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Filling out a 4th line

How will the Pittsburgh Penguins round out their team for next season? Plenty of options to discuss, but also a salary cap to consider.

Using General Fanager projections (with the change made of demoting Tim Erixon and promoting Derrick Pouliot and Sergei Plotnikov) the Pittsburgh Penguins have just over $2.98 million in salary cap space for 2015-16. They have 7 defensemen and 2 goalies on the roster, both good enough to play. They 10 forwards on the roster, and need 2-3 more bodies to round it out.

Right now, for discussion purposes the team roughly looks like:

(The left side may change depending on what direction the Pens want to go, but that's more or less the picture, for discussions as of today at least.