The Rob Scuderi Complaint Club (Keep it all here)

[AjaxTelamon]

Time to play the hindsight game:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1462799&highlight=scuderi

I don't believe I had any posts in that thread, but I do remember being happy with the signing at that time.

I was fine with the deal then because it SHOULD have meant Nisky and Orpik were both flipped for assets, and then Despres should have been a regular that year. But alas, there was no plan, there were no assets, and there was no Despres.

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

On other sites I still read comments defending this abysmal player.

Maybe we should change our tactic's here.

If other people see value in Scuds...where there's smoke, there's fire. We should be pumping up his value to anyone and everyone. This way he isnt a castoff/cap dump .. he is a valuable asset.

Could happen, right?

 

[Kristopher Letang]

If Scuderi was twice as good, he'd still suck. Trade him for a bag of cookies for Kessel.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Makes 3.5 for 2 more years.

Is old and slow. A #6 or #7 getting paid low end #4 money

Worse defensemen on the team. Yes Lovejoy is better

 

[Speaking Moistly]

If Scuderi was twice as good, he'd still suck. Trade him for a bag of cookies for Kessel.

Scuderi's parting gift can be to knock Cheesesteak off the wagon.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Time to play the hindsight game:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1462799&highlight=scuderi

I don't believe I had any posts in that thread, but I do remember being happy with the signing at that time.

Everything I say in there was about trading Orpik and/or Niskanen

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Everything I say in there was about trading Orpik and/or Niskanen

Yeah. Would've been nice to get some big ol assets for those two.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

I propose that from now on, he is referred to as Rob Spumoni.

 

[AjaxTelamon]

Everything I say in there was about trading Orpik and/or Niskanen

I lived that whole year in fear we were going to give Orpik the contract the caps gave him. Anything that mitigated the chances of that seemed like a heck of a good idea to me.

 

[Ogrezilla]

I lived that whole year in fear we were going to give Orpik the contract the caps gave him. Anything that mitigated the chances of that seemed like a heck of a good idea to me.

if we can find the threads from before we signed him but the rumors were out, I was pretty anti Scuderi. Though not because I thought he was as bad as he turned out to be, but because I just didn't want to add any D and I thought he was a bad partner for Letang. But when we signed him, I thought he would at least be serviceable, and I thought it guaranteed we were trading someone on D Sometimes I'm pretty smart.

Then go to last year and I was absolutely pumped about Ehrhoff. I was calling it the signing of the off-season. Woops

 

[Coastal Kev]

Time to play the hindsight game:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1462799&highlight=scuderi

I don't believe I had any posts in that thread, but I do remember being happy with the signing at that time.

Page 11 by me

"He's old and getting older. Kunitz, Dupuis , Adams and Scuds, you think you are winning a cup with these guys getting crusty? And they are all signed for multiple years!"

 

[joeyjake5]

Why is scuds still on this team. The answer is simply inept management. here are 3 possible scenarios as to why.

1. This management still thinks scuds is an integral part of the D. MJ calls scuds his shutdown D and dressed for all games last season. This management team is the same that trades SD for Big Ben. This tells you something about how bad their evaluation process is.

2. They think they could trade him. That's impossible. As I said before, no contending team and no rebuilding team wants this D on their team. Oh yes you could make a very one-sided trade to get rid of scuds, like two #2s, Bennett or Sprong and retain 1/2 half of his salary.

3. JR tried to buy him out but upper management blocked this move. Didn't Lemy at one point say he wanted to honor all player contracts.

I gotta believe its #3, otherwise this is one of the dumbest management teams of all times for holding on to this bad D.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Nobody wants Scuds. Not even this team. Buying him out is a last case scenario, because it doesn't do much to alleviate the cap issue Scuds presents.

I'm sure it's a "play him and try to increase his value for an early season move" situation.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Nobody wants Scuds. Not even this team. Buying him out is a last case scenario, because it doesn't do much to alleviate the cap issue Scuds presents.

I'm sure it's a "play him and try to increase his value for an early season move" situation.

I could see him being bought out next season if they can't find a taker. Players like Maatta and Perron will be getting a raise, and players like Plotnikov could be. It would only effect the cap for 2 years at that point.

 

[Darth Vitale]

I think Scooods will soon become the new Adams.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Why is scuds still on this team. The answer is simply inept management. here are 3 possible scenarios as to why.

1. This management still thinks scuds is an integral part of the D. MJ calls scuds his shutdown D and dressed for all games last season. This management team is the same that trades SD for Big Ben. This tells you something about how bad their evaluation process is.

2. They think they could trade him. That's impossible. As I said before, no contending team and no rebuilding team wants this D on their team. Oh yes you could make a very one-sided trade to get rid of scuds, like two #2s, Bennett or Sprong and retain 1/2 half of his salary.

3. JR tried to buy him out but upper management blocked this move. Didn't Lemy at one point say he wanted to honor all player contracts.

I gotta believe its #3, otherwise this is one of the dumbest management teams of all times for holding on to this bad D.

Toronto was supposedly willing to take him on, but he wouldn't waive his NTC to go there.

My question is, would you rather be rid of the last two years of Scuderi's contract or have Kessel with salary retained for the duration of his contract? I'm honestly not sure.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

I think Scooods will soon become the new Adams.

Only much more expensive.

 

[plaidchuck]

A buyout isn't happening, and I think they're too "classy" of an organization to bench him or send him to the ahl, which may not even be possible due to an NMC.

 

[steveg]

A buyout isn't happening, and I think they're too "classy" of an organization to bench him or send him to the ahl, which may not even be possible due to an NMC.

Why do you think a buyout won't happen next summer?

 

[joeyjake5]

Buyouts are used to get rid of players who are bad and with bad contracts. Fits scuds to a T. Other teams use it, why not the pens. If scuds were bought out this past June, the pens would have $2MM more in cap space right now.

Will he be bought out next June, probably not. The pens management team for whatever reason is too stupid to rid the team of this underperforming D.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Well if they think they can get by for a year (and try to trade him) then waiting one year will cut the buyout penalty from 4 years to 2 years. In general though, I just assume they believed they could trade him.

 

[joeyjake5]

I know or hope the pens management team would hope scuds would disappear. But can any one on this board speak to the merits of any other team trading for scuds when at least 95% of this board thinks scuds as crap. I would rather have Adams at 700,000 than scuds at $3.3MM

 

[Ogrezilla]

well Toronto accepted him in a trade, but he wouldn't waive.

 

[SprootsMasterFlex]

well Toronto accepted him in a trade, but he wouldn't waive.

Is there any definitive proof of this? I heard the same thing but it was just hearsay. If this is true, Scuds is dumber than I thought. The man will never be accepted by fans over here.

 

[Penguinator]

Is there any definitive proof of this? I heard the same thing but it was just hearsay. If this is true, Scuds is dumber than I thought. The man will never be accepted by fans over here.

Isn't this more of a HFboard thing tough? I remember someone saying that on Pens Facebook or Twitter Scuds wasn't nearly loathed as much.

If this is so then i would imagine other teams might think he has some value, if at a rather expensive price. He does bring experience, good on PK & would potentially be helpful to a bottom team young on D that needs to hit the cap floor for a couple of years.