For this mock, I made the cap go up 3mil in the offseason to 86.5, I'm seeing that it's suppose to go up to 87+ but I kept it tame.
This isn't supposed to be some massive ground breaking fix-all for the Penguins. It's just realistic. As much as most fans want Graves moved, I just don't think you can move him with his contract and his M-NTC. You just gotta hope he's better next year.
Rakell is one more player I would see them dishing for cap relief and to add a roster spot for a young guy but again I just don't know that they will. I personally would move Rust before Rakell however there's been reports that the Penguins have not approach Rust about moving and that there is deep respect in the room for Rust so I think he stays. Like I said, I personally would move Rust and put Rakell on that top line with Sid, he's always played great with Sid. Then you can add another young guy in FA for the 3rd line RW slot. Smith is the obvious one to move, along with Nieto. I personally would move on from Accairi as well but again I just don't see Dubas doing that. I personally would keep Eller. He's a good veteran and although I'm all about this youth movement I still think you need a guy like Eller to anchor the bottom-6 with all that youth.
Again I dont LOVE keeping the exact same top-4 D but it's what it is at this point. At least between Broberg, POJ, Ludvig, and St. Ivany you've got some potential there for someone to pop. I'm not fully out on POJ like others are, remember his age, and look at Marcus Pettersson. He was a young third pair guy around that same age and lots of fans were ready to trade him. Now, 3 years later? He's our best defensive defenseman and and extremely vital part to our D core. Now I'm not saying POJ will do that, but I just personally prefer to be a bit more patient with defensemen.
For the goalies it's self explanatory. Ned has proven that he can be a 1A-1B goalie. He's terrific. Not to say Jarry hasn't been, Jarry has been good, but with Edmonton constantly hunting for that goalie it makes sense they'd go for Jarry. Blomqvist is ready to play in the NHL. The way I see it if you go with Ned-Blom or Jarry-Blom you are fine, it's just the cap hit on Jarry makes it way more valuable to move him rather than let Ned walk for nothing. Net can be a perfect bridge goalie for Blomqvist. A good 1A-1B relationship for them. Give Ned 45ish starts and Joel 35ish starts.
This team is younger, faster, and has more juice. As much as it stung to lose Jake for such a little return, I do like Bunting, I think he's a wish.com version of what we had in Hornqvist.
Between Gruden, Poulin, DOC, Puustinen, Bemstrom, Ludvig, Puljujarvi, Broberg, POJ, and St. Ivany, you've got lots of guys in their early to mid 20s who should improve.
The nature of it is, some of these young guys will pop a bit and some will be nothing-burgers but the way I see it. If you give 10 roster spots to young guys like I did here, and you can have say 5 of them pop a bit, you can re-evaluate at the deadline and know what you've got in some of your young guys. It's a way to help give yourself a better chance at fixing this thing before the big dogs retire.
Unlikely they ever win a cup before Sid retires, but at least this is a punchers chance if some of your young guys really pop.
Not entirely sure where the value sits on Broberg, you could easily add more either direction to make the value sit, but Broberg for Jarry are the main pieces in this swap.
The only way EDM invests such a significant amount of cap into a goalie is if Skinner has a 2nd piss poor playoff run. Otherwise, there's no reason to. He's been an above average starter since joining last year and he's both younger and cheaper than Jarry, who would bring a similar level of play. Even if he does play badly, I'm convinced they'd be confident in Jarry being so much better as to warrant investing 5.3mil in him.
Wouldn't the
Oilers just be better signing a UFA goalie than spending 5m on Jarry (who has M NTC). Oilers have Skinner, and they need cap.
Reilly doesn't seem to worth 5m now, so can't see any team with cap taking him, without sending cap back in return.
The only way EDM invests such a significant amount of cap into a goalie is if Skinner has a 2nd piss poor playoff run. Otherwise, there's no reason to. He's been an above average starter since joining last year and he's both younger and cheaper than Jarry, who would bring a similar level of play. Even if he does play badly, I'm convinced they'd be confident in Jarry being so much better as to warrant investing 5.3mil
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The only way EDM invests such a significant amount of cap into a goalie is if Skinner has a 2nd piss poor playoff run. Otherwise, there's no reason to. He's been an above average starter since joining last year and he's both younger and cheaper than Jarry, who would bring a similar level of play. Even if he does play badly, I'm convinced they'd be confident in Jarry being so much better as to warrant investing 5.3mil in him.
This is definitely me projecting Skinner to not be good and fall on his face. At the end of the day, a prospect for Jarry. Regardless of the team. Leafs. Devils. Oilers. Whoever needs a goalie.
It's less about Broberg and more about the idea of shedding Jarry to get a prospect who's close to NHL ready back. Similar to Dubas' sentiment of not wanting as many draft picks and preferring prospects.
Wouldn't the
Oilers just be better signing a UFA goalie than spending 5m on Jarry (who has M NTC). Oilers have Skinner, and they need cap.
Reilly doesn't seem to worth 5m now, so can't see any team with cap taking him, without sending cap back in return.
Reilly has been bad. He has. But he's not SO bad that you would have to pay to move him. I mean I'm not saying you'd be able to get a good prospect for him but someone who you like that was drafted in the 4th-5th round and is 21? Yeah you could probably fetch that.
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