I heart and read so many people suggesting to trade Malkin or Crosby, none of them ever came up with an example for a fair offer.
Both will be Penguins for life and there are several reasons.
1. Both love the city and the team
2. both love their status there
3. they have long term contracts and just signed them last year
4. No team is going to offer enough
10 team pts-only keeper league - keep 10 plus 10 from past/present farm. No bench: entire active roster counts. Goalies: 2 pts/win + 3/shutout. 82 adds / year. NHL playoffs count for separate prize.
F: J Eichel, M Tkachuk, J Guentzel, E Pettersson, P Laine, R Thomas, C Kreider, M Boldy, J Kyrou, M Backlund, F Vatrano, N Niederreiter, R Rakell, M Marchment, M Domi
D: A Fox, S Theodore, R Andersson, B Montour, S Durzi, D Keith
G: F Andersen, S Knight, J Swayman
IR: J Hughes, M Stone, M Grzelcyk, S Perunovich
Farm: L Raymond, O Wahlstrom, S Skinner, C Addison, Y Chinakhov, J Perreault
Should they trade him? Prolly. Will they? No.
I honestly point my finger at Kunitz and say he should be traded. But at 3.8mill, that’s pretty cheap.
It’s the Letang (7.25m), Crosby (8.7m), and Malkin (9.5m) that do the team in. but then they have a bunch for 3.5-5m players that get paid more than they should. Ehroff, Dupuis, Scuderi, Kunitz, Horny, Fleury, Sutter, and Martin. On other teams tho, they all make respectable amounts, but together, the bunch of midrange caphits add up.
As much as Letang is driven to stay in the league, he could be LTIR’d soon, freeing up 7.25mill a yr.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll
Keeper league 14 teams (H2H, 20 active players keep 16 NHLers, 16 minors)
Scoring Cats: G-A-PTS-PPG-PPA-(+/-)-HITS-BLK-SHP-SOG-FOW-GWG / W-L-SVS-SV%-GAA-SO
C- Crosby, Barzal, Bennett, Schmaltz, Cooley, Novak
W- Forsberg, Batherson, Nichuskin, Tuch, Konecny, Maccelli, Sharangovich, Bertuzzi, Kaliyev, Neighbours, Reichel
D- Carlson, Rielly, Klingberg
G- Hellebuyck, Demko, Merzlikins, Vejmelka
Minors:
F: Fantilli, Bourgault, Perreault, Cowan, Ohgren, N. Foote, Goyette, Iskhakov, Denisenko, Tracey
D: Simashev, Willander, Lambos
G: Schmidt, Rodrigue, DiPietro, Gaudreau, McKay
Dallas is a team that pops to mind that has cap space, assets and an aggressive GM.
Send out Nichushkin, Oleksiak, Eakin, Dickinson, 12th overall in 2015 for Malkin seems like more than enough, right? That leaves you with:
Forwards (Salary 41.85M total):
Benn-Seguin-Eaves (re-sign at ~1.5M)
Roussel-Malkin-Spezza
Garbutt-Fiddler-Hemsky
Moen-Sceviour-Ritchie
Defence (20.06M total):
Daley-Klingberg
Goligoski-Michalek (I've assumed signed at 5M)
Benn-Demers
Goaltenders(5.9M):
Lehtonen
XXX
Gives you about 3M-3.5 to get a backup/1B option - Fasth, Ramo, Enroth, Neuvirth, Gustavsson
m.staal, zuccarello,and haglen. plus we all know the rangers would throw every pick they owned in.
10 team Full Keeper Roto League
4C-4LW-4RW-6D-2G-5bench-unlimited farm.
C= eichel,horvat,malkin,kuznetsov
LW= forsberg,kreider,lee,b.tkchuch,hertle,granlund
RW= reinhart,radulov,hoffman,laine,hayes
D= doughty,ghostebehere,karlsson,jones,klefbom,dahlin ,skjei
G= price,murray,grubauer,georgiev,ullmark,samsonov
under250gp=nichushkin,tuch,mathesson,marino,pujuja rvi,hosang,terry,andersson,j.hughes,patrik,crouse, zadina,podkolzin,k.miller,nedeljkovic,kravtsov,hay ton
--G,A,P,PPP,SHP,GWG,PIMS,+/-,SOG,hits,FOW,blks-Wins,GAA,SV%,saves,SO