Capitals Deadline transactions

[Knut]

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To Washington

John Merrill
2.75 M

To Buffalo

Calgary 2nd 2016
Andre Benoit

added a guy having a down year with bit potential
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To Pittsburgh

2016 3rd Round Draft Choice (car)
2017 4th Round Draft Choice (was)

To Washington

Matt Cullen
Stephen Weiss
6 M

added some Cheese room to help facilitate deadline moves
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To Washington

Teemu Pulkinnen

To Nashville

Paul Stastny
7.75 M

clearing out salary for 16/17 and adding a guy with a high ceiling
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To Anaheim

Matt Cullen
1.51M

To Washington

2017 4th (anaheim)

UFA out for best offer
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To St Louis

Dimitri Jaskin

To Washington

2016 2nd (Pittsburgh)

Get a top 40 pick in the upcoming draft for a guy IMO with a 3rd line upside
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To San Jose

Brad Richardson
3.92 M

To Washington

2016 3rd (WIN)

Another UFA out the door
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In:

Jon Merrill
Stephen Weiss (UFA)
Teemu Pulkinnen
Pittsburgh 2nd 2016
Winnipeg 3rd 2016
Anaheim 4th 2017

Out:

Paul Stastny
Andre Benoit
Dimitri Jaskin
Brad Richardson (UFA)
2016 2nd (CAL)
2016 3rd (CAR)
2017 4th (WAS)

Cleared out 7.75 in additional cap space for next season. Upgraded all three picks and added two young pieces that are at worst middle roster players.

We now go into the off-season with 39M in cap space (pre RFA) and have been able to add 5 2nd rounders between picks 30 and 40 as well as adding to the depth of the middle of the roster. We are hoping we can put the cap and these good value picks to positive use.

[simmer2]

Good work with the squad you have Hesla. It takes time to turn around a team and you've made some solid moves that will give you a lot of flexibility in the off-season to make moves.

Love all the activity.