An interesting 24-24

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Created by: Ennis

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 16, 2024

Published: Mar. 17, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Dubas is doing as he should. Selling off players and trying to make the oldest team in the league younger.

Washington has it right. Mesh young players into the old core for an eventual seamless transition. Guys like McMichael, Lapierre, Sandin, Protas, Miroshnichenko and eventually Leonard will be looking great in years to come.

I don't think Pittsbugh should immediately tank in 24-25, but I think the team should still look to get younger. The recipe of aiming for young players/rookies rather than stockpiling draft picks is a better look. Trying to build a wildcard team to give the old core 1 final 'hoorah' shouldn't be the plan, no matter how much Crosby whines about it.

DISCLAIMER: Just hypothetical trades. Ideally, some trades where you get picks you'd try to get young roster players.

DISCLAIMER X2: I also know I'm using more than 3 retention slots. Not all trades have to happen, it's just a hypothetical for each.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Puustinen, Valtteri	1	$925,000
Samorukov, Dmitri	1	$775,000
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier	2	$2,000,000
Bemström, Emil	1	$1,000,000
Poulin, Samuel	2	$900,000
Rathbone, Jack	2	$850,000
Podkolzin, Vasily	1	$925,000
Mahura, Josh	2	$1,400,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Zohorna, Radim	1	$1,000,000
Jones, Martin	1	$1,500,000
Lyubushkin, Ilya	1	$1,500,000

Offer Sheets

Offer sheet annual average (AAV) is calculated by dividing the contract value by the lower of: 1. The contract length, or 2. Five years

PLAYER	AAV	COMPENSATION
Mahura, Josh	$1,400,000	No Compensation

Trades

PIT

2025 3rd round pick (TBL)

Additional Details:

TBL could benefit from Eller

TBL

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

Additional Details:

Good defensive bottom 6C, sold to a contender who needs him

PIT

Podkolzin, Vasily [RFA Rights]
2025 5th round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Solid middle 6 piece shipped to ANY contender. Vancouver a placeholder.

VAN

Smith, Reilly ($2,500,000 retained)
2025 3rd round pick (TBL)

PIT

2024 2nd round pick (MIN)
2025 3rd round pick (MIN)

MIN

Pettersson, Marcus ($2,000,000 retained)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)
Lars Eller: $1,225,000 (50%)
Reilly Smith: $2,500,000 (50%)
Marcus Pettersson: $2,000,000 (49.69%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$87,700,000	$79,274,167	$0	$20,000	$8,425,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Puustinen, Valtteri $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA	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
Podkolzin, Vasily $925,000$925,000 RW, LW RFA - 2	Ponomarev, Vasili $795,000$795,000 ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 1	Bemström, Emil $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, LW RFA
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

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
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD RFA	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 3	Jones, Martin $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA
Mahura, Josh $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA	Lyubushkin, Ilya $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA

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

Mar. 17 at 12:25 a.m.

canucksfan43

Joined: Feb. 2017

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Canucks pass. Cant see them moving Pod for Reilly Smith, when we can barely afford him

Mar. 17 at 12:26 a.m.

Ennis

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Joined: Oct. 2022

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Quoting: canucksfan43

Canucks pass. Cant see them moving Pod for Reilly Smith, when we can barely afford him

I picked Pod because he's a young player who hasn't really panned out. Just an idea of someone Pittsburgh can target.

Mar. 17 at 12:49 a.m.

edeangel84

JimmyPaek

Joined: Apr. 2019

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Reilly Smith is unfortunately going to be on this team starting next season barring some miracle where Dubas learns about buyouts.

Ennis liked this.

Mar. 17 at 12:54 a.m.

Ennis

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Joined: Oct. 2022

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Quoting: edeangel84

Reilly Smith is unfortunately going to be on this team starting next season barring some miracle where Dubas learns about buyouts.

Should be traded imo

Mar. 17 at 1:17 a.m.

PenGoater99

Analytics are good

Joined: Jan. 2018

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That is a garbage return for Pettersson who has been the only d-man who has a pulse in his own end this year.

Trading him isn't an option.

Mar. 17 at 1:29 a.m.

Canucks33

Joined: Dec. 2017

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Podkolzin hasn't been incredible overall but he's been solid since being called up. He's a Tocchet type player who can play physical along the boards and win battles. He praised Podkolzin in the media the other day talking about how much better his defensive reads have gotten. Given that he's a cheap, young, cost-controlled player I don't see any reason to move him unless its for an equivalent young C or RHD.

The chance to move Smith to VAN was last week.

Mar. 17 at 1:11 p.m.

JayTea

14m in dead cap

Joined: Mar. 2019

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Quoting: PenGoater99

That is a garbage return for Pettersson who has been the only d-man who has a pulse in his own end this year.

Trading him isn't an option.

It also doesn't make a lot of sense for the Wild to spend assets on their position of least need. They have Brodin and Middleton for their top 4 LHD next year and can rotate some of their prospects in on the 3rd pair to see if any of them sticks. Merrill is fine enough if none of them stick for another year that they're not likely to be doing much of anything with all that dead cap.

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