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Pittsburgh Penguins
the loser media and the negative mentality
The biggest issues with this team have been the coaching and the GM.
Since JR left it's been a disaster of bad moves by arrogant know it all GMs who can't accept their own failure.
Hextal was a moron and a disaster.
Dubas has been no better. He's done nothing to improve the team. One could say he's severally damaged it in not getting value for Jake and even letting him leave to begin with.
But things could change over night.
Montgomery was just released from BOS.
This is a guy who knows how to win with older players. He also knows how to build a team around them with less.
Sully has been given a lonnnnnnnnnng leash. But his time needs to be up, and there is no better coach out there for this team than Montgomery, who should be hired immediately to replace him.
This is the first step to fixing this team.
The second is to get personnel decisions out of the hands of Dubas. He's a moron.
He couldn't build a team if his life depended on it. He would have wasted the careers of Matthews and Nylander if he stayed in TOR and he'll destroy the rest of this team if he's allowed to keep making decisions here.
He's had two years, and he's done nothing positive for this team and the proof is on the ice and the roster you got.
He needs to either be fired or told he no longer makes personnel decisions.
This team is not a rebuild yet. It just hasn't had the right GM and coach capable of doing anything with it.
But the window is open to turn this around for a 2 year run.
This is the beginning of a solid team, with cap space to burn.
The bottom 6 is the best it's been in Dubas 2 years.
The top 6 still capable. The defense has cap to improve.
They just need to get decent goal tending.
Jump to CommentsProjected Cap Hit
$63,051,505
Projected Cap Space
$24,986,926
Total Moves
29
Roster Players
23 / 23
Transactions (9)
Trades (7)
PIT
ANA
M. Nieto
$900,000$900 K
J. Puljujarvi
$800,000$800 K
M. Grzelcyk
$2,750,000$2.8 M
C. Glass
$2,500,000$2.5 M
NHL Roster (23)
Left Wing
Center
Right Wing
Left Defense
Right Defense
Goalie
Press Box
IR
LTIR
PB1
IR3
IR2
IR1
LTIR1
Non-Roster (24)
Left Wing
Center
Right Wing
LW6
LW5
Left Defense
Right Defense
Goalie
Cap Projections
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cap Ceiling | $88,000,000 | $88,000,000 | $88,000,000 | $88,000,000 |
Projected Cap Hit | $63,051,505 | $57,534,167 | $40,161,667 | $26,100,000 |
Projected Cap Space | $24,986,926 | $30,465,833 | $47,838,333 | $61,900,000 |
Bonus Overages | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Active Roster | 21 / 23 | 17 / 23 | 11 / 23 | 5 / 23 |
Standard Contracts | 41 / 50 | 25 / 50 | 14 / 50 | 5 / 50 |
Retained Remaining | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Roster Breakdown
Forwards
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sidney Crosby | $8,700,000 | $8,700,000 | $8,700,000 | |
Evgeni Malkin | $6,100,000 | $6,100,000 | UFA | |
Bryan Rust | $5,125,000 | $5,125,000 | $5,125,000 | $5,125,000 |
Rickard Rakell | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
Michael Bunting | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | UFA | |
Rutger McGroarty | $950,000 | $950,000 | $950,000 | RFA |
Brayden Yager | $950,000 | $950,000 | $950,000 | RFA |
Drew O'Connor | $925,000 | UFA | ||
Tristan Broz | $925,000 | $925,000 | $925,000 | RFA |
Ville Koivunen | $805,833 | $805,833 | RFA | |
Vasiliy Ponomarev | $795,000 | RFA | ||
Samuel Poulin | $775,000 | $775,000 | RFA | |
Valtteri Puustinen | $775,000 | $775,000 | UFA |
Defense
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kris Letang | $6,100,000 | $6,100,000 | $6,100,000 | $6,100,000 |
Ryan Graves | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 |
Owen Pickering | $886,667 | $886,667 | $886,667 | RFA |
Harrison Brunicke | $875,000 | $875,000 | $875,000 | RFA |
Ryan Shea | $775,000 | UFA | ||
Jack St. Ivany | $775,000 | $775,000 | $775,000 | UFA |
Goaltenders
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tristan Jarry | $5,375,000 | $5,375,000 | $5,375,000 | $5,375,000 |
Alex Nedeljkovic | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | UFA |
Buyouts
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jack Johnson | $916,667 | $916,667 |
Retained Contracts
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jeff Petry | $3,906,250 | |||
Reilly Smith | $1,250,000 | |||
Noel Acciari | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 |
Non-Roster Players
Forwards
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tanner Howe | $875,000 | $875,000 | $875,000 | RFA |
Bennett MacArthur | $859,167 | RFA | ||
Raivis Ansons | $844,176 | RFA | ||
Bokondji Imama | $775,000 | UFA | ||
Joona Koppanen | $775,000 | UFA | ||
Emil Bemstrom | $775,000 | RFA | ||
Jonathan Gruden | $775,000 | $775,000 | RFA | |
Jimmy Huntington | $775,000 | RFA | ||
Corey Andonovski | $775,000 | RFA | ||
Marc Johnstone | $775,000 | UFA | ||
Filip Hallander | ||||
Kasper Bjorkqvist |
Defense
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Isaac Belliveau | $875,000 | $875,000 | RFA | |
Emil Pieniniemi | $838,333 | $838,333 | $838,333 | RFA |
Nathan Clurman | $775,000 | UFA | ||
Sebastian Aho | $775,000 | $775,000 | UFA | |
Mac Hollowell | $775,000 | RFA | ||
Filip Kral | $775,000 | RFA |
Goaltenders
2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Joel Blomqvist | $886,667 | $886,667 | RFA | |
Sergei Murashov | $861,110 | $861,110 | $861,110 | RFA |
Taylor Gauthier | $859,167 | RFA | ||
Filip Larsson | $775,000 | $775,000 | UFA | |
Filip Lindberg |
Reserve List (19)
- Sign RFA
- Sign Prospect