Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
So. Ryan Callahan for on and off ice leadership?
For Kunitz money? Sure. I might even overpay him a bit for his leadership and give him close to Neal money, but that's a stretch.
So. Ryan Callahan for on and off ice leadership?
Here's my armchair attempt. Feel free to criticize:
(Maatta to LTIR)
Trade Adams to wherever Bylsma goes for a random prospect
Trade Scuderi to a team with young defense (Buffalo?) for a mid-round pick
Trade Niskanen's rights to COL/TBL/ANA for rights to McGinn/Connolly/Smith-Pelley
Re-sign our RFAs (Despres, Megna, Samuelsson, Sutter)
Re-sign Vitale, Sill, and Gibbons
Sign Ryan Callahan
CAPGEEK.COM ARMCHAIR GM ROSTER
CapGeek Armchair GM Roster
FORWARDS
Jamie McGinn ($2.300m) / Evgeni Malkin ($9.500m) / James Neal ($5.000m)
Chris Kunitz ($3.850m) / Sidney Crosby ($8.700m) / Ryan Callahan ($5.500m)
Beau Bennett ($0.900m) / Brandon Sutter ($3.000m) / Pascal Dupuis ($3.750m)
Jayson Megna ($0.850m) / Joe Vitale ($0.925m) / Brian Gibbons ($0.750m)
Zach Sill ($0.600m) / Adam Payerl ($0.627m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Simon Despres ($0.900m) / Kris Letang ($7.250m)
Paul Martin ($5.000m) / Robert Bortuzzo ($0.600m)
Philip Samuelsson ($0.605m) / Brian Dumoulin ($0.832m)
Scott Harrington ($0.589m) /
GOALTENDERS
Marc-Andre Fleury ($5.000m)
Jeff Zatkoff ($0.600m)
LTIR
Olli Maatta ($0.894m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $70,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $67,627,500; BONUSES: $615,833
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $2,372,500
That defense...
So. Ryan Callahan for on and off ice leadership?
Here's my armchair attempt. Feel free to criticize:
(Maatta to LTIR)
Trade Adams to wherever Bylsma goes for a random prospect
Trade Scuderi to a team with young defense (Buffalo?) for a mid-round pick
Trade Niskanen's rights to COL/TBL/ANA for rights to McGinn/Connolly/Smith-Pelley
Re-sign our RFAs (Despres, Megna, Samuelsson, Sutter)
Re-sign Vitale, Sill, and Gibbons
Sign Ryan Callahan
CAPGEEK.COM ARMCHAIR GM ROSTER
CapGeek Armchair GM Roster
FORWARDS
Jamie McGinn ($2.300m) / Evgeni Malkin ($9.500m) / James Neal ($5.000m)
Chris Kunitz ($3.850m) / Sidney Crosby ($8.700m) / Ryan Callahan ($5.500m)
Beau Bennett ($0.900m) / Brandon Sutter ($3.000m) / Pascal Dupuis ($3.750m)
Jayson Megna ($0.850m) / Joe Vitale ($0.925m) / Brian Gibbons ($0.750m)
Zach Sill ($0.600m) / Adam Payerl ($0.627m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Simon Despres ($0.900m) / Kris Letang ($7.250m)
Paul Martin ($5.000m) / Robert Bortuzzo ($0.600m)
Philip Samuelsson ($0.605m) / Brian Dumoulin ($0.832m)
Scott Harrington ($0.589m) /
GOALTENDERS
Marc-Andre Fleury ($5.000m)
Jeff Zatkoff ($0.600m)
LTIR
Olli Maatta ($0.894m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $70,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $67,627,500; BONUSES: $615,833
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $2,372,500
That defense...
Isn't Callahan also a quiet leader? A player who leads by the example on the ice. A hard worker. You know, similar to Sid (except much, much less skilled of course). I remember Brad Richards saying after the trade that Callahan wasn't a big talker in the room and they have guys who can replace his leadership. Don't think he's the type of presence Pens need on the room (on the ice he certainly would be great addition) necessarily, but like JR said in the press conference they need to bring in more vocal guys to the room.
Callahan was for the most part a lead-by-example captain rather than a master orator, so it’s not as if the Blueshirts must confront a void in their time of need.
“Things that have to be said will still get said,†Richards said. “I’m not taking anything away from Cally, but he was pretty young and not that vocal.
Use the cap space to sign a cheap, solid defenseman. Niskanen's rights won't come CLOSE to getting McGinn, DSP, or Connolly. We're looking at a 4th, 3rd at best if we trade his rights.
No man, describing what Neal does in the regular season to create room for Malkin is not an accurate account of what happens come playoff time. Malkin started to catch fire AFTER he stopped playing with Neal. Aside from a couple of games in these playoffs, any line Neal was on, was ass.
Neal has never been a money guy for this team in the playoffs. I looked at the stats before this years playoffs and pointed that out, then Yohe, I believe, pointed out the same thing after the playoffs with updated stats: He has scored all of his goals in 7 games. That means he has gone 31 playoff games without a goal. That's disturbing, albeit an accurate representation of his failure to show up come playoff time.
He isn't a playoff performer. Period. Some may not want to hear it, but it's the truth.
I find it comical many of the same people who want to hold onto Neal because he scores a lot in the regular season, want to deal Letang instead. Letang, including this years playoffs, has been a big game player and was an integral part of their cup run. He has proven he can step up his game in the playoffs, Neal never has. Yet people who want this team to stop collapsing in the playoffs want a playoff no show like Neal, over a proven playoff performer like Letang.
Where is the logic?
Neal has yet to step up in the playoffs, but all I hear is they need to keep him because he is a 40 goal regular season scorer. Again, when has this team ever struggled to score goals in the regular season in the Malkin and Crosby era?
Here's my armchair attempt. Feel free to criticize:
(Maatta to LTIR)
Trade Adams to wherever Bylsma goes for a random prospect
Trade Scuderi to a team with young defense (Buffalo?) for a mid-round pick
Trade Niskanen's rights to COL/TBL/ANA for rights to McGinn/Connolly/Smith-Pelley
Re-sign our RFAs (Despres, Megna, Samuelsson, Sutter)
Re-sign Vitale, Sill, and Gibbons
Sign Ryan Callahan
CAPGEEK.COM ARMCHAIR GM ROSTER
CapGeek Armchair GM Roster
FORWARDS
Jamie McGinn ($2.300m) / Evgeni Malkin ($9.500m) / James Neal ($5.000m)
Chris Kunitz ($3.850m) / Sidney Crosby ($8.700m) / Ryan Callahan ($5.500m)
Beau Bennett ($0.900m) / Brandon Sutter ($3.000m) / Pascal Dupuis ($3.750m)
Jayson Megna ($0.850m) / Joe Vitale ($0.925m) / Brian Gibbons ($0.750m)
Zach Sill ($0.600m) / Adam Payerl ($0.627m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Simon Despres ($0.900m) / Kris Letang ($7.250m)
Paul Martin ($5.000m) / Robert Bortuzzo ($0.600m)
Philip Samuelsson ($0.605m) / Brian Dumoulin ($0.832m)
Scott Harrington ($0.589m) /
GOALTENDERS
Marc-Andre Fleury ($5.000m)
Jeff Zatkoff ($0.600m)
LTIR
Olli Maatta ($0.894m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $70,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $67,627,500; BONUSES: $615,833
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $2,372,500
That defense...
I don't like that 4th line. Need some toughness and bangers there
I have no clue how people can watch these playoffs and not see that our supporting cast is ****ing terrible. Neal, our highest paid winger, hasn't done anything approaching the level of play of Williams or Saad. Brown and Bickell play their roles far better than Kunitz.
To execute the type of change this team needs up front, you need to move valuable pieces.
like I said before, I'd wait for another playoff under a new coach before moving guys like Neal or Letang.
I agree that Kunitz changed his game for the worse, but that happened because he's old and banged up, and that contract already looks bad anyway. if they could somehow unload it I'd be all for it.
Do we know of any "vocal" leaders we could acquire?
Do we know of any "vocal" leaders we could acquire?