 All right, we are back continuing year three of the sim with the Pittsburgh penguins before we get into it. I'm just going to read a couple comments because today we're going to go through the trade deadline and I think we're going to make a blockbuster deal. So people in the comments, the one minute wrestler said to trade him speedy gaming the man who's been here since the start of the series says I think you should trade Malkin and a first or a third for Carter Hart or a big name goalie. If that does not go through then trade him for a starter with too fast his value would drop because he is older. So speedy saying to get it done right away. So let's look at our team real quick here. So we can afford to lose Evgeny Malkin if we really wanted to. We can get rid of him put Grandland up to the second line because that's where we could play and then maybe get a third line center in the trade deadline as well. But we could throw Eric Stahl up here. So really would look like bang bang Eric Stahl here and then put a fourth liner where he needs to be. That's pretty much what we might go for. But if we can get a better third line center that would be great. But for the time being I 100% agree that we do need a goal tender as my controller batter is low. Tristan Jarry just isn't it. I mean looking at 32 games played he has an 898 safe percentage. Maybe we make the trade now before trade deadline and then our trade deadline focus will be for that third line center. So you know what let's go out let's try to trade Gino. I kind of like the idea of getting Carter Hart but let's see what we can get here. So we got John Gibson over in Anaheim that value is way too high for my liking. Aaron Hill is interesting. Arizona can afford to lose a goalie. We can either go with Darcy Kemper or we can go with Aiden Hill who's 26. Which isn't bad. He's a starting goal tender elite. He doesn't have the greatest stats though. It's a good thing we checked that. He's at 1.32 for one year. Maybe that's someone we could pick up in free agency. I think we're going to skip on Aiden Hill. Interesting. I'm interested in this guy here. He's got a 901 save percentage of 3D games played. He's an elite goal tender which isn't bad. How many years left does he have? Two years. All right. So Buffalo is a decision we can make. I kind of like the look of that. I don't know if they'd be willing to trade him given that he's the only goal tender they have. Here we got Jacob Markstrom. Nothing good there. That's your Demkoza show but I'm still liking the guy in Buffalo. Carter Hurd would be interesting. I don't know if I really want to trade with the Philadelphia Flyers, you know, the big rivalry and all that stuff. But looking at Carter Hurd, he's 24. He's at 6.6 mil. He's had a really good year. So Carter Hurd could be the second choice. I'm still liking that guy up in Buffalo to be honest with you. I think we're going to try to go for him first if anything because I don't know. I think he is younger too. He's at a cheaper contract for the time being. The only good thing with Carter Hurd is he's already at 90 and we have him locked up for four years when he comes in. So it would be interesting. I just don't know. All right. Yeah. I think we're going to try for that guy over in Buffalo here. Again, he's 23. 901 save percentage isn't too great but how's Buffalo doing? They're doing decent to be fair. We haven't for two years so we would have to negotiate with him but I think I want to try for him. Again, he's only 23 so he can progress. He's 23. If we go look over at Carter Hurd, he is already I believe 25 or 26. 24. I mean he's only a year older. All right. You know what? I think we're going to go with Carter Hurd first. He's had the better stats too. So Carter Hurd, it is time to say goodbye to Genome Alkin. I think it's only fair. We've had him for so long. I guess we're going to have too many goalies so we have to get rid of a goaltender. No problem. We'll get rid of Forsberg. Yeah. We'll get rid of Forsberg. I think Tristan Jari will be a better backup for sure. Now Philadelphia would have too many people. Oh my God. All right. Let's look at their block here. Del Colcher. Philadelphia would be over the cap now. Oh my goodness. So I'm fine with retaining if we have to. How much do we have to retain here? We'll retain like 5% of his contract. And I don't think that's going to go through right away. So I think we're going to throw in a second and let's see if this goes through. So this is the trade we're proposing to the Philadelphia Flyers. Evgeny Alkin, his time in Pittsburgh is coming to an end. Anton Forsberg, who we just signed a free agency for two years and a second round pick of ours for Carter Hart and a Michael Del Cole. Let's see if this goes through. Trade rejected. The Flyers are totally unwilling to part ways the way you requested from us. So we're going to throw in a first round pick instead. Will this go through? No. Okay. First and a second. Do I dare to do it? Do I dare to do it? Let's see if this goes through here. Trade rejected. All right. And we're going to have to make a trade with the Buffalo Sabres. Carter Hart was a good show. But you know what? This guy in Buffalo is probably going to be just as good as Carter Hart. So we're going to take the chances with him. Alkin, one for one would definitely not go through. They need another skater. So I don't know if this would go through. I think we would have to throw in our second round pick. And I don't even know if that would go through at this point. But this is a trade we're proposing to the Buffalo Sabres. Alkin, a Jari, and a second for Lukanin and Quinn just for the skaters. I don't think this will go through. Let's see. Trade rejected. Your offer to us is filling needs we have with the values in there. So you know what? First round pick, I think we can get someone back that's a little bit better than Quinn. Maybe we go with a young guy here might as well. All right. Let's see if this will go through. It's Evgeny Malkin, Tristan Jari, and a first round pick for Lukanin and Benning. Benning is just a top six guy. He's going to be a depth defenseman for us. We haven't for two years at 2.1. So if we have to get rid of him, we will. But let's see if this will go through. No, not even. All right. So let's get rid of him at Benning. At this point, we're just looking for a goaltender, man. You know what? They don't want our first. We'll give them a first and a fifth. Let's see if this goes through. So Malkin, Jari, a first and a fifth for Lukanin, and I'm going to go put that defenseman back. And if I'm seeing that goaltender's name wrong, I apologize. I'm pretty bad with names if you couldn't tell. All right. Let's see if this will go through. Malkin, Jari, a first and a fifth for Lukanin and Matt Benning. No, not even, dude. I'm interested to see if this will go through. We're going to retain 50% of Geno's contract. We're getting rid of a first, a second, and a fifth this year for Carter Hart and Michael Del Cole. Tristan Jari is also on his way out. Let's see if this goes through. Not even. I got one more idea. I don't suggest doing this as well. We're going to get rid of our other second as well. So a 20-23 first and second and a 20-24 second round pick along with Tristan Jari and Malkin for Carter Hart and Michael Del Cole. Will this go through? There it is. All right. Bargain. Like a lot. Not a bargain. We paid a lot for Carter Hart. I think we needed to make the move that we made. Malkin's time in Pittsburgh is now done. He's playing for our rivals in Philadelphia. I know some of you Pittsburgh Penguins fans aren't going to like that, but it needed to be done, guys. And now we have a starting goal tenor, which is just great, and we need to call someone up here. We'll call up Desher. And now we still have someone else, so we need to get possibly a third line center. But we'll see. And now let's edit these lines here, see what we can do. So Granlin up on that line and then Stahl there. And then Del Cole possibly. Is there anyone else that's scratched? Sam Lafferty. Let's put Michael Del Cole in, substitute on all lines. And let's see if we can get a plus one here somehow. So yeah, we can get a plus one. So the new forward lines, the first line stays intact with Gensel Crosby and Raquel. That stays intact because of what will happen in Granlin and Zuckerman. Now the bottom six is where it changes. We got Tanev, Jan Kalski and Tierney, McCann, Stahl, and Del Cole. So if we can get a better third line center, sure. If not, I'm kind of content with the forward core that we do have. And then the big name for us is Carter Hart is now our starting net minder. I'm excited to see what he can do in Pittsburgh. He was doing great over in Philadelphia with a 9-10. So Gino now gone, but Carter Hart now our starter with Forsberg still being our backup who's had a decent year as a backup for us to be fair. So that trades out of the books. I know that took a while. Now it is time to start simulating. But before we do that, we have to go do something else as well, actually. So Crosby still has the C, Latanxels, and we have to give someone else the A here. And in all honesty, I'm thinking we give it to a guy like Eric Stahl. So let's give it to him. Guy with experience and wisdom. We'll give it to him. So let's continue the simulation here. Let's see how we do in our first month with our new starting net minder in Carter Hart. 5-2 win, 2-1 win. There we go. This is what we like to see. And it's 3-game win streak here. And we're winning games here, boys. I do not regret the trade so far. So that's good to see. Let's keep it up. So after one month, we are now 30, 15, and 5. We are sitting second in the metro. The Flyers are down in fifth. We are four points behind the Islanders. Same amount of games against leading the team in points in 50 games. I want to take a look at my boy Carter Hart, how he did. He went down to an 88, but that's fine. He's a 9-16 now, played a lot of games that stretch there. So good for Carter Hart. Do not regret the trade. He picked us up a lot of wins. We're going to continue simulating. I think we're going to sim up to the trade deadline since we did make that big move this video. Yeah, we'll sim up to the trade deadline and then we'll possibly end it there. So let's see what happens here. So let's continue winning games here, boys. Again, our need for the trade deadline is maybe a third line center, but the team is winning games where they are, which is pretty nice. So a day before the trade deadline, we are 37, 18, and 6. We have 80 points, 5 behind the Islanders. They have a game in hand though. We have a comfortable lead in second. The Hurricanes are behind us with 73 points, but that's 73 points. Crosby leading the team with points as he should. Looking at the lines here, everyone's looking pretty happy here. Del Colt went up two overalls, which is nice to see. I wonder if we can... Okay, no, he's going to have to stay on the fourth line. The defense is looking great. No overalls went up or down. Carter Hart here, again, still out of 9.13, doing pretty good for us. Things you just like to see, and I'm 100% not regretting the trade at all. And you know what? We're going to go through the trade deadline in this video, and we'll stop it there. I don't want this to be too long of a video, but here we go. Trade deadline day. We are buyers, and we're just looking for that third line forward, really. I don't know if we're going to be able to make a deal, but if we can, that would be great. But looking at the names here, David Pasternak, my goodness. Let's go available. So we have Pasta Patches, Falk, Malkin is now available. So I guess the Flyers are looking to flip them. Interesting. David Savard, Sean Monaghan. So we're looking for a third line center. This is what we're looking for here. So let's see if anything comes up that we like, that we can afford at this point. Austasne is a name that I find really interesting. One year at 4 mil, we can afford them against the cap right now. What would we have to give up for him? Maybe we start getting rid of some of our ruckies, because I think this is a chance we have to win it here. So let's go ruckies skaters. Who are they interested in? Pooling they're interested in. I don't know if I'm interested in getting rid of him, but if we have to, we're trying to win now. I don't think this goes through one for one. We might have to get rid of someone else as well. Are they looking for anyone else that we're willing to get rid of here? We're throwing a fifth. We're not going to be drafting it all. Let's see if this goes through. Pooling, which it's going to hurt to get rid of him, he's only 22. He has high trade value. I can see him progressing to be something, but we're trying to win this year. So pooling in a fifth for Paul Stasne, we'll just go through, and it did go through. So the one move we needed to make, done. We don't have a lot of draft picks, but guys, we are looking pretty good here, and we're content. We look like Stanley Cup contenders even more now, but looking at our draft picks here, as Jamie Drysdale is heading to the Flames in exchange for Sean Monahan and Dustin Bufflin, interesting. But if we look at our draft picks here, guys, we only have two draft picks this upcoming offseason. I'm fine with it. If we're looking at our rookie depth men, it doesn't look great anymore, but you never know. These guys can progress to be something. They're all very, very young, and we're hoping that something comes out of these guys. But like I said, we're trying to win now, so that's really all that matters. So we're going to say here, we're done making trades, essentially. We're just going to, I'm going to update you guys when there are big blockbuster deals to be made, and then maybe we'll sim the rest of the month. We'll sim the rest of the season, whatever. That's not going to take long to do. So we're going to continue with this. I'll let you guys know if there's any big trade trades to happen here. The Flyers have made another splash here. They've traded Sean Couturier to the Rangers in exchange for a first round in 2023, and a first round in 2024 in Bruder. So they got a good two first rounders for Sean Couturier. I wonder what the Flyers are trying to do. I guess they're blowing it up. They're not really placed well in the Metro right now, so I don't know what that's about. But hey, thanks for taking Gino. We'll gladly take your starting netminder. All right, so that is the end of trade deadline. We already saw that trade. Couturier, we saw that trade as well. So those were the big moves. Ooh, let's see our lines before we do that. I forgot we made that move for Paul Statsny. So we have them on the third line, and I'm loving this, boys. I am absolutely loving this. They have Del Col in the third. I kind of want to put him there. Keep Del Col on the fourth line. So looking at the lines, the top six stayed the same here. Gensel, Crosby, Granland. Oh no, OK. I want it like that, sorry. The top six now does stay the same like that with Gensel, Crosby, and Raquel. Actually, maybe Raquel could be a better sentiment here. What's his face off rating here? 67 compared to Granland's 75. So yeah, we'll keep it like that. So the top six stayed the same. The third line now looking new and improved with Jared McCann, the acquisition of Paul Statsny and Brandon Tanev. I'm very excited to see what this line can do. And then the fourth line being Del Col, Jan Kelsky, and Kristie Ernie. So good luck on the forwards on defense. I guess I'm pretty content with this. We do have some good depth as well. Don't know why these got all changed around, but they did. But this is what the lines are looking like. They stay the same. And then we have Joel Emerson, too. Whoa, wait a second. Yeah, I forgot we signed him. So Edmondson is a guy that we can, again, depth defenseman. We've had injuries in the past that didn't work out. So we have Joel Emerson just sitting there waiting for us. We have Eric Stahl scratched for some reason. Hold up. All right, so now the fourth line is looking even better. Eric Stahl, Del Col, and Tierney. We absolutely love that. Yeah, so we'll keep it like that. So now looking at our depth, we have Emerson, Jan Kelsky, and Lafferty. And then in the mind is we have Sean Day, Ricola. But hopefully it doesn't get to that point where we have to call these guys up. But I'm liking our depth. This is the best team I think we've had in a while since we started my tenure here in Pittsburgh. So I have high hopes for this team. Let's simulate the rest of the month, see how we do. The Kings have fired their coach. That sucks. And we are on a two game losing streak. Let's simulate the rest of this month, see how this goes here. And we do pick up a win to end the streak there. So that's good. Let's keep winning games here, boys. Let's finish as high as we can so we can play not the greatest team in the first round and hopefully get by the first round here. So after this month, we are now 47, 24, and seven. We are three wins off of a 50 win a season, which is crazy. We are currently sitting in second. The Islanders are having themselves one hell of a season. And the Hurricanes are right behind us as well. So we have 101 points. Carlsby has two goals off of a 40 goal season, one point off of a 90 point season. So that is good to see from him. Looking at the lines here, all the overalls seem to be the same. Stasny went down by two, that's okay. Defense, everything's looking the same. And looking at Carter Hart here, 9-13. He's been holding that steady at the 9-10, 9-13 mark. So good for him. Last four games of the season. If we could win three of them to try to get a 51 season, that'd be great. First game against Toronto, we take a two-nothing win. All right, cool. We're two wins off of a 51 season. We lose to the Islanders. We gotta win out and we lose. So we're not gonna hit a 51 season. That is okay. We do hit a 49 one season. So we end off year three with a 49. What was the record? It's not showing now. We end off the third year with a 49, 26, seven record. We sit in second in the Metro, which isn't too bad. Carlsby did hit the 40 goal mark, did hit the 90 point mark. So good for him. And looking at the team, the guys are just ready for the playoffs. You can just tell here. Looking at Carter Hart, I think he did pick up that shutout there. He picked up a lot of shutouts at the end of the stretch there. He was at four before the trade deadline. He's now at seven, so good for him. He's at a 9-14 now. So we do have a good starting goal tender heading into the playoffs. That is the difference this time around. We don't have Gino this time around as well, but we had to make that move. So looking here, Carlsby ended up with a 90 point season, finished with 93 points. Gensel with an 85 point season. Raquel with 65. Kaepernan with 60. So pretty good stuff from the boys here. Looking at defense. Crystal Tang finished with 31. Ekoma 29. So not much points being produced from the defenseman, but that is okay with me. And I mean, we saw the stats of our goal tender here. He went 41, 24, and eight, seven shutouts. A 9-10 save percentage. Forsberg did pretty good one called upon in 11 games. He went eight, one, and one. No shutouts, but a 9-17, which is pretty good. Not much more you can ask for in a goal tender. Looking at the entire league, Stamkels finished with 106 points. Sagan with 103. Kane with 94. Kutra with 94. McKinnon with 94. Crosby finishing there with 93. Tidal with a Barkov who had similar stats. That is crazy. Barzels up there. Svetch is up there. Another year where we don't see Matthews or McDavid high up there. They both finished with 81 points. Interesting things to see. But anyways, let's continue the simulation here. See who we play first. And it is the Carolina Hurricanes who had a pretty similar record. They went 49, 28, and five. So this is gonna be an interesting playoff matchup. Looking at the playoff tree here. Who is everyone playing? So we got Pittsburgh and Carolina. The Islanders and the Devils. The Leafs in the Sands, the Battle of Ontario. And then the Panthers and the Lightning. And then in the West we got the Oilers and Canucks, the Ducks and Coyotes, the Blackhawks and the Stars. And then the Avalanche and the Jets. So pretty good first round matchup around the league. And a first round matchup for us. It's going to be interesting. Next video we start the playoffs. And before we do that, I'm gonna turn on injuries. So I remember now, cause I probably won't remember at the start of next video. It'll be too hyped to start the playoff round. So injuries are now on. Well guys that is it for today's video. Next video we start year three playoffs. Round one against the Carolina Hurricanes. Let's see what this Pittsburgh Penguins team can do.