An optimistic next few months for the Pittsburgh Penguins

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Created by: sensonfire

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 15, 2024

Published: Mar. 15, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

1. Pittsburgh wins the draft lottery for the #1 overall pick and selects Macklin Celebrini.

2. Carolina wins the Stanley Cup, but fails to sign Jake Guentzel to an extension.

3. Head Coach Mike Sullivan is replaced with another Head Coach that has a Stanley Cup winning pedigree.

4. Good trades are found for Reilly Smith and Lars Eller

5. Sidney Crosby signs a 3 year extension with a cap hit of no more than 10 million dollars.

6. A quality defensive-minded right shot D and a decent backup for Tristan Jarry are signed from free agency.

7. Owen Pickering and Brayden Yager make the Penguins team out of training camp.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Yager, Brayden		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bemström, Emil	2	$775,000
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier	2	$775,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$775,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
DeMelo, Dylan		4	$4,500,000
Jones, Martin		1	$1,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Celebrini, Macklin		3	$950,000

Trades

PIT

2024 1st round pick (PIT)

SJS

2025 1st round pick (PIT)

PIT

2024 1st round pick (CAR)
2024 5th round pick (CAR)

CAR

2024 2nd round pick (PHI)

PIT

2024 3rd round pick (FLA)

FLA

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

PIT

2026 2nd round pick (COL)

COL

Eller, Lars ($1,225,000 retained)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)
Reilly Smith: $2,500,000 (50%)
Lars Eller: $1,225,000 (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
23	$87,500,000	$81,672,675	$0	$250,000	$5,827,325

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Celebrini, Macklin $950,000$950,000	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
Bunting, Michael $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	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
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Yager, Brayden $950,000$950,000 C, LW, RW RFA	Puustinen, Valtteri $775,000$775,000 RW, LW UFA
Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bemström, Emil $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 5	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	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 3	Jones, Martin $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA
Pickering, Owen $918,333$918,333 ($250,000$250K) LD RFA - 2	DeMelo, Dylan $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Puljujärvi, Jesse $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 1
Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $775,000$775,000 LD RFA

Mar. 15 at 5:21 p.m.

JeffW

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Avs are cap strapped, to much value and salary for Eller at 4C

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Mar. 15 at 6:12 p.m.

Rob32sjsharks

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Like a 3% shot at #1 and yet I’ve seen a dozen Celebrini to Pittsburg posts lol you guys are dreaming! Sharks will have the best or 2nd best odds and I’ve split my ACGM between getting and not getting him.

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Mar. 15 at 6:24 p.m.

Xqb15a

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COL has already been there done that with Eller no need to revisit.

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Mar. 15 at 7:02 p.m.

seanrushton

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The Hurricanes winning the cup would make it more likely that he signs with the Hurricanes not less... see last years vegas team

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Mar. 15 at 7:34 p.m.

sensonfire

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sensonfire

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Quoting: seanrushton

The Hurricanes winning the cup would make it more likely that he signs with the Hurricanes not less... see last years vegas team

Are you prepared to give Guentzel 8.5 million x 8 ?

Mar. 15 at 8:07 p.m.

sensonfire

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sensonfire

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Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

On the bright side of things for San Jose, you will likely have at least 3 unconditional 1st round picks for the 2025 draft.

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Mar. 15 at 8:15 p.m.

Rob32sjsharks

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Quoting: sensonfire

On the bright side of things for San Jose, you will likely have at least 3 unconditional 1st round picks for the 2025 draft.

25 supposed to be a pretty deep draft year, so I excited about that but I fear both Vegas and Pittsburgh knowing they don’t have a first wind up all the way into the conference finals or the cup just to piss me off lol

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Mar. 16 at 11:57 a.m.

seanrushton

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Quoting: sensonfire

Are you prepared to give Guentzel 8.5 million x 8 ?

We can give him that almost ($8.49m) and still be able to sign everybody else that we need to so I'd be fine with that

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Mar. 18 at 9:42 a.m.

JSEB93

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The outrage of the hockey community if the Pens win the lottery would certainly be a sight to behold lol

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