Bringing Youth Into The AHL And NHL

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Created by: Fluxcc

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 23, 2024

Published: Mar. 23, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

- Bringing in a lot of youth to the AHL, while still keeping some vets to help mentor the kids. This is preparing the kids for coming to the NHL when we start our full rebuild after the core retires.

- Internally promoting several youth to the NHL roster to achieve Dubas' goal of getting younger.

- I don't think we can get out from under Graves' contract, so we keep him and hope he has a bounce back year, though that may just be wishful thinking.

- Keep our 2024 top-10 protected 1st and draft Zeev Buium or Zayne Parekh, send our 2025 1st to San Jose.

- Sign NCAA free agent Collin Graf to a maximum ELC. If Acciari is not performing effectively by December, trade him, and bring Graf up to the NHL.

- Sign Murashov to an ELC for the WBS Penguins to start getting NA pro experience.

- Sign Yager to an ELC to start getting experience in our system in WBS, comes to NHL in 2025/2026 season.

- Sign Ilyin to an ELC to start getting NA pro experience and see what he really can do.

- Might be a pipedream, but bring Guentzel back at 10.5M AAV for 5 years.

- Bring in Zadorov to be a shutdown guy with Letang.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Yager, Brayden	3	$900,000
Murashov, Sergei	3	$900,000
Nickl, Thimo	3	$825,000
Collins, Nolan	2	$775,000
Ilyin, Mikhail	2	$825,000
Lucius, Cruz	2	$775,000
Broz, Tristan	2	$775,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Gruden, Jonathan	2	$775,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$900,000
Poulin, Samuel	2	$900,000
St. Ivany, Jack	2	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Shea, Ryan	2	$775,000
Guentzel, Jake	5	$10,500,000
Zadorov, Nikita	3	$4,000,000

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Graf, Collin	3	$950,000
Buium, Zeev	3	$950,000
Rueschoff, Austin	1	$775,000

Trades

PIT

2024 6th round pick (ANA)

ANA

Nieto, Matt

Additional Details:

Any team that will take him.

PIT

2024 1st round pick (PIT)

SJS

2025 1st round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

Keep our top-10 pick this season and draft Zeev Buium.

PIT

2025 2nd round pick (LAK)

LAK

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

Additional Details:

Assuming they're still interested this offseason, if not send to any team that will take him.

PIT

2024 3rd round pick (NJD)

NJD

Rakell, Rickard

Additional Details:

Any team that needs / wants him.

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)
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	$87,675,000	$86,041,842	$0	$160,000	$1,633,158

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $10,500,000$10,500,000 LW, RW 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	Puustinen, Valtteri $900,000$900,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Ponomarev, Vasili $795,000$795,000 ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 1	Koivunen, Ville $805,833$805,833 ($82,500$82K) RW RFA - 2
Poulin, Samuel $900,000$900,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
		Puljujärvi, Jesse $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
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	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Zadorov, Nikita $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD UFA	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Blomqvist, Joel $886,667$886,667 ($57,500$58K) G RFA - 2
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 5	St. Ivany, Jack $900,000$900,000 RD UFA - 3
Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1

Mar. 23 at 9:58 p.m.

SolarHarbor

Joined: Mar. 2024

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Rakell and Smith contracts are fine. No need to retain unless its to juice the return...

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Mar. 23 at 10:15 p.m.

LuckyMoneyPuck

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Joined: Feb. 2024

Posts: 3,061

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Pens should have moved Rakell after last year.
The problem isn't the player, he's on a slowing Malkin's line. It's dragging him down.
What they should really do is play him with Sid, let his number come back in line, and then trade him out.
That way they can really get to making the team younger.

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Mar. 23 at 10:32 p.m.

jfkst1

"Go sell ice cream!"

Joined: Jun. 2015

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Quoting: SolarHarbor

Rakell and Smith contracts are fine. No need to retain unless its to juice the return...

Doubt that very much. If I'm another GM I see two 30+ year olds that are likely in age decline and especially with Rakell, not worth their contracts. Smith maybe for something minimal. But the fact he wasn't traded at the deadline tells me the offers must not have been that strong.

Mar. 23 at 10:50 p.m.

Letsgosharks

Joined: Feb. 2021

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if im the pens I give the 24 first to San Jose if its 9 or 10

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Mar. 23 at 10:53 p.m.

Fluxcc

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2023

Posts: 56

Likes: 10

Quoting: Letsgosharks

if im the pens I give the 24 first to San Jose if its 9 or 10

We are definitely regressing and the possibility is there we'd get an even better pick in 2025, but there are some major studs in that 8-10th range in this draft. We're going to need an offensive right-shot D when Letang and Karlsson are gone and Zayne Parekh fits that perfectly, Zeev Buium fits the role as well, just on the left-shot and hell we could maybe even get a really high pick if the lottery is in our favor. If we did luck out in the lottery and somehow got Ivan Demidov this draft. That is EXACTLY the kind of exciting, flashy player that the Penguins need for their rebuild.

Mar. 23 at 11:30 p.m.

LuckyMoneyPuck

SkateOrDie

Joined: Feb. 2024

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Quoting: Fluxcc

the penguins won't get close to the top of the draft this year.
They are still financially stable. So the league hasn't hit the panic button yet. But when they realize they are dealing with another franchise that is not soluble and possibly on the verge of moving then things will change. When their revenue is down to the 120-150 mil per year like the rest of the bottom of the league and they start talking about moving again.... then the league will "do something" again.

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Mar. 23 at 11:43 p.m.

Letsgosharks

Joined: Feb. 2021

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Quoting: Fluxcc

idk man, from what Ive heard I think the 25 draft is stronger, if you guys keep regressing, you could be giving San Jose a top 5 pick, as much as I would love that I don't think you guys would hahah

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Mar. 23 at 11:43 p.m.

Fluxcc

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2023

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Quoting: LuckyMoneyPuck

Surely the league would never rig a draft lottery to help a struggling team, SURELY.

Mar. 23 at 11:44 p.m.

Fluxcc

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2023

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Quoting: Letsgosharks

idk man, from what Ive heard I think the 25 draft is stronger, if you guys keep regressing, you could be giving San Jose a top 5 pick, as much as I would love that I don't think you guys would hahah

The 2025 draft is deeper and has a lot more centers, but the top-13 of this draft is as strong, if not stronger than the '25 draft. Yes, we would hate to give up a top-5 pick, but I am still hopeful we can maybe turn it around this offseason and have a better year next year, might be wishful thinking though.

Mar. 23 at 11:53 p.m.

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Letsgosharks

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Quoting: Fluxcc

either way I like the deal for San Jose hahahah

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