Situation: Contending

Pre Free agency: Decline Luke Kennard's team option

Key free agents: None

Estimated Cap Space: -$27 million

• Trade Clarke and Aldama for Jakob Poeltl

• Trade a 2024 2nd round pick for Sasha Vezenkov

• Sign Landry Shamet to a 2 year league minimum contract with the 2nd year being non guaranteed

Notes:

• I used a 7 mill cap hold for their picks

• They make the trade for Vezenkov on draft day using the TPE created by trading Brooks last offseason before it expires in July

• They end up over the cap by roughly 36 million and 6 mill over the luxury line but short of the 1st apron by about 1.5 million

• They still have access to the TPE used by trading Adams until February

• They still have access to the taxpayers mle if they'd like to use it going forward