 Alright it's year 2 off season time and my god we have a lot of stuff to do so let's send to the draft. Last video we saw that the Florida Panthers were the 2021-2022 Stanley Cup champions and we were heading in to this draft with a first round pick I believe. So player retirement let's see who has retired. Louis Erickson, Yusei Okunin, Andrew Ladd, Tyler Bozak, Cody Franzen didn't know if he was still playing. Has anyone from the Penguins retired? No goalies? No. Okay so no one has retired from us which is good news here. Continue to send to the draft. We're going to go through the draft, we're going to go through the reset stage and the free agency this video. Alright let's enter the NHL entry draft. Where are we picking first overall here I believe. We do have a first overall pick. So we're picking 22nd so that's not too too bad. So let's just send to our pick pretty much, I mean send to pick 22nd and let's see what is available in the first round for us here. So we have a lead medium offensive defenseman, we got a goalie. We did scout a lot of goaltenders here and we got a bunch last year which is interesting to me. Here it looks really good to me though. Offensive defenseman, scout rank 19, 48 games played, he only had a goal in those 48 games. BCBCBD on defense which is in the greatest. He likes to cycle, he likes to pinch. Similar style Larry Murphy so that's pretty cool as Larry Murphy did play for the Pittsburgh Penguins. NHL estimated time of arrivals four years. Interesting stuff. Looking at Ty Ness here, 34 games played, he had a pretty good, a decent safe percentage. Not the greatest rating, strengths, glove hand angles, break away, weakness, stick usage, rebound control and blocker hand, and so ETA five years, similar style Corey Crawford. I think I'm going to go with Mika, oh don't know what I did there. We're going to go with Mika Kaleitinen, he's 19, or no he's not 19, he's 18, he's an offensive defenseman. He has pretty good ratings here, strengths, balance, quickness, passing ability, weakness, foot speed, defensive, consistency and block control, but like he can work on that especially with time of arrival four years. I like that he has a similar play style to Larry Murphy, and I don't really see anyone else that I really like here. Maybe this guy's decent, three years for his ETA, Dimitri Korolev, he's 18, he's a left winger, but we do need defensemen. I think I'm going to go with him and hopefully, I don't know if we have a second round pick, but if this guy's still available, we can pick him up then. But we're going to take Kaleitinen and we will sim to our next pick, which is 115. So I have a very good feeling that that play we were looking at is no longer there, but we will see. He is nowhere to be found, so I didn't know we had to pick this late. So we got elite guys here, we got a top four to defensemen, 69 games played, 15 goals, 14 assists, he's a two-way defenseman, ETA five years, looking at goal-tending. Like again, we don't really need goal-tending. He did not have a good year at all. This guy looks good, Miguel Terigny, strengths, heavy slap shot, mobility, foot speed, weaknesses, offensive consistency, laxus size and grit. He is 5'8". So he is a small guy, NHL, ETA four years, so that's not a bad looking guy there. He has some pretty good stats there. I think we're going to go with Miguel, let's go for a make-pick. Make-pick, there we go. We got another pick in the same round I believe here. We got Philon, starter, didn't have the greatest season within 88 save percentage. He has some decent stats here, five years ETA, scroter, yikes. Aiden Dilla, my god, Aiden looks pretty good. A top four defenseman, he's a two-way D. He had a pretty decent year last year. He only has one weakness, which is his offensive consistency, which we're fine with. This might be a little bit of a steal here. We're going to take him and see what he progresses to. Pick 177 here, this is the next round. Thomas Ludstrom looks pretty interesting to me. He had an 8.56 last year, which isn't great, maybe not actually. Calvin Fane looks pretty interesting. I know he's a 7th D, we're looking pretty far and above here. He had 17 games played, he's a minus 7 in those 17 games, but I like the stats here of the shooting puck skill sense, skating, the only bad thing he has is defense, which he's an offensive defenseman. We don't really need another offensive defenseman, that's the thing. This guy looks pretty decent, not too bad ETA's four years. We'll take him, Pinchuk, why not? Pick two-way here, we got a lot of picks here. Setaguchi's still available here, and I kind of just want to take him because he's still available. He's dropped this low. He's a hybrid goaltender, 6-1. He ain't the tallest for a goaltender. In since that game's played, a 903 save percentage, which isn't bad, NHL ETA is five years. I think we're going to go with Setaguchi and see how that works out. We have a lot of goaltenders in the system now, so we honestly hope that one of them work out for us. But we made one, two, three, four, five picks this draft, so not too bad. Hopefully those guys do work out for us. Now it's time to get to the resetting stage, and we have to reset our head coach, is what it looks like. So it's a recenter coach. I mean, the players love him. He's at an A overall, so he's got to be good. So we'll worry about the coaching staff in a bit. We have contracts to sign here pretty much, and this is what we're looking at. Evgeny Melkin is the big contract we do want to sign. And in my opinion, I kind of want to bring him back and try to trade him away. So let's see how much he wants. He wants one year at 8.1. That isn't bad, to be honest. I'm fine with signing him on a one-year deal. We'll get him till he's 36. We'll give him 8.2. Let's see if Gino signs back, and we'll see what are the teams at. Maybe we keep him for the year. Maybe we trade him away. I think it's smarter to trade him away, try to get something for him while he's still of value. Ricardo Raquel would be an interesting signing to get back. We need to sign Chris LaTang, which I would love to bring him back. Let's see if we can get him for two. Let's do one year at six mil. Another aging guy. Maybe try one more year to win it with him. Eric Stahl would be another guy that would be great to bring back. I could do a one-year deal at 3.125, no problem. Brian Rust, another guy I would like to sign. He's 30. He wants three years. Again, this is the guy we can get him free agency. I kind of want to test my luck with free agency this year. So it might be a mistake to get rid of him, but we'll see. Teddy Bluger, any big names out here. Kasperi Kaepernan is a guy I would love to bring back. My God, he wants a lot. Five years, we'll have him till he's 30. I think this is the guy we can definitely bring back for that long. And for that dollar amount, like 5.7 isn't bad. Let's see if we could do three years at 5.5 flat. Let's see what Cappy thinks about that. Jared McCann is another guy I would love to bring back. One year, 1.925, yeah, that's not bad. Joseph, oh boy, what's this guy gonna want? Okay, not much, you know what? I think I'm gonna lock him up while I can. For a steal of a price, we'll give him eight years at three mil. This guy is our future defenseman. We'll give him eight years at three mil. Let's see if he takes that. Anyone else that needs contracts that are big name, not there, goal-tending-wise, no, okay, goal-tending-wise, no, so let's simulate a day, let's see who accepts or declines. Ooh, wow. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay, whatever, that's a coach he accepts. Coach accepts, cool. Coach accepts, cool. So Eric Stoll is coming back. Chris Letang is coming back. Evgeny Malkin is coming back. Jared McCann is coming back. Kasperi Kappenin is coming back. Pure Oliver Joseph, that is a steal of a contract. He is now signed up long-term with the Pittsburgh Penguins, so that is absolutely huge to get him for eight years at just, I think, three mil, it was. So now, let's see how much cap we have to work with here, and if we want to sign a guy like Ricardo Raquel. Now, we could sign a guy like Ricardo Raquel, or we could let him walk and try to get a superstar free agency. I'm kind of fine with letting him walk. He's 29, he wants five years. If I wanted to sign him for one year, if he accepts for like 5.8 at one year, that's a steal, in my opinion. I doubt he'll accept that, but we'll see that. Brian Rust, again, is a guy that I think we can just get back a free agency. He wants three years. I don't want him until he's 33, if I'm gonna be totally honest with you. Well, wait on Brian Rust, if anything. Mark Jankowski, like contracts like this, those are depth guys that I'm fine bringing back for that cheap. We'll get back to Anson's there. Teddy Bluger, how much does he want? That is a lot, in my opinion. I know he's only 27. He's a top nine forward. That's a guy that we can easily replace. I'm gonna release him. Rootwheel, what is he looking at? Again, a guy that we can easily replace. I'm not gonna give a 78 overall. That much money. Ricola, not a problem. Sam Lafferty, not a problem. Again, these are just depth pieces that we're just bringing back onto the team pretty much for very cheap, which I am 100% okay with. We could probably wait on Anson's there. These guys, we can probably just qualify those guys. Not a big deal. I'm just seeing if there's any other big names that we need to bring back. We'll give Lindgren a contract. I don't think, ooh, Jan Kelski, no, we sent. Okay, so let's simulate another day here. Advance a day. Ricard Raquel is coming back. Okay, so like I said, if we can get him for one year at 5.8, I believe it was, that's not bad. So Ricard Raquel is coming back with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Ricola's coming back. Lafferty's coming back. All these guys should be coming back. So that is good to see. So Brian Ross is a guy again. I don't think we're gonna bring him back for that much. Again, I want to go into free agency with at least 10 mil. If we were to sign him, we'd have just under 10. But I don't think we really need him. Looking at our centers, let me just do it this way around actually, okay? So our centers, we got one, two, three, four. If you get rid of Malkin, McCann's our fourth liner. So that's okay. Left wingers, we have one, two, three. Right wingers, we have one, two, three. So we're short on the wing. Defensemen, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, which is good. We could probably get better on that. We're probably looking for a better goaltender this season as well, in all honesty. But let me go qualify all these guys that need to be qualified. And I think for the most part, we're heading into free agency just looking for new guys like Traum and why did I not offer him a contract? We'll offer Traum in a contract. Yannick Weber, I would love to bring back, but not for that price. He's a guy that we can just easily replace for cheaper. We'll qualify these guys, because that is what RFAs are for. There's no use in really signing them. We'll just qualify them. So let me do that real quick. All right, so all these guys are now qualified, which is good. Again, Brian Ross, man, I don't plan on bringing him back. We should probably just release him. He had a good run with this team. Again, I feel like we could get a better guy to replace him. And guys, look at it this way. We also have Malcolm who we're looking to move where we can bring in some set pieces with him. It'd be nice to try to win another year with him, but I think the time of the Gino era with the Pittsburgh Penguins has come up. So yeah, Zach Traumann has accepted. That is good to see. Just wanna go over this one more time, see if we're fine with letting go who we're letting go. We haven't offered this guy a contract. We might as well just offer him a contract. And everyone else is good. I think we'll wait for the rookies that we just drafted. Maybe we'll sign this guy. And yeah, he was our first overall. We'll sign him as well. And the rest of the guys can just chill there. Goal-tending wise, we'll sign him. We drafted him. And see how much these guys want to offer them a contract too for the league men, which is fine with me. And we are good to go. All right, so that is the resign stage. It's gonna be interesting to see what free agency has to bring us. It's gonna be interesting. So here we go. First day of free agency. And who are we able to look for here? That's the big thing I wanna see. Who are the big names? John Klingberg, 29. That would be huge to our back end. We got Morgan Riley here as well, who is a year younger, wants less as well. Seth Jones, who is a year younger than Riley. We got Brayden Point out there. We got Brock Besser. They are some big names. Alex Ovechkin is hitting free agency. So he is no longer a Washington capital. We got Dominic Kubelik. So it's gonna be interesting to see who we wanna get. The big names here, man. Mika Zabinajad is on the board. Colton Perreco. So a lot of good defensemen. And Colton Perreco looks like a valuable option if we wanna go with a defenseman and get a forward. So that's gonna be interesting to see what we wanna do. He is 29. I wouldn't mind signing him for like a two year deal, three year deal at that price. So let's see what we really need before we go crazy in free agency and try to sign whoever we want, right? So cap space, we have 10 mil available on cap. So that could be a Colton Perreco and a decent forward if you wanna look at it that way. Maybe we'll be able to keep Gino. Let's see. So looking at centers here, it'd be Crosby, Melk and Granlin stall, okay? Left wing, we have two left wingers. So that's one, two, three, four. We could play Jan Kowski on the side. We could play 10 of on the other side. So our wingers would be one, two, three. So we can get a right winger and a defenseman possibly. So yeah, let's do that. Yeah, that sounds good. All right, good thinking. And we might be able to keep Gino unless we wanna go out and get a better goaltender. But I think it makes the most sense to go ahead and get Colton Perreco, for 5.6. If you look at the other defensemen that are available right now, they won a lot like John Klingberg wants to 13.3. Charlie McAvoy wouldn't be too bad as he is 24, but he wants eight mil. Dustin Bufflin 37 out of 88. Riley, I get that he wants 12 mil. We can't afford him. Hampus Lindholm is someone we can't afford, but I'd rather get a Colton Perreco. So let's go with a Colton Perreco, he's 29. It'd be nice to sign him for, ooh, four years is a bit too much. I think three years would be good. We'll give him three years at 5.7. I think that'll be a good contract. Whereas Kase, we can always sign him off. So Colton Perreco would be cool to have him on the team. Krystle Tang would have to move down to the second line, which I think is fine. We need a right winger, so who's available here? We've got Alexander Rajilov at a 91 overall. What kind of year did he have last year? Pretty good year last year. We could afford him if we really wanted to. We got Phil the Thrill, we got Bobby Ryan, Brian Rust. I think let's try and get Rajilov here. Sign him for a one-year deal. I don't know if we're gonna be able to afford both of these guys, but let's give Rajilov what he wants and let's see what happens, all right? So there's two players that could come to the Penguins. Hopefully they can come to the Penguins and we can get a decent-looking team this year. So Rajilov is not coming. He is going to the Florida Panthers. Very interesting to see there. So we need to go back in a free agency and try to find a winger that will fit our team here. Joe Pavelski available, 37-year-old. We got Nino Nita Ryder. It's probably the next valuable option there at 29. Nichuskin, man, this is tough. Left-wingers, you still got Ovechkin on the board. You got Johnny Goudreau on the board. Jaden Schwartz, wouldn't be a bad signing, actually. He has an unknown role, which is not the greatest. I guess he was injured last year. Don't know if I'm willing to take the risk on him there. Tanner Pearson, wouldn't be a bad contract, but 6.6 is a little out of our range. We could go ahead and take the risk on Jaden Schwartz. I don't know if that's the play. Look in here, Chris Tierney, 28, he's 86 overall. He could work on our team. He could play the left side. We need a right winger in all honesty. Vincent Trocheck at 28 wouldn't be too bad. We can throw him on the side there. So maybe we go Trocheck or Tierney. I'm kind of thinking Tierney just because he has that elite exact. He's a second line forward, which is probably where he'd play. Let's try and get Chris Tierney locked up. For that cheap, I don't think you can go wrong. Let's do a two-year. We haven't told he's 30, we'll do 2.2 and see how that works out with him. Now we're still banking on Colton Paraco accepting our offer, and that hurts. He is going to Arizona, so we lost out on our top defenseman that we thought was gonna come here. Let's see what defensemen are still available here. Justin Schultz. Oh man, okay. Dustin Bufflin's still there. Matthias Ekholm is still there. Man, wow, we really missed the ball here, hey boys? Maybe we go Ekholm here. Yeah, let's go Ekholm. He could play alongside Chris LaTang. I don't want him for four years. Let's sign him for a one-year deal. We'll give him 5.7. Let's see if he accepts for that. Hopefully he does. And if not, then I guess we were SOL, man. So hopefully we are able to sign him up. Chris Tierney has come into the Pittsburgh Penguins so that is huge news for us. And these are trades that we just don't want. And Matthias Ekholm has accepted our offer. So the team looks pretty well rounded is what I meant to say there, which is nice. So looking at the players we brought in, Chris Tierney is still at an 86, which is nice. So he's going to be our third line center. Grandland we can play on the wing, which is probably going to be the play. And then Eric Stahl, we still have. Jared McCann, we still have. Looking at Matthias Ekholm, we have the first pairing of Chris LaTang and Matthias Ekholm, which is going to be nice. And it's probably going to be a John Marino and Joseph pairing and then Pedersen and Haminix. So our defense is looking pretty good, if I have to say so. We still do a four mil of cap space. Now we could be smart and just save it or we can see what's left in free agency. And I kind of like that second option. What goals are available in free agency actually that we can maybe get for four mil? Mark Andre Fleury would be interesting to bring back to the team. Henrik Lunkwis is out there, Devon Dubnik. Oh man, if we can sign him, I think I'd be pretty happy with it. Bring back Mark Andre Fleury, get all nostalgic here. Casey DeSmith is now in free agency. He is now a starter. So I think if that doesn't work out, I might bring back Casey DeSmith and try to rehash what we had with him because now he is a starter. And he had a pretty good year last year. So maybe that's something we bring back if Mark Andre Fleury isn't interested in coming back at that dollar amount. So let's see what happens here with Mark Andre. If he does come back, that'd be great. If not, then all good. And Mark Andre Fleury is heading back to, or not heading back, he is going to the Columbus Blue Jackets, which that one hurts a little bit. So again, we still have four mil in cap space. I kind of want to see who's left. Goal-tending wise, doesn't look like there's much. Anton Forsberg, he's a starter. He wouldn't be a bad shout. Potentially they don't know. He's 28, that's the thing. I mean, we need a backup anyway, so I don't think this would be a bad signing. We'll sign him for two years at 800 and see how that works out. Sean Day would be interesting to sign here. He's 82 overall. He's a top four defenseman. He is only 24. I think I'm gonna try and sign him actually. Sign him for three years, see if he'll take the max we can give him. That would be an interesting signing. I think that's very cool that we waited this long to see that he was still available. And if he is, I think that's our free agency concluded. So let's see if these guys accept our offers. Sean Day has accepted, that is huge. So it's gonna be interesting to see how this guy progresses. These are the guys we qualified RFAs. And we are waiting on the goaltender Forsberg who we get, which is great. Was extremely happy to accept your offer. So not that our goaltending situation necessarily worked out, but it's looking better in my opinion. So looking at our goaltending situation here, we got Tristan Jari and we got Forsberg here. So it's gonna be interesting to see what Forsberg can do. Everything's unknown with him. He is an 83 overall. So we'll put him in for some preseason games. Maybe we found our new starter. I don't know. I just know that I wasn't happy with Tristan Jari last year. I don't think those two are gonna help. So maybe we get rid of, depending on how Forsberg turns out, get rid of Jari and try it and Malcolm and try to get a better net minor. But that's something we do for next episode because this episode was filled with a lot. So with that being said, we're gonna end here. Next video will be the start of next season pretty much. So get ready for that boys. Hopefully you guys like the moves we made. I think our team is looking pretty good. We've got some steals in free agency. So hopefully those guys work out. But yeah guys, next video we start year three and we'll see how this Pittsburgh Penguins team does and we'll see if Gino will be on the move or will continue to be at Pittsburgh Penguins.