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It's opening night and the Pens have only 3 players surviving from the original roster... G Murray, G DeSmith and LW Aston-Reese...
A 3 way Blockbuster seen C Crosby a 5th and a 6th round pick go to Washington for G Samsonov, LD Hughes and a 1st round pick and right after the Pens moved newly acquired G Samsonov, D Lajoie a 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks to the Avs for C MacKinnon.
It's interesting to see that most Pens players with a NTC accept trades to Washington ( Malkin, Letang, Crosby, Voynov )
D Voynov who's contract was expiring got his rights traded to Washington for a 4th rounder
D Hamonic was sent together with prospect McKenna to the Ducks for a 3rd rounder
D Pietrangelo and a 7th round pick went to Arizona for a 1st rounder
We signed free agent D Trouba to a 5 year deal with a 4mil/year cap hit, LW Ratcliffe and C Morand ( both 4.5 star potential and 2 star ability and 23 years of age ) to 2 year deals with .925mil/year. RW Girgensons to a 5 year deal worth 1.45mil/year.
Extensions to our new core players took place too
G Murray 8 years for 7mil/year
RW Boeser 3 years for 4.85mil/year
LD Provorov 2 years for 5.45mil/year
LW Rantanen 2 years for 5.95mil/year
LW Tkachuk 2 years for 4.66mil/year
C MacKinnon 8 years for 7.65mil/year
bottom 6 players got new contracts too, lots of them took less than on their current deal ( see salary obligations pic attached )
We are very healthy cap wise this year, but our current roster would be 0.8mil over the cap next year ( we can have 22 players on the active roster and we will be ok )
opening nights roster and salary details attached...
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