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 | |||||
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