Tamger will be gone and Sheary
Hags will probably get a Home discount or small 2years deal.. imo Hags will still be will the Penguins for 2-4 years. I would love for him to stay for cheap deal..
I see Sheary gone and Letang gone for sure no matter what ..
Rutherford was trying hard to trade Letang in December.. Rutherford will try again and get a decent return and go from there..
It’s about two -three that can handle top minutes.. I hope Rutherford can get Jacob Trouba or someone who think can fairly be put on the second pairing spot for the Penguins.
If Penguins wanna succeed further with the great good D core they have its best to remove injury prone Letang. It’s many reasons to move Letang regardless the return. It’s asinine to trade great young defensemen with great upside to keep a 7mil guy like Letang.. He done good for the organization but it’s time to move on. Sorry . Letang is injury waiting to happen again next season that will leave him IR for 25+ games..
I have faith in Shultz,Rig , Dumoulin and Määttä to get the job done with one or two additions..
I wouldn’t mind seeing Pedan and Tindori getting there feet wet .. Trotman as well..
1) We are not getting Trouba period. Do you even understand what you are talking about in suggesting we are going to trade for a young guy who could be an all-star #1D on a team that is entering its phase of being perhaps the most prominent Cup contender over the next 5 years?
2) I'm not against trading Letang if we replace him with someone who could fill his spot (like signing John Carlson as a UFA). But to dump him just for the sake of it, and then enter a phase of of having no #1 kind of Dman when we're already stacked up front?
3) Schultz could end up leaving when his contract is up, and we would be screwed if we lost both without a legitimate PP/QB and top 1-2 Dman coming back.
We are going to be losing as FA's or trading: Hunwick, Sheary, Hagelin. That's $10M in cap space with a Cap that is going up $3-4M (at least) every season. That's more than enough to cover both Guentzel, Murray, Rust and whomever else we need to extend, and then some IMO.
What you are suggesting sounds more like video game GM'ing rather than pragmatically thinking about how to manage the roster of a team that wants to maximize its competitiveness over the next 4-year Cup windoow.