Washington Capitals Acquire Andrew Mangiapane in Trade

As we prepare for the 2024 NHL Draft, the Washington Capitals would acquire forward Andrew Mangiapane from the Calgary Flames.

NEWS | The Washington Capitals have acquired forward Andrew Mangiapane from the Calgary Flames for a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft (originally from Colorado).

— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) June 28, 2024

A week after the Caps made their first big move of the offseason when they traded goaltender Darcy Kuemper for forward Pierre-Luc Dubois, General Manager Brian MacLellan would continue to make moves as he would trade Colorado’s 2025 second round pick (from the Lars Eller trade) to the Flames for forward Andrew Mangiapane.

The Player

Mangiapane made his debut with Calgary during the 2017-18 season where he would play ten games, but would not record any points. Then during the 2018-19 season Mangiapane would play in 44 games for his rookie season and record eight goals and five assists for 13 points. He would then record 32 points in both the shortened 2019-20 (17g, 15a) and 2020-21 (18g, 14a) seasons. In what would be his first full NHL season, Mangiapane would play in all 82 games and record a career high 35 goals and 20 assists for also a career high 55 points.

Then in the past two seasons, Mangiapane would crack 40 points as he would record 17 goals and 26 assists in 2022-23, and 14 goals and 26 assists in 2023-24. Mangiapane would also be a combined +39 his past three seasons. Overall in 417 games played, Mangiapane has 109 goals and 106 assists for 215 points.

In the playoffs, Mangiapane has appeared in the playoffs three times with the Flames where he has played in a combined 27 games, and has recorded six goals and six assists for 12 points.

The Washington Capitals have acquired forward Andrew Mangiapane from the Calgary Flames for a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft (originally from Colorado), president and general manager Brian MacLellan announced today. pic.twitter.com/d3wrqYZyIC

— Capitals PR (@CapitalsPR) June 28, 2024

The Contract

Mangiapane will be entering the final year of a three year contract that he signed in the summer of 2022. His salary cap hit will be $5.8 million, and as part of the trade, the Flames did not retain any salary, so the Caps will be on the hook for the full amount during the 2024-25 season. Mangiapane’s deal also carries a Modified No Trade Clause where he needs to submit an 8 team no trade list. Mangiapane will be an unrestricted free agent when the 2024-25 season has concluded.

Washington has 18 players under contract for next year totaling $90.065 per @CapFriendly. Presumably one of those spots is filled by Shepard at $775K, so $90.84M for 19, or $6.36M in space with Backstrom LTIRed. Would be $11.61M with Oshie joining him.

— Ted Starkey (@TedStarkey) June 28, 2024

Overall Thoughts

Overall, I love this trade. Mangiapane is someone I’ve always liked on the Flames, and is someone who has also brought good fantasy value for those that do Fantasy Hockey. I can see that the change of scenery will be good for Mangiapane, and he is someone that you can plug in the middle six part of the lineup. I also wouldn’t be surprised if he gets some looks on the powerplay and penalty kill as well. I’m very interested to see how Spencer Carbery will utilize him this upcoming season.

Also, this goes without saying, but I’d probably expect Mangiapane to wear 88 this season, but we’ll see.

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