Équipe: 2023-24 Penguins de Pittsburgh

Date de création initiale: 11 déc. 2023

Publié: 11 déc. 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

I don't think this is will really happen, but the only way I see the pens making a trade(s) to try and improve the team this season is moving someone like Smith. To me no one else is realistic to free up some cap (Rust is having a very strong season, Rakell's contract is highly unattractive, Eller/Acciari don't move the needle, Carter obviously isn't waiving + you'd have to pay to move him).

Good year, and only a season and a half left on his contract. (yes i know he has 10 team NTC, not sure who they'd be, ANA could definitely be one)

If you move him I think the goal would be to try and find a team that has a Center on their final year of contract that could become your 3C and then look to add a scoring winger elsewhere.

**not necessarily saying the value below is correct but this is just an example of the kind of deal I would try to make/find (acquire a LW + C)**

Smith isn't deadweight or not worth his contract by any stretch, so this isn't a cap dump. The pens could just realistically find 2 players for the price of one guy.

Two risky moves in Vrana and Puljujarvi, but they're lower cost and if they pay off... great.

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