Its better for the Caps to Miss the Playoffs

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Created by: Logicalicesports

Team: 2023-24 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 8, 2024

Published: Apr. 8, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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I know once you make it to the post-season its anyone's opportunity to get hot and win the cup.

BUT I really cannot see the Capitals making it past the first/second round if they got hot. There are too many staked teams to trust in the Capitals hot and cold game play to make it through them.

I would honestly say its best for them to get a higher overall pick and a chance at a better prospect to help our rebuild.

With prospects of Leonard, Funk, Cristall, Stevenson, Persson and Sudz we have a great start to this rebuild. That is not even mentioning the young players currently playing with the Caps Miro, McMichael, Lapierre, Sandin, Marty, Iorio (that is a scratch but still up).

The best course of action is keep stacking the prospect pool and get this team ready for the next era.

Capitals will have a lot of Caps space (depending on what McMichael signs for.... I am thinking somewhere in the 5 years 4 m. AAV range)

Trades

WSH

TEAM DOES NOT MATTER!!!!!!!!!

This is only players that need to be traded during the offseason.

Also not putting in a return.

Best offer just take it go.

VGK

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeny Kuznetsov: $3,900,000 (50%)
Joel Edmundson: $875,000 (50%)
Anthony Mantha: $2,850,000 (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	$83,500,000	$63,159,167	$20,000	$2,930,000	$20,340,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 5	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Miroshnichenko, Ivan $950,000$950,000 ($500,000$500K) LW RFA - 3	McMichael, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 1	Protas, Aliaksei $789,167$789,167 ($82,500$82K) RW, LW, C UFA - 1
Pacioretty, Max $2,000,000$2,000,000 ($2,000,000$2M) LW NMC UFA - 1	Lapierre, Hendrix $863,333$863,333 ($232,500$232K) C RFA - 2	Milano, Sonny $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
Malenstyn, Beck $762,500$762,500 C, LW RFA - 1	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 2	Aubé-Kubel, Nicolas $1,225,000$1,225,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 3	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Lindgren, Charlie $1,100,000$1,100,000 G UFA - 2
Sandin, Rasmus $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD UFA - 1	Iorio, Vincent $814,167$814,167 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 3	Stevenson, Clay $855,000$855,000 ($57,500$58K) G UFA - 1
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Sgarbossa, Michael $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 2		Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2
Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2

Apr. 8 at 9:20 a.m.

NoVaSpartan

Craig Laughlin Fan

Joined: Nov. 2019

Posts: 5,312

Likes: 5,745

Can't imagine you'll get positive value for Kuemper. The Merz-Kuemp swap I've seen thrown around seems to be the closest the Caps would get to any sort of "value" (though for reasons of earlier in the season I don't know if Merz would get along well in DC). I'd rather just hold onto him: buy him out if you must next year but at least let him mentor Stevenson for a season before he's shown the door. Would like to see them keep Bear around unless they need the cap space. I haven't really been a fan of his this season but depth is always needed and you might be able to pawn him off for more at the deadline if you give him another chance next season.

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