#3 Jonas Siegenthaler
Jonas Siegenthaler is a young defenseman with a bright future. The restricted free agent carried a cap hit of $714,166. He is expected to make north of one to two million.
Siegenthaler came into the league as a 21 year old in 2018-19 and played in 26 games. He recorded four assists, was a +6, had 10 penalty minutes, and averaged 14:09 of ice time. He also had 44 blocked shots and 31 hits. Siegenthaler got a lot of playing time down the stretch after Michal Kempny was injured. In the playoffs, Siegenthaler averaged 16 minutes of ice time.
The next season Siegenthaler played in 64 games mostly on the third pair. He had two goals and seven assists for nine points. He also was a +11, had 43 penalty minutes, had 105 blocks and laid out 51 hits while averaging 15:44 of ice time.
Would the Caps trade him? Highly unlikely but we’ve seen what happened when they tried to take on Chandler Stephenson’s contract and failed. Now Stephenson had a season where he thrived in Vegas and the Caps bit the dust with that one.
Oh well. There’s nothing you can do about the past. But in the present, Jonas Siegenthaler is one contract you’d like to extend for next season. Hopefully there won’t be any arbitration needed.