just don't see Shepards play style translating to the NHL that well. Seems to clunky to me. However, I also said the exact same thing about Vanacek when he was in Hershey and Adin Hill when he first came up in Arizona, so who knows. I'm super excited about Stevenson and Gibson getting looks in Hershey this year though

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Aug. 28, 2023 at 5:48 p.m.

krakowitz

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I think instead of waiving Lindgren they'll roll with 22 skaters until Pacioretty is ready to come back and then make decisions from there. Kuemper is beginning to build a bit of an injury history, and Lindgren did a good job filling in when he went down for a while. Frank can develop more in Hershey to keep better goaltending depth

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