24-25 Penguins Youth Movement

Forums/Armchair-GM

Page 1 of 1

Created by: Fluxcc

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 24, 2024

Published: Mar. 24, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

- Bring in a lot of youth, like Dubas wanted.

- Insider Pitt said management thinks Yager will be NHL ready this upcoming season.

- Have a shutdown D on every pairing.

- Sign NCAA free agent Collin Graf.

- Keep 2024 1st and draft Zayne Parekh, we need a successor to the Letang/Karlsson offensive right-shot D throne after they retire.

- Likely won't be able to move Graves for anything, so we keep him and hope he bounces back.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Yager, Brayden	3	$900,000
Murashov, Sergei	3	$900,000
Nickl, Thimo	3	$775,000
Ilyin, Mikhail	3	$800,000
Lucius, Cruz	3	$800,000
Collins, Nolan	3	$775,000
Broz, Tristan	3	$775,000
Hållander, Filip	3	$775,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Puustinen, Valtteri	3	$925,000
Poulin, Samuel	1	$900,000
St. Ivany, Jack	2	$900,000
Gruden, Jonathan	2	$775,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Zadorov, Nikita	2	$4,000,000
Teräväinen, Teuvo	3	$6,000,000
Reinhart, Sam	3	$9,500,000

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Graf, Collin	3	$950,000
Parekh, Zayne	3	$950,000
Rueschoff, Austin	2	$775,000

Trades

PIT

2026 5th round pick (CHI)

CHI

Acciari, Noel

Additional Details:

Any team

PIT

2025 6th round pick (SJS)

SJS

Nieto, Matt

Additional Details:

Any team

PIT

2025 2nd round pick (LAK)

LAK

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

Additional Details:

If they're still interested, if not, then any team that will take him.

PIT

2024 3rd round pick (PIT)

ANA

Rakell, Rickard

Additional Details:

Any team.

PIT

2024 1st round pick (PIT)

SJS

2025 1st round pick (PIT)

PIT

2025 4th round pick (SJS)

SJS

Eller, Lars

Additional Details:

any team

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

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$87,675,000	$87,516,842	$0	$160,000	$158,158

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Teräväinen, Teuvo $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW UFA	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Reinhart, Sam $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW UFA
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	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 4
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Yager, Brayden $900,000$900,000 C, LW, RW RFA	Puustinen, Valtteri $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Poulin, Samuel $900,000$900,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Ponomarev, Vasili $795,000$795,000 ($20,000$20K) C RFA - 1	Koivunen, Ville $805,833$805,833 ($82,500$82K) RW RFA - 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. 24 at 12:20 p.m.

Garak

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 11,489

Likes: 11,554

Definitely wouldn't be CHI, but I'm sure you could find a team with interest in Acciari.

Fluxcc and OldNYIfan liked this.

Mar. 24 at 12:33 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 41,086

Likes: 25,857

I think that your Team Description sets forth an excellent strategy -- and the only one that makes sense for the Penguins.

As to the actual trades, I don't think that either SoCal team is interested in either player. Los Angeles needs to spend money on Matt Roy and goalies, and neither Smith nor Rakell is a long-term solution at RW for Anaheim and the Ducks don't need a stop-gap solution, either.

Fluxcc liked this.

Mar. 24 at 12:39 p.m.

Fluxcc

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2023

Posts: 56

Likes: 10

Quoting: OldNYIfan

I just randomly chose any team, I don't care where they go, as long as they are off the roster to make room for young guys to come in.

OldNYIfan liked this.

Mar. 24 at 1:24 p.m.

Jded

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 2,937

Likes: 1,964

I think you’re overly optimistic on PIT’s ability to move Rakell. An >30 year old winger seemingly declining on a $5M contract with 4 more years is an anchor. I love the guy as an ANA fan, but I wouldn’t take him back in ANA if you’d offered a late first with him tbh

Mar. 24 at 1:59 p.m.

Fluxcc

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2023

Posts: 56

Likes: 10

Quoting: Jded

That's fair and if we were stuck with him you throw him on 2nd line and bump everyone else down.

Mar. 24 at 9:10 p.m.

LuckyMoneyPuck

SkateOrDie

Joined: Feb. 2024

Posts: 3,061

Likes: 473

no chance they use that pick on a defenseman.
They will draft a center or top 6 capable winger. My guess is Iggy.

Fluxcc liked this.

Mar. 24 at 9:17 p.m.

Fluxcc

Thread Starter

Joined: Aug. 2023

Posts: 56

Likes: 10

Quoting: LuckyMoneyPuck

no chance they use that pick on a defenseman.
They will draft a center or top 6 capable winger. My guess is Iggy.

I would be happy with any of the forwards available in that 8th - 9th pick range as well, depending on which prospect ranking you're looking at: Catton, Iginla, Eiserman, Helenius would all be going around that range.

Page 1 of 1

DISPLAY SETTING

BETTING ODDS

LOCALE

ARCHIVE

CBA

CALCULATORS

FANTASY HOCKEY TOOLS

TOOLS

PLAYERS

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

INTERACTIVE FEATURES

Forums/Armchair-GM