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Created by: MajesticWalrus

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 29, 2023

Published: Nov. 29, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Accurate/Prorated

LTIR Enabled: Yes

Season Days: 192

Days Remaining: 141

Season Remaining: 73%

Projected Cap Hit Prior To Days Remaining

: $85,338,266

Description

The Penguins are juggling a lot of balls right now. Bad balls. Injuries as usual. Inconsistencies especially from goaltending. Pittsburgh have been eliminated early and have been unsuccessful for the playoffs 6 years in a row now.
2017-18 Won 1 Round
2018-19 Lost First round
2019-20 Lost First round
2020-21 technically missed playoffs Lost First qualifying round
2021-22 Lost First round
2022-23 missed playoffs
The one common factor is Mike Sullivan. Penguins are on their third GM and the roster has changed a lot too.

Trades

PIT

Gibson, John ($2,000,000 retained)

ANA

Carter, Jeff
Harkins, Jansen
Jarry, Tristan
2026 2nd round pick (PIT)

PIT

Schenn, Luke

NSH

2025 3rd round pick (PIT)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$81,504,342	$0	$0	$1,995,658

Prorated Cap Hit

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$3,304,688 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$6,389,063 C NMC UFA - 2	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$3,763,672 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$3,671,875 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$4,479,688 C NMC UFA - 3	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$3,671,875 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Pitlick, Rem $1,100,000$807,813 LW, RW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$1,468,750 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	White, Colin $775,000$569,141 C, RW UFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$679,297 LW UFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$1,799,219 C UFA - 2	Hinostroza, Vinnie $775,000$569,141 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$3,304,688 LD M-NTC UFA - 6	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$7,343,750 RD NMC UFA - 4	Gibson, John $4,400,000$3,231,250 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$2,955,988 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$4,479,688 RD NMC UFA - 5	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,101,563 G UFA - 1
Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$587,500 RD UFA - 1	Schenn, Luke $2,750,000$2,019,531 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Nieto, Matt $900,000$660,938 LW, RW UFA - 2	Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$605,859 LD RFA - 1
Smith, Ty $775,000$569,141 LD/RD RFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Zohorna, Radim $775,000$569,141 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1
Butcher, Will $775,000$569,141 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 1

Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:40 p.m.

GeneralLandro

Joined: Jun. 2021

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Anaheim passes alllllllll day long

You want us to take Jarry’s contract and ALSO retain 2 million a year on Gibson? LOL Not to mention taking a Carter cal dump as well

Crazy

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Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:49 p.m.

MajesticWalrus

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2017

Posts: 3,012

Likes: 350

Quoting: GeneralLandro

Anaheim passes alllllllll day long

You want us to take Jarry’s contract and ALSO retain 2 million a year on Gibson? LOL Not to mention taking a Carter cal dump as well

Crazy

Not like Anaheim is competing. Goalies don't have good value so don't expect something amazing. Gibson is somewhat better than Jarry, jarrys still good. The reason pens do this is to shed cap which is why there's retention. Carters ok but 3 million makes all the difference with competing teams so fans complain

Nov. 29, 2023 at 5:03 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

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Quoting: MajesticWalrus

So what's in this for Anaheim? Instead of $6.4 million for Gibson we pay $7.375 million for Jarry plus the retention? In what universe does that make sense, never mind your agreement with our assessment that Gibson is a better goalie than Jarry. You think that a crummy over-the-horizon second is sufficient compensation for that, never mind the two cap dumps?

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Nov. 29, 2023 at 5:58 p.m.

GiggywithGibby

Future Ducks legend

Joined: Jun. 2022

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Quoting: MajesticWalrus

So Gibson is better, but you want us to eat 8 million of his contract, take the worse goalie back, take cap dump Carter, threw in a depth forward, and our payment for ALL OF THAT is a 2nd round pick three drafts away?

Nah, we'll just keep the better goalie. You can have Stalock for that offer.

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Nov. 29, 2023 at 7:11 p.m.

PenGoater99

Analytics are good

Joined: Jan. 2018

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Jarry has been excellent this year. It's a dumb idea to trade him.

And Schenn sucks. I'd rather run a 3rd pair of POJ-Ruhwedel which is very good and cost effective.

Nov. 29, 2023 at 9:39 p.m.

MajesticWalrus

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2017

Posts: 3,012

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Quoting: PenGoater99

Jarry has been excellent this year. It's a dumb idea to trade him.

And Schenn sucks. I'd rather run a 3rd pair of POJ-Ruhwedel which is very good and cost effective.

Schenn doesn't suck. Great defensively and great physically. poj and ruhwedel arent good enough. Honestly we dont need poj, aka another offensive dman if hes not getting enough pp time he wont become anything special. Which is what's happening so far. We already have two future HOF d in letang and karlsson and we're win now. Ruhwedel is good enough for last pair or 7th d. Ideally 7th d on a cup level team.

Nov. 29, 2023 at 9:47 p.m.

DNP1932

Joined: Nov. 2023

Posts: 140

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Quoting: MajesticWalrus

Wouldn’t know why you’d think Gibson is better than Jarry, Gibson has been terrible for the past several years, and even this year jarry has been better. Not sure why some pens fans want to trade goalies right now since all 3 goalies we’ve had play have good gsax and save %s. Right now that’s not where our struggles have been. Also if carter would be willing to waive he would’ve been moved I can almost guarantee that.

Nov. 30, 2023 at 9:38 a.m.

JSEB93

Joined: May 2022

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Edited Nov. 30, 2023 at 9:48 a.m.

The Pens goaltending hasn't been close to an issue. 50 goalies have played 8+ games - Jarry is 10th in GSAx and 11th in save% via MoneyPuck. And he's 7th in GSAx via Evolving Hockey. Overall the Pens are 5th in goals against below expected, and 7th in save% via Natural Stat Trick.

But all of this is moot anyway most likely because of the inclusion of Carter

Nov. 30, 2023 at 9:42 a.m.

JSEB93

Joined: May 2022

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Quoting: MajesticWalrus

POJ is 100% good enough. He proved that last year - and we know now that the reason he hasn't been playing this season is because of injury. I'm fine with him being trade bait for an improvement at another position, but he definitely is good enough.

Ruhwedel is a fringe bottom pair dman for sure, but the Ruhwedel/POJ pair actually performed pretty well, although a small sample size of course.

Nov. 30, 2023 at 12:03 p.m.

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PenGoater99

Analytics are good

Joined: Jan. 2018

Posts: 3,604

Likes: 962

Quoting: MajesticWalrus

Schenn is awful lmao. He can't skate and the Pens don't need physicality and his contract is terrible. POJ and Ruhwedel have very good possession metrics, it's just that they don't put up many points or have a flashy playstyle. For a combined AAV of 1.65M, it's hard to do any better in terms of a balance between cost-effectiveness and getting good results.

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