Penguins best-case scenario

Created by: ChelPenguins

Team: 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 23, 2024

Published: Jun. 23, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lucius, Cruz		3	$850,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Andonovski, Corey	2	$925,000
Cajkovic, Maxim	1	$850,833
Veleno, Joseph	2	$2,100,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
DeBrusk, Jake		5	$5,820,632

Trades

PIT

2024 4th round pick (UTA)

UTA

Smith, Reilly

PIT

Veleno, Joseph [RFA Rights]
2024 3rd round pick (DET)

DET

Jarry, Tristan

PIT

2025 4th round pick (SJS)

SJS

Eller, Lars

PIT

VGK

Lucius, Cruz
Ludvig, John
2024 2nd round pick (PIT)
2024 4th round pick (UTA)

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$88,000,000	$78,380,791	$0	$57,500	$9,619,209

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
DeBrusk, Jake $5,820,632$5,820,632 RW, LW UFA - 7	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
O'Connor, Drew $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1	Roy, Nicolas $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, RW UFA - 3	Puustinen, Valtteri $775,000$775,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Poulin, Samuel $775,000$775,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Veleno, Joseph $2,100,000$2,100,000 C RFA	Acciari, Noel $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 2

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	Nedeljkovic, Alex $2,500,000$2,500,000 G UFA - 2
Hague, Nicolas $2,294,150$2,294,150 LD RFA - 1	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 $775,000$775,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Nieto, Matt $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Puljujärvi, Jesse $800,000$800,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jun. 23 at 9:59 p.m.

Jfstompers

Pop Pop

Joined: Feb. 2018

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Likes: 8,490

I'll do jarrry I'll even upgrade that 3rd to a 2nd if you retain a million on the contract

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Jun. 23 at 10:06 p.m.

buffbry

Buffbry

Joined: Aug. 2017

Posts: 9,555

Likes: 5,656

Wings pass, player is awful and contract is detrimental

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Jun. 23 at 10:13 p.m.

draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 10,052

Likes: 2,416

Watching Dubas try to rebuild the Pens will be entertaining.

Glorious or tragic or just plain funny.

Oh and you can't place a player on LTIR if your team can still fit him under the cap, so Nieto goes to IR.

Jun. 23 at 11:00 p.m.

glarson17

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 8,712

Likes: 3,954

Sharks pass

Jun. 23 at 11:04 p.m.

ChelPenguins

Joined: May 2022

Posts: 41

Likes: 3

Quoting: glarson17

Sharks pass

Reports have said the sharks are in the market for a veteran. Wouldn't be so sure...

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