Washington Retool

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Created by: Logicalicesports

Team: 2024-25 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 25, 2024

Published: Apr. 25, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Washington will not be rebuilding well Ovi is on the team.

They need to get younger and faster to be competitive in the post season. This run was a miracle but if they end up losing in a sweep its time for a bit of a heavier retool.

Trades:

Florida: It seems Florida has lost faith in Knight and he is impacting their roster for 3 million sitting in the minors. This moves gets the caps a young goaltender they can try to reload around, and it gives Florida decent draft capital coming back for the risk of taking on the 4.5 million dollar contract and hoping for a bounce back.

Colorado: Another team hurting for cap space and it is becoming obvious that they need someone better in net. Lindgren has fully broken out and is dirt cheap. Getting them a starting goaltender for almost nothing on the books. They get a cheap winger option to plug into the lineup resulting in them having more money to spend on the big players. Caps take Girard for Cap relief and the Young Russian stud to help retool the group.

Toronto: It seems obvious that Toronto's issue stem in crease and blueline. This would assist their lack of own zone blueliners.

The Caps need to give Stevenson the starting role in Hersey next year to continue his development. Trade Sheppard to someone who needs a backup and bring Gibson up to back up Stevenson.

Give Persson a good hard look in training camp. I think he could be a surprise roster player for the Capitals. Completely destroying it in Mestis and if he can bring even half of that to the NHL he will be a good player for the Capitals.

Puustinen becomes the new Hags on the fourth line. (Assuming he prices himself out of the Pens lockerroom)

Oshie may or may not play depending on health obviously so he is sitting in the IR spot for now

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Chesley, Ryan	3	$950,000
Karabela, Jake	3	$850,000
Magnusson, Oskar	3	$775,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McMichael, Connor	3	$3,500,000
Malenstyn, Beck	2	$1,250,000
Gibson, Mitchell	2	$900,000
Frank, Ethen	1	$900,000
Häman Aktell, Hardy	1	$950,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Puustinen, Valtteri		3	$2,000,000

Trades

WSH

Knight, Spencer

FLA

Bjorklund, Garin
2024 3rd round pick (BOS)
2025 2nd round pick (COL)

WSH

COL

Lindgren, Charlie ($300,000 retained)
Milano, Sonny
2025 2nd round pick (BOS)
2026 4th round pick (VGK)

WSH

Grebyonkin, Nikita [Reserve List]

TOR

van Riemsdyk, Trevor
2025 5th round pick (CHI)

WSH

2024 7th round pick (SEA)
2025 7th round pick (SEA)

SEA

Shepard, Hunter

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeny Kuznetsov: $3,900,000 (50%)
Charlie Lindgren: $300,000 (27.27%)

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	$87,500,000	$85,921,250	$2,252,500	$1,332,500	$1,578,750

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 4	Wilson, Tom $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 7
Miroshnichenko, Ivan $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LW RFA - 2	McMichael, Connor $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C RFA	Kovalenko, Nikolai $896,250$896,250 ($57,500$58K) RW RFA - 1
Persson, Ludwig $846,667$846,667 ($80,000$80K) LW, C RFA - 2	Lapierre, Hendrix $863,333$863,333 ($445,000$445K) C RFA - 1	Protas, Aliaksei $3,375,000$3,375,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 5
Malenstyn, Beck $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW RFA	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 1	Puustinen, Valtteri $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Sandin, Rasmus $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD UFA - 5	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Knight, Spencer $4,500,000$4,500,000 G RFA - 2
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Kuemper, Darcy $5,250,000$5,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Jensen, Nick $4,050,000$4,050,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Sgarbossa, Michael $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1
Bear, Ethan $2,062,500$2,062,500 RD UFA - 1

Apr. 25 at 4:37 p.m.

TJTwolf

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Avs decline if only because they won't ship Kovalenko out before they've even had a chance to look at him.

Apr. 25 at 6:17 p.m.

qc14

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I like and get the idea of all of these individually and think they're generally fair on value. At a macro level though I'm not sure anything here has enough upside, especially at forward. You'd be relying on big jumps from at least one of McMichael/Lapierre/Miro/Sandin and either Knight or Kuemper to find their game. Also while Persson definitely had an underrated season amongst Caps prospects, I would be shocked if he even made it to the last round of camp cuts -- the Mestis is not a great league and I think he needs probably 2 seasons in Hershey before he (hopefully) threatens for a spot.

Apr. 26 at 11:22 a.m.

Logicalicesports

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Quoting: qc14

Understandable, I do not think we will be competing next season at all to start. Mestis isn't great but its still pretty good. If he can make the jump to Liiga next season and do what he did in Mestis I would say he needs to be on the roster ASAP. I think the goal should be much younger than this season. But who knows maybe we do need to more or less firesale the entire roster and start over.

Apr. 26 at 11:42 a.m.

qc14

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Quoting: Logicalicesports

I don't think we need to firesale the entire roster (in large part because they basically have 2.5 appealing assets between Dowd, Lindgren, and Jensen) and while we certainly have lots of old players this year we also have a large quantity of young guys playing or slated to play big roles next year in McMichael, Lapierre, Protas, Miro, Sandin, Fehervary, and even AA.

The problem IMO is that neither amongst our group of old players nor in the group of young players is there a skater who legitimately can make a claim to being top 32 in their position besides Carlson. To either compete next year OR to continue to retool OR to fully rebuild you need to be able to have truly elite talent. That was the logic behind rolling the dice with Kuzy and Backstrom this year even if the odds they'd return to that level were incredibly slim, and why I'm so bummed Leonard isn't signing. I like Girard and Knight a lot as players but I don't think either of them have that potential. If you're going for a "continue to transition around Ovi while not truly tanking" strategy (which is the right one to take!) I think they need to take some bigger risks. Guys like Laine, Zegras, Norris, PLD all have bigger downsides and a Konecny, Thomas, or Chabot will have a much larger acquisition cost but I think you have to be operating on those levels to pull this off successfully even if there's a risk it doesn't work out.

Apr. 26 at 11:54 a.m.

Logicalicesports

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Quoting: qc14

Check out the post I just made and see if that hits more true to this.

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