Top 3 players Capitals should give PTO contracts to

#2 Anton Stralman

Anton Stralman is a right handed veteran defenseman. He was drafted 216th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh round of the 2005 NHL entry draft. He’s signed six contracts with a total value of $47,445,000 million. He has 293 points in 930 games played over a career that has spanned 15 seasons.

He also has 26 playoff points in 113 postseason games played. His last contract gave him a cap hit of $5.5 million as he played for the very team that eliminated the Caps last season, the Florida Panthers.

One form of payback is snatching up a defenseman. After all as the old saying goes, if you can’t beat him, sign him. What’s very strange according to Cap Friendly was that he was on the Panthers. But Hockey Reference tells me he also played for that clown show of a team in the Arizona Coyotes.

With the Coyotes, he had a career season as he scored eight goals and 15 assists for 23 points. That’s all good but his plus minus was a negative 16. He also did a good job staying out of the box with just 12 penalty minutes.

The Caps are already pretty stocked on defense so it’s highly unlikely they’ll sign a defenseman to a PTO.