 Alright so year one was not what we wanted we got eliminated in the second round to the Carolina Hurricanes in 7 a little tough to see so we're looking at the matchups for the East and West finals so it's looking like in the East it's gonna be Tampa playing the Carolina Hurricanes and then it is the Avil or it's the Blues playing the Coyotes who beat the Oilers in 7 so we'll simulate the free agency this episode is gonna be the draft free agency and see what we have to do like I said it's not really what we wanted from the playoffs we were looking to obviously get a Stanley Cup with this team and looking at the players I'm not sure if I won over this last video captain had himself a playoff run Grandlin the trade deadline acquisition had himself a playoff run I was just tough to see us go out in the second round I really thought we could have at least made it to the third if not the final so let's see who's gonna be crowned the the Stanley Cup winner now John Marino is able to play but doesn't matter rather the playoffs it is what it is so let's see who wins this cup here so the Tampa Bay Lightning have won it back to back call them the new Pittsburgh Penguins who won it back to back a couple years back so wow Tampa Bay winning it in 2020 and now winning it in 2021 so their teams obviously a juggernaut I'm not too surprised by it yeah interesting stuff to see so here the draft lottery results I don't think we have any draft picks in the first round because we were pushing to win a cup this year retired players let's see if we have lost anyone so Hosa has gone Zetterberg has retired Gabrik Charustin Kessler Roy Molson has anyone from the penguins retired no okay so that is good to see have any gold tennis retired no okay so it's good that no one's retired here the following coaches have retired cool and while retired players that are now a scout Ryan Kessler Zetterberg and Gabrik no shock of there that they'd be doing something after their pro career I do want to see what this is looking like here so the coyotes wow 1-6 against the Blues made it to the finals the Lightning 1-6 made it to the finals and the Lightning 1-5 so the coyotes have themselves a year man Stanley Cup final appearance good for them so NHL entry draft I don't think there's much for us to do I will edit our trade block don't know if there's anything we really need to do I do want to see what contracts we have expiring so we know what's happening here so it looks like Grand Lynn it'd be nice to bring him back he had a great playoff Eric Stahl it'd be nice to bring him back we acquired him in a trade early on in the year as well all right Cody CC like this is a guy we could let walk severe hopefully it's not too much to bring back Zac Aston Reese is another player who we can bring back but these guys are replaceable players if you really think about it we can go on a free agency and probably get the same players for a little bit cheaper if we really wanted to Teddy Bluger Jan Kelsky Rodriguez and that's about it goal-tending now we got Tristan Jari locked in for a while Samuel Casey to Smith we got to figure out our one-two punch for this year we did go with the Smith last year so we're going into this year with him being the starter so let's edit the trading block here I mean we could put Joseph out there I don't think why would we want to trade him kind of thing I don't really know who we would want to put out on the block here like these are players we want to keep but we'll put up Cusberry captaincy what kind of trade value he brings we'll put up a guy like Gensel Crosby and Malcolm just to see what kind of trade offers we would get for these guys not that I'm willing to move on with Crosby or Malcolm I kind of want to win one more cup with those two guys just so we can say we won it with those two guys and then once we win it maybe start blowing up the team but I just want to see what would happen here so let's enter the NHL entry draft and I know if you're a penguins fan you probably hate my guts right now but yeah I forgot to check the who won trophies but Matthews has won the Hart Memorial trophy he's won the Art Ross trophy Lafrenier won the Calder and that is about it I will go check awards after this that is my bad for not checking but awesome Matthews cleaning up there so to make sure I'm pretty sure we do not have a pick in the first round here so that's okay we will sim to the next round so pick 105 we are now in the fourth round man on trade news though nothing big there Silverberg has been dealt actually to the predators that's a pretty big deal the penguins appear to have tons of interest for Cindy Crosby we he's on our team what okay anyways let's go make our pick that was the dumbest thing I've seen in franchise mode so elite medium he's a grinder do we need a gold tender not necessarily be reflex actually it's a pretty good gold tender it wouldn't be bad to take a gold tender there he's probably our best bet to be honest man we got Brady Burns who he's not bad not the greatest skating pretty good shooting and puck skill pretty good hockey sense physical defense not bad so Brady Burns is up there you know what given that we don't really need a gold tender I kind of want to see how Brady Burns checks out here he's a two-way forward he had 63 games played last year he had 12 goals 28 assists he had 50 penalty minutes which I'm not the greatest fan of or the biggest fan of I was a plus 21 time when I said 8 to 1810 so that's not bad strength offensive instincts offensive creativity playmaking ability weaknesses balance face-offs lack of size so we could put him on the wing if he if he you know the face-offs doesn't pan out 5 10 153 is really small so hopefully he balks up I think we're gonna take a man I think that makes sense we'll make him our pick again I don't think we really needed a gold tender in that situation so we'll definitely take that so sim to our next pick round 5 here and see who is available so this guy's a top 9 forward not too bad for a center he's unknown fringe starter in Pearson CCB unknown let me do this year so we got this guy still up here and in all honesty I'm gonna take him just cuz we were looking at him before I really like his potential here he played 66 games last year 33 wins he almost had 2000 saves and 904 say percentage of 3.14 goals against average in a 5 and 5 shutouts strength puck handling which is good from a gold tender breakaway stick usage which is good weakness angles rebound control poise something that he could work on but I like his potential here and what did it say down here NHL ETA four years so that's not bad we will make that pick hopefully he becomes something for us in the later years when we're gonna have to eventually rebuild this Pittsburgh Penguins team round six here let's see what's available around six alright so we got a left winger here didn't play much not the greatest okay we'll skip on him we got another goal turner here Tyler go through a bba which is better than the last goalie we got strengths angles puck handling stick usage weakness rebound control so he doesn't have many rebate our many weaknesses 71 games played 40 wins in those 71 games he had over to 2100 saves 96 in save percentage seven shutouts not bad I think three years ETA it doesn't make sense to make two goalies but it's hard to pass up on a guy with such great grades like that so we will take that as soon to our next pick here we have back-to-back picks this round so we can really take our time in this round here we got Alexander Kone Dritev strengths leadership ability which I like puck protection offensive instincts weakness foot speed he's injury prone and he has great agility now when you talk about injury prone yeah he only played 13 games last season we'll probably gonna have to pass on that I'm not the biggest fan of that this guy looks interesting left winger he played 65 games last year he had 14 goals 31 assists not too bad I'm shooting B-minus pucks go B-minus CCCD on defense which is okay strength skating which is good he has a hardware shot agility weakness offensive consistency balance I think we're gonna go with Brooklyn Kalmikov yeah sounds good let's draft him and then we got another pick to make which I'm not too sure who we're gonna make here this is interesting he's a defenseman could play right or left he's 65 be an E on puck skill which isn't great sense is a C-minus DbD 54 games played last season he was he had three goals seven assists a plus 12 which is pretty good and initial ETA five years so we're gonna go with Benjamin Road why not what a name we are now in the seventh round here looking to make another great find here in the later rounds don't know if we're gonna find anyone too too good though this late when I say that we find Alexander Doucet he's a center slash left wing 511 skating is a D but like he could always work on that he's 19 you know what I mean so he has plenty of time to mature with that strengths is face-off strength and puck protection which I like weakness foot speed defensive consistency consistency and agility five years is his ETA I think we're gonna go with him why not I think that's a good pick you play center or left wing it's not too bad so that is it for us from the draft we will sim the entire NHL draft I think we made some good some good draft choices we had two four six draft choices this year which wasn't too much but it was more than I expected considering the trades we made so I'm not too bad of a draft from us and I'll head to the to the resign stage all right so start of the resign phase we have those six players that we have to get to so let's see what our priority is for this offseason how much cap we have as well so we have 42 million men that is nice we have a lot of money to work with maybe maybe just maybe we make a splash and free agency this year but let's see who we need to have to bring back obviously so bottom six forward like we can wait on these guys these guys we could just qualify in all honesty of the RFAs here is something that we want to sign so Rodriguez Weber CC Aston Reese Jan Kalski Sevier Bluger Grandland so our first our first one is Grandland I do want to bring him back five years though a four mil he's 29 that'll bring him to when he's 34 I would love to bring him back for like a two-year kind of contract let's see if you'll do two years at three four point three five I don't think that's too bad of a contract Eric stall how much are you looking for again two years that's not bad let's see if you'll do two years let's do one year flat and we'll give him what he wants a bit more four mil there so that's eight mil on two players now let's give him we'll give him three nine seven five what he wants to there and then these guys are the guys we drafted so let's see what those two guys say and then we'll go see what the rest of the contract situations looking like these are the coaches that are just whatever we don't really care about the coaches in all honesty so Eric stall is back with the penguins so that is good to see and so is me kill Grandland so the two big players that we wanted to bring back are now back so big stuff there goal-tending we don't have anyone to sign like legacy who's 28 like we can wait on him fringe starter I do want to bring him back so let's offer him a contract let's see if we can give him three years three years at 8.5 we'll offer the guys was this the guy I drafted yeah okay I want to offer him a contract for sure get him going with the penguins organization same with you alright so Teddy Bluger again these are guys you could bring back in free agency I don't mind giving him that let's see if we can sign him for a little bit less 1.4 would be nice to bring him bring him back Jan Kowski again these are just one your deals I feel like we could just pick them up in free agency if we need to so I'm gonna do this real quick actually this will make the most sense to be a one two three four five players that can possibly play center so like that's not bad so like Bluger we could have said no to let me just look at the wingers here we got one we got one two three and then one two which I think we're fine see if you're maybe we bring back just to be safe but I kind of want to go and make a splash in free agency that's why I'm kind of like hasn't seen on offering these guys contracts these guys here we're just gonna qualify our phase why not 7th defenseman he's only 20 so we might as well sign him Cody CC do we need to bring Cody CC back I kind of want to give Joseph a shout this year so we got one two three four five it'd be smart six with rude wheel maybe it would be a little smart to bring Cody CC but we can definitely bring him bring someone like him back in free agency worst case you're not worth the money that you want sure Yannick Weber he would be a guy to oh yeah I'll gladly bring Yannick Weber back for that platform medium will offer him a contract as well CVR again this is a guy we could bring back in free agency I don't want to give him 2 mil or Zach Aston Reese sorry so we'll release him CVR again 2 mil I'll gladly release you Evan Rodriguez I will gladly bring you back for that cheap I will gladly bring you back these are just rookies Jack Helski how much do you want I do I mind dishing that out we can we can pick up a player like that in free agency in honesty but we'll offer him the contract I want to release everyone you drill don't mind if I do again you're not definitely not worth that money in my opinion no problem Cody CC again it's a top four defenseman two years at 1.6 I don't really want to bring him back in all honesty so I'm gonna release him these guys will wait for the rest of these guys here so let's see what happens after that day here will advance it although I'm interested in a principal to extension I'm going to reject the offer the dollar value okay Rodriguez no problem Teddy Bluger is back John Kelski is back Weber is back Curry's back Goudreau is back Traumann's back and now it's just a rookie saying it's an honor to join the Pittsburgh Penguins team cool cool cool so Rodriguez what did we offer him in the first place do you want an easy 1 mil we'll give him one year of 1 mil do I really want to do that not really so again no give him 1 mil if he rejects that then that's fine by me I'm not gonna bother with him I will qualify the rest of these guys here not a problem I think that's all the U of A's okay and then who did we draft we draft the burns let's get him a three-year contract and that's it okay so free to see was fairly simple this year okay Rodriguez you're not gonna get an extension with us then I'll tell you that much so not too bad we're heading into free agency now Lindgren's back right I think those were the U of A's we qualified some of them at least all right so let's see who's out there in free agency how much we have to spend and yeah who are the big names out here on this block so Jaden Schwartz is a big name he only wants 2.8 mil interesting he is 29 they didn't have a great year last year we got bufflin Bertuzzi which is interesting okay Tyler Bertuzzi create each steel Jolmerson guest laugh Nugent Hopkins ooh ooh ooh okay I like the nudge there Hoffman Neil Peionk interesting all right there's a lot of names out here we're gonna have to kind of decide what we want to do Zach Hyman's also in free agency we got to decide what we want to do gold tending Tuca Rask is out there don't think I would want to mess with him Freddie Anderson okay he wants 5.2 mil so there's a lot of good free agents we got to see what it's gonna go on with our team here so like we can really we can go out and get a right winger defenseman is probably the one place we want to bulk up on so maybe we go for a defenseman so we got LaTang Marino that's one two three four and then five with Joseph so maybe it would be the smarter thing to go out and sign a good defenseman I think that makes the most sense Neil Peionk is very interesting to me we got Ryan Murray out there we got Sammy Vatan and Dennis Avard now the only reason why Peionk is standing out to me is he's only 25 he had a pretty decent year last year with Winnipeg 8 goals 31 assists only two penalty minutes was a 30 plus 31 he's a top four defenseman which would help out our top four I'm just trying to think if Joseph progresses do we keep Peionk on the top four I think we do I'm gonna try and go and get him so he wants four years we don't have enough we only have 3.5 mil to spend so that's an issue I thought we had way more cap than that I'm not sure if I'm totally sold on Yannick Weber so maybe we go see if we can afford a top six defenseman because our forwards are 100% fine so looking at a top six with the salary that we can afford Travis Hamnick is available we could barely afford him though he's 30 didn't have the greatest year last year he's the top four but he could definitely play a top six role we got four birds Jacob McCabe 27 that's not bad Travis Hamnick is 30 he wants two years Jacob McCabe is a little younger he's a top six guy better than Yannick Weber I want to say he's a very well-rounded personality mesh meshes well with anyone in the room which is huge so maybe we go out and try to get a Jake McCabe I'm kind of sold on him Travis Hamnick would be nice he's a top four defenseman so like he could pan out to play top four minutes if he if we really needed him to just an all-around good person in the locker room tends to keep to himself fits the following line top four defensive pairing yeah so we can't even afford him with what he wants now do we risk low ball in him and then Jake McCabe is gone you know what let's do it we'll give him a two year a 3.5 that's all of our cap I know it's not the smartest thing to do I doubt he accepts it so we'll wait and we're really playing our hand here and we're hoping that Jake McCabe is still available if he declines so nothing yet from him we're getting these trades that we don't really care about here yeah okay no that's fine guys we don't want draft picks wow Travis Hamnick okay I did not expect that so that is a huge acquisition for us actually Hamnick is coming over to the Pittsburgh Penguins on a two-year deal at 3.5 million dollars he's extremely happy to accept the offer so and he thinks he has a lot to add to the team that's destined for a good run in the playoffs he knows exactly what I'm aiming for all right so it is time to edit the lines here okay so let's see what we can do with these overalls here all right so this is what I put together for the start of next season now if you guys have any other suggestions to get better plus overalls in the comments to leave them below and I will fix up the lines but this is what we're going with to rock the season to start off the season we're gonna have Eric Stahl playing with Evgeny Melkin and Jake Gensel second line will be Zucker with Crosby and Kaepernan a fan of this line then the third line will be Brandon Tanev Mikkel Granlin and Jared McCann now I'm not too happy about McCann playing third line minutes he just doesn't fit on the second line unfortunately so it's just what we're gonna have to go with for the time being and then on the fourth line we got Teddy Bluger Jan Kelsky and Rust this is a line where we could probably make it a little bit better to get a plus overall but not about overall you know fourth line now defense is where it gets interesting we got Pedersen playing with Crystal Tang and no plus overalls they don't really need it that's our top pairing they'll be fine our second pairing we'll get a plus one so we have Travis Hamnick at an 82, Matheson at an 81 and then a plus one on this on this third pairing with Joseph and John Marino so that's the best I could do for defense wise here not too bad so it's looking pretty good special teams we did pretty good with we got a plus one on the power play units here four man we couldn't get any pluses but it's fine with the overalls that are on here on the pk I was able to get a plus three on the top unit so we should be killing penalties pretty good and then a plus one on the last line so the teams looking pretty good we're ready to start next season in all honesty let me make sure all the captains are set good Malcolm Crosby and it should be Christopher Latang beautiful so everything is set up we're done with that we're heading into next season starting with the pre-season again if you guys have any suggestions for the lines to get better plus overalls do let me know it's obviously something that we can fix within the season if we see things not going right so that's definitely a thing and let's turn off injuries so that's sorted out for next video but that is it for today's GMO next episode we start off year two with the sim