Salary Cap: Pens Off Season Thread: Pre Free Agency Shenanigans!

[Nakawick]

Finding a taker for Petry then signing Bear sounds good to me

But who replaces Petry?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Yeah you can get Hanifin this season with a starter of less than $4m and one of DOC/Poehling on the 3rd line.

 

[Ryder71]

Pittsburgh's gonna have some really nice options tomorrow. Just hope Kyle maximizes his cap flexibility and garners superb value.

I imagine If we are acquiring Hanifin at minimum one of POJ or Ty Smith is going back which saves us a million dollar cap.

Poj should go in such a deal. We'd have to add but again their cap situation sucks, so. lol

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

Read this on ESPN and caught this blurb. Love how the Jets have higher standards than back to back champions

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The fact the Jets were eliminated in the first and/or qualifying round for the third time in five seasons created more questions about what appeared to be a stagnant core. Those concerns intensified even more considering Wheeler along with Connor Hellebuyck, Nino Niederreiter and Mark Scheifele each had one year left on their contract.

 

[Josey Wales]

Read this on ESPN and caught this blurb. Love how the Jets have higher standards than back to back champions

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The fact the Jets were eliminated in the first and/or qualifying round for the third time in five seasons created more questions about what appeared to be a stagnant core. Those concerns intensified even more considering Wheeler along with Connor Hellebuyck, Nino Niederreiter and Mark Scheifele each had one year left on their contract.

YEAH They have been so much more successful

 

[Extra Texture]

Yuck. He's Basically Conor Sheary. I'd want to get bigger.

But for all the pratfalls Sheary served us pretty damn well. If he can bring anywhere near the production that Sheary did for around 1.5, I would be ecstatic to sign Yamamoto for a couple of years and continue hunting for bottom six talent with size the remaining 13m that we’ve got.

For the size, I’d go get Comtois, who Anaheim are going to let walk.

 

[Jacob]

I feel like this happens every year. He always seems better than what he gets paid. He can't even get a multi-year deal. This will be his 7th(!) 1 year contract in a row.

His agent must really suck or he has severe commitment issues.

Finns are like those animals on remote islands that have no natural predators so they just walk right up to humans and get clubbed in the head.

Haha oops he's Swedish

 

[Gurglesons]

Pittsburgh's gonna have some really nice options tomorrow. Just hope Kyle maximizes his cap flexibility and garners superb value.


Poj should go in such a deal. We'd have to add but again their cap situation sucks, so. lol

Who?

 

[Andy99]

Oh you sweet summer child.

I was thinking the same thing: haven’t you read all those article about a Sullivan doubling down on his system, committing to play it even harder lol

 

[Jacob]

I'd be very interested in a Yamamoto or Jost if I was a bad team with top-6 openings like Arizona or Montreal.

 

[Peat]

Based on one tweet and one video, I've decided I will be outraged if we don't take a chance on Matthew Phillips tomorrow.

 

[66-30-33]

Who?

Wheeler, ZAR, Simon.

 

[AjaxTelamon]

They likely can't afford Hanifin while also keeping Petry, that's the issue.

If only there were a way to instantly have 4m in additional cap space this year.

 

[Gurglesons]

Based on one tweet and one video, I've decided I will be outraged if we don't take a chance on Matthew Phillips tomorrow.

Felix Robert vibes IMO. @Zirakzigil tho.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I keep doom-refreshing HFBoards. I need to stop -- it's bumming me out.

 

[Ryder71]

Who?

Pretty much anyone they want. With all the UFA's and now these buyouts they have enough cap space to get a couple really nice pieces. Beyond that there are contenders hard up against the cap. He already got Reilly Smith for a 3rd, I can see another deal or two along those lines. Although I don't think we'll use draft picks necessarily.

 

[Gurglesons]

Pretty much anyone they want. With all the UFA's and now these buyouts they have enough cap space to get a couple really nice pieces. Beyond that there are contenders hard up against the cap. He already got Reilly Smith for a 3rd, I can see another deal or two along those lines. Although I don't think we'll use draft picks necessarily.

So name some. You said there are all of these great options. Let's hear him, officer.

 

[Ryder71]

So name some. You said there are all of these great options. Let's hear him, officer.

Hanifin, Zadorov, Toews (COL) some of the recent buyouts. 2hd tier UFA's, there's a lot of possibilities.

 

[Empoleon8771]

If only there were a way to instantly have 4m in additional cap space this year.

The buyout window is closed so there isn't a way to do that.

 

[Gurglesons]

@SEALBound your boy Gurianov was not qualified if you want to see Kapanen. 2.0

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Hanifin, Zadorov, Toews (COL) some of the recent buyouts. 2hd tier UFA's, there's a lot of possibilities.

lol Toews is not an option.

 

[Gurglesons]

My boy Fischer not qualified.

 

[Ulf5]

Gonna call Vinnie Hinostroza as a two-way depth add now. Will probably be wrong. But quick, scores, and probably overlooked due to not playing much recently (I think injuries?)

8 years- 3 with 60 or more games, 1 with 70 or more games. Hopefully there's a spot left in the infirmary.

 

[Ryder71]

lol Toews is not an option.

Avs are up against it.

 

[Empoleon8771]

A 3C option I like after seeing he will not be qualified: Sam Steel.

10 goals and 28 points in 65 games last year. He was used in a bit more of an offensive bottom-6 role and had pretty good analytics, but was used in a defensive role in Anaheim in 2021-2022 and actually had decent defensive analytics. He's only 25 and shouldn't be too expensive to sign, so he'd likely be a lot cheaper than someone like Kerfoot.

He's not a perfect fit for the 3C spot, but I don't think he's any worse of a fit than ERod and he'd likely be a good bit cheaper than Kerfoot.

My boy Fischer not qualified.

I'd easily sign Fischer to push Carter to the pressbox and have the 4th line be O'Connor-Poehling-Fischer.