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Created by: Korax

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 12, 2024

Published: Mar. 12, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bemström, Emil	2	$1,300,000
Gruden, Jonathan	2	$900,000
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier	2	$1,400,000
Poulin, Samuel	2	$950,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$1,400,000
Rathbone, Jack	2	$900,000
Samorukov, Dmitri	2	$900,000
Hamaliuk, Dillon	2	$900,000
Brännström, Erik	2	$2,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
DeBrusk, Jake		5	$5,500,000

Trades

PIT

OTT

Graves, Ryan
Karlsson, Erik ($2,000,000 retained)

PIT

Kupari, Rasmus
2025 3rd round pick (WPG)

WPG

Smith, Reilly ($2,500,000 retained)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)
Erik Karlsson: $2,000,000 (20%)
Reilly Smith: $2,500,000 (50%)

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	$83,104,342	$0	$0	$395,658

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bunting, Michael $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 4
DeBrusk, Jake $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Puustinen, Valtteri $1,400,000$1,400,000 RW, LW UFA	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 1	Kupari, Rasmus $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW, RW RFA - 1
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bemström, Emil $1,300,000$1,300,000 RW, LW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chabot, Thomas $8,000,000$8,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Brännström, Erik $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD, LW RFA	Forsberg, Anton $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD RFA	Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Puljujärvi, Jesse $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Poulin, Samuel $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, LW RFA
Hamaliuk, Dillon $900,000$900,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW RFA
Koivunen, Ville $805,833$805,833 ($0$0$0$0) ($82,500$82K) RW RFA - 2
Ponomarev, Vasili $795,000$795,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 1
Pickering, Owen $918,333$918,333 ($0$0$0$0) ($250,000$250K) LD RFA - 2
Blomqvist, Joel $886,667$886,667 ($0$0$0$0) ($57,500$58K) G RFA - 2

Mar. 12 at 6:03 p.m.

Haymaker26

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 941

Likes: 408

I'm going to be honest, I don't think this team fixes the problems we had last season.
Our poor depth and power play killed us. DeBrusk's power play scoring has been decent (although his 5v5 play has slipped and I think that's an expensive cap hit for him), but the Senators' PP is only 2 spots better than ours. Replacing EK with Chabot on one of our units isn't going to make it better.
Kupari is the only bottom 6 addition and he doesn't have a consistent roster spot this season. I'd rather give his spot to any of the forwards on the taxi squad other than Hamaliuk.
Neither POJ or Ludvig have looked good enough to me this season, and having one RHD in the NHL isn't an ideal situation.

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Mar. 12 at 6:04 p.m.

sens65

Joined: Mar. 2018

Posts: 7,136

Likes: 3,490

Take out Graves and I'd consider it.

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Mar. 13 at 9:04 a.m.

athrin

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 5,787

Likes: 1,507

OTT declines

Mar. 13 at 9:15 a.m.

Windjammer

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 15,753

Likes: 7,002

Unlikely Winnipeg helps Pittsburgh out by paying that much for one year of an older, declining winger.

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