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Penguins Update: Where We Stand Today

With nothing in particular to write about and curious about how our Penguins look at the present, I decided to compile an organizational depth chart. Kind of an on-the-fly glance at our prospective team.

According to CapFriendly.com, the Pens currently have a cap hit of $64,620,000, with $10,380,000 in available cap space. However, they don’t include Jake Guentzel and Carter Rowney—still technically on two-way contracts. Likewise, Brian Dumoulin and Conor Sheary—awaiting arbitration hearings—aren’t factored in.

Counting Guentzel and Rowney? We have $9,630,000 of available cap space by my unofficial tally, roughly the same figure recently published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

All players listed with the Baby Pens—with the exception of those signed by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton—are on two-way agreements. Their cap hits, which represent their pay at the NHL level, don’t count against our cap space.

The Baby Pens list may not include all players presently under contract at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

PENGUINS			BABY PENS
Player/Pos	Age	Cap Hit	Player/Pos	Age	Cap Hit
Center			Center
Sidney Crosby Evgeni Malkin Carter Rowney	29 30 28	$8,700,000 $9,500,000 $612,500	Dominik Simon Teddy Blueger Greg McKegg Thomas DiPauli Colin Smith**	22 22 25 23 24	$692,500 $705,000 $650,000 $742,500 NA
Left wing			Left wing
Jake Guentzel Carl Hagelin Scott Wilson Tom Kuhnhackl	22 28 25 25	$734,167 $4,000,000 $625,000 $625,000	Adam Johnson Garrett Wilson Tom Sestito Frederik Tiffels	23 26 29 22	$925,000 $650,000 $650,000 $742,500
Right wing			Right wing
Phil Kessel Patric Hornqvist Conor Sheary* Bryan Rust Ryan Reaves Josh Archibald	29 30 25 25 30 24	$6,800,000 $4,250,000 NA $640,000 $1,125,000 $675,000	Daniel Sprong Zach Aston-Reese Tom Kostopoulos Reid Gardiner Patrick McGrath Ryan Haggerty	20 22 38 21 23 23	$692,500 $925,000 NA NA NA NA
Left Defense			Left Defense
Brian Dumoulin* Ian Cole Olli Maatta Matt Hunwick Derrick Pouliot	25 28 22 32 23	NA $2,100,000 $4,083,333 $2,250,000 $800,000	Lucas Bengtsson Kevin Czuczman Chris Summers Jeff Taylor Jarred Tinordi	23 26 29 23 25	$705,000 $650,000 $650,000 $742,500 $650,000
Right Defense			Right Defense
Kris Letang Justin Schultz Chad Ruhwedel	30 27 27	$7,250,000 $5,500,000 $650,000	Frank Corrado Ethan Prow Zach Trotman	24 24 26	$650,000 $730,000 $650,000
Goal			Goal
Matt Murray Antti Niemi	23 33	$3,750,000 $700,000	Tristan Jarry Casey DeSmith Sean Maguire Filip Gustavsson	22 25 25 19	$630,833 $675,000 $705,000 $775,833
* Pending Arbitration			** Under contract with Baby Pens