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Created by: pens1991

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 12, 2024

Published: Feb. 12, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

For all the fans saying to sell, the team has mostly no value.

Rust = NMC
Rakell = bad contract at 30
Graves = bad contract
Smith = large cap hit + NTC
Eller/Acciari = no reason to move either, not making a difference with $2M in cap
Carter = Retiring and not waiving NMC
Ek = Not trading
Core three = not trading + letang/malkin have no value at this point in their career

Ned/Pettersson/Jake only value.

**Using ANA in these examples because they're top on the list. **

Trades

PIT

ANA

Guentzel, Jake

Additional Details:

Jake has the most trade value on the penguins right now.

If they want to trade him it will be a 1st + young (under 23) forward that currently has NHL experience and maybe another prospect/higher pick

PIT

ANA

Pettersson, Marcus

Additional Details:

Pettersson is one of the better Shutdown guys in the league and on good aav for another season.

If they decided to sell him he should be able to bring back a high pick + Prospect

PIT

ANA

Nedeljkovic, Alex

Additional Details:

with the way he's played this season + his AAV he should be able to fetch a 2nd or 3rd.

PIT

ANA

Smith, Reilly

Additional Details:

Best case scenario here is the penguins find a hockey trade, two struggling players around similar AAVs

otherwise not an easy way to move him with his cap hit + NTC. (would assume most teams with cap space are also on his NTC, CHI, ANA, BUF, etc)

PIT

ANA

Rust, Bryan

Additional Details:

Full NMC, so you'd first need him to waive which I am not sure if he would. If he does it would only be for a select few teams which means those teams would low ball because they know the penguins hands are tied. Rust stays, but just showing here that it would be next to impossible to get much of a return because of his current situation.

PIT

ANA

Rakell, Rickard

Additional Details:

Probably the hardest player to move. Having a very bad year after coming off of a strong year last year. New 5 year deal at $5M and is 30 currently. Not sure any team will want to take that deal on with the season Rakell is having. The penguins would most likely need to pay to move Rakell or again find a hockey trade (which just means they're getting another bad contract in return)

PIT

ANA

Graves, Ryan

Additional Details:

Having a very down year. Still seems like some teams/fans would be interested given his size but with the season he's having + the new contract it feels pretty difficult to move.

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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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
15	$83,500,000	$52,079,167	$0	$0	$31,420,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 2
	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3
	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 2	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Puljujärvi, Jesse $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 2
Harkins, Jansen $850,000$850,000 LW UFA - 1		White, Colin $775,000$775,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1
Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Feb. 12 at 12:37 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

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Pretty accurate and honest evaluations, both individual and overall. Nicely done! cheers

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Feb. 12 at 12:53 p.m.

HillbillyPenguin88

Joined: Dec. 2021

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This team is such a mess

Feb. 12 at 12:59 p.m.

JackSC87

Joined: Jan. 2017

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I've come to many of the same conclusions when thinking about what this team might do. Realistically, they're not trading Crosby, and as long as he's there they're not trading Letang or Malkin. And you can't start a rebuild and keep those guys around. Guentzel and maybe a few other small assets are the only moveable pieces.

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Feb. 12 at 1:35 p.m.

pens1991

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pens1991

Joined: Jul. 2022

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Quoting: JackSC87

The hardest pill to swallow is if the team had league average powerplay, and Smith and Rakell didn't nose dive the pens are easily sitting in the playoffs with the combined goaltending they're getting, penalty kill, faceoffs and 5v5 play.

14 one goal losses on the season.

Feb. 12 at 5:32 p.m.

MoSeider53

Future Norris guy

Joined: Aug. 2022

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The only team Bryan Rust goes to is Home Town Detroit, As he was going to sign there before he decided to re-up with Pittsburgh which is going to be a major mistake.

Feb. 12 at 8:06 p.m.

pens1991

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pens1991

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Quoting: MoSeider53

The only team Bryan Rust goes to is Home Town Detroit, As he was going to sign there before he decided to re-up with Pittsburgh which is going to be a major mistake.

I'm sure he'd waive for other contenders, so I doubt it'd be only one team.

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