Quoting: capsfan2121
Kapanen= Mantha maybe. Marino= Orlov or Jensen I think. The prospect= protas. And a first and third
I gotta disagree with that a bit.
Value wise you might get close, but those guys are not the ones a rebuilding team are targeting. Kapanen and Marino are 25 and 24 respectively, with one of them being a RFA next year with his future contract still being a question mark, and one of them is signed to a favorable 6-year deal as a young asset. Meanwhile Mantha is 27 with three years left on his current deal, and Orlov's 30 with two years left. You could say these guys are at or past their prime, and their next contracts could very well be their last. Players like this, even if they were good players, are just not the kind of guys a rebuilding team is going to target, unless the deal involves another player in the same situation or the player is included to the trade as a cap dump. Rather these kind of players are the ones a rebuilding team would trade for younger ones.
Looking at the Caps roster, they simply do not have players like Kapanen or Marino right now. With the exceptions of Daniel Sprong and Dennis Cholowski, all of their players are 27+ and signed to long-term contracts or their best prospects able to play full time NHL. Therefore for a rebuilding team the best WSH has to offer are prospects, picks and cap dumps.
Considering the factors, if we were to form a trade involving the pieces talked about, it'd probably look something like this. I'm very open to suggestions and/or ideas.
F Alexander Radulov ($3,125,000 salary retained)
D John Klingberg ($2,125,000 salary retained)
F Denis Gurianov
G Braden Holtby
Total cap: around $10-11M.
Connor McMichael
Aliaksei Protas
Justin Schultz (has value, but must be added to make the cap work, and with only one year left he makes the most sense for a rebuilding team)
Michal Kempny (cap dump)
Carl Hagelin (cap dump)
2022 1st rd pick (WSH)
2023 1st rd pick (WSH)
2023 2nd rd pick (WSH)
2024 3rd rd pick (WSH)
Total cap: around $10M