Audition Year -- Tank Mode

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Created by: netminder71

Team: 2024-25 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 14, 2024

Published: Mar. 14, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

- Ovi obviously stays in DC. Anyone suggesting he leaves is out of their danged mind.
- Oshie hangs out on LTIR...prob 20 games is a ceiling for him
- Eat some of Kuemper's deal and find a buyer
- Time to deal Carlson
- Let the kids all audition and get serious minutes

Shoot for 25 wins if you're really lucky.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Chesley, Ryan		3	$975,000
Leonard, Ryan		3	$975,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Frank, Ethen	2	$880,000
Gibson, Mitchell	2	$880,000
Häman Aktell, Hardy	2	$925,000
Johansen, Lucas	1	$775,000
Limoges, Alex	1	$775,000
Malenstyn, Beck	2	$975,000
McMichael, Connor	4	$3,300,000
Phillips, Matthew	1	$875,000
Sutter, Riley	1	$875,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Snively, Joe		2	$825,000

Trades

WSH

2024 4th round pick (COL)
2024 5th round pick (SEA)

Additional Details:

Maybe not Colorado...but he "could" be better suited NOT in DC. This has been a huge bust of a signing. Retain some cap hit, maybe a late round pick swap to augment

COL

Kuemper, Darcy ($1,250,000 retained)
2025 5th round pick (WSH)

WSH

2024 7th round pick (OTT)
2026 3rd round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

Either TvR or Jensen will be moved over the summer, so I am hoping WSH can get some middle picks to dump more salary

TOR

Jensen, Nick

WSH

2025 2nd round pick (MIN)
2026 5th round pick (SJS)

Additional Details:

A player well past him prime that does not defend "well" but can qb the power play and he brings name recognition. Granted $8M is a huge contract...but maybe find some GM interested

MIN

Carlson, John

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeny Kuznetsov: $3,900,000 (50%)
Darcy Kuemper: $1,250,000 (23.81%)

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	$85,000,000	$66,937,500	$2,252,500	$1,332,500	$18,062,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Lapierre, Hendrix $863,333$863,333 ($445,000$445K) C RFA - 1	Wilson, Tom $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 7
Miroshnichenko, Ivan $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LW RFA - 2	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 4	Protas, Aliaksei $3,375,000$3,375,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 5
Milano, Sonny $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	McMichael, Connor $3,300,000$3,300,000 LW, C RFA	Dubé, Pierrick $870,000$870,000 ($80,000$80K) RW RFA - 1
Malenstyn, Beck $975,000$975,000 C, LW RFA	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 1	Phillips, Matthew $875,000$875,000 RW, C UFA
Snively, Joe $825,000$825,000 LW UFA	Sgarbossa, Michael $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 2	Stevenson, Clay $775,000$775,000 G UFA - 3
Sandin, Rasmus $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD UFA - 5	Iorio, Vincent $814,167$814,167 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 2	Lindgren, Charlie $1,100,000$1,100,000 G UFA - 1
Häman Aktell, Hardy $925,000$925,000 LD RFA	Bear, Ethan $2,062,500$2,062,500 RD UFA - 1
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1

Mar. 14 at 3:37 p.m.

NARC311

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If Carlson is only fetching a 2nd I’d rather just keep him tbh.

Other moves look good tho. I agree that the Caps should not try to flip this retool around too fast, as fun as it is to think up some Tkachuk/Keller/etc. trades & signings

Mar. 14 at 3:51 p.m.

Logicalicesports

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I think Leonard makes the team Immediately. Him not being in your top 9 let alone your team isn't right there

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Mar. 14 at 3:55 p.m.

Birtle34

Bandwagon fairweathe

Joined: Jun. 2018

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Minnesota probably doesn’t have the cap, might as well retain on Carlson and try to get the best return possible, probably going to need 3/5 years anyway to rebuild.

Mar. 14 at 3:56 p.m.

SimonVenell

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Minnesota doesn't have the cap space, and would also have no interest in an agin defenseman when we have good younger defenseman and are trying to get younger.

Mar. 14 at 4:21 p.m.

netminder71

Thread Starter

Let's GO CAPS!

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Quoting: NARC311

What about 2 second rounders? I mean he is rather passed his best years and that injury last year has hampered him.

Mar. 14 at 4:22 p.m.

netminder71

Thread Starter

Let's GO CAPS!

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Quoting: SimonVenell

Minnesota doesn't have the cap space, and would also have no interest in an agin defenseman when we have good younger defenseman and are trying to get younger.

FAIR. But let's call Minn a placeholder for "any team" willing to take on that contract.

Mar. 14 at 4:23 p.m.

netminder71

Thread Starter

Let's GO CAPS!

Joined: Jun. 2016

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Quoting: Logicalicesports

I think Leonard makes the team Immediately. Him not being in your top 9 let alone your team isn't right there

FAIR assessment, but I am not 100% sure so I kept Oshie in there maybe 20-30 games.

Mar. 14 at 4:28 p.m.

TJTwolf

Joined: Jan. 2017

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I would try almost certainly won't be Colorado on that one. Can't afford him. Simple as that. The amount you're retaining on Kuemper is about as much as the Avs will have to spend on a back up G if they're lucky.

Mar. 14 at 7:20 p.m.

SimonVenell

Joined: Jan. 2024

Posts: 180

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Quoting: netminder71

FAIR. But let's call Minn a placeholder for "any team" willing to take on that contract.

That fair. I do agree y'all should move that contract, just not to us lol.

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