Confirmed with Link: Danton Heinen | 1 year $1.1m

[OtherThingsILike]

Hard to get excited for. Better than nothing though. Maybe he finds a fit somewhere in the lineup and adds some offensive touch?

Is that hit fully buriable if he blows?

Yes, you can bury up to $1.125M of a player's cap hit this season.

 

[Zen Arcade]

We will strategically deploy Ritchie to the opposing team's favorite pre-game spots so he can eat up all the 'tater skins and, thus, demoralize our opponents.

"Slow start tonight for the Capitals, gotta wonder how much the lack of Buffalo Ranch Pizza Jammers at TGI Fridays factors in here."

 

[HandshakeLine]

Yes, you can bury up to $1.125M of a player's cap hit this season.

So Riikola can totally be buried, I suppose.

 

[TooManyHumans]

Seems to me the Pens are being smart and patient and have put the team in a position where they could go into the season with the team as currently constructed without it being a disaster but could also make a couple of moves (Zucker and Petts, maybe Jarry) to really improve the team if the right situation arises. Given where the team was heading into the off season and some of the absurd contracts given out so far I think they are in about as good of a position as I could have hoped.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

So Riikola can totally be buried, I suppose.

Riikola makes $1.15M, so all but $25,000 of Riikola is buried.

 

[Pens x]

Yes, you can bury up to $1.125M of a player's cap hit this season.

Can you start burying these contracts yet? How about do over?

 

[TooManyHumans]

Riikola makes $1.15M, so all but $25,000 of Riikola is buried.

I think he's worth the $25,000 just to give people something else to harp on.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I think he's worth the $25,000 just to give people something else to harp on.

Shit, Riikola's my hero, dude. He's literally getting paid to do nothing but stay in shape.

 

[TooManyHumans]

Shit, Riikola's my hero, dude. He's literally getting paid to do nothing but stay in shape.

I always thought being a LOOGY seemed like the best job in professional sports but Riikola might top that, especially with the new reliever rules.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Simon literally won't even be on the NHL team. Who are the Penguins going to waive to put him on the team?

That's the thing you're ignoring. He's so far down the depth chart that it would take multiple injuries for him to even get on the big league team. He's not a NHL player anymore, and they signed him to a 2-way contract and explicitly said that he's not a guarantee to make the NHL team.

Friendly bet? Simon makes the opening day roster and over the course of the season plays roughly 30% of his time on Sid's RW?

 

[TNT87]

Welcome to the Pens Danton.

 

[66-30-33]

Looks like Burke is letting Hextall run the roster and not interfering adding all these heavy hitters.

 

[Ryder71]

These signings make a lot of sense IF a decent sized trade is coming. I think MP or Zucker gets moved this summer.

 

[LOGiK]

Whatever signing. 4th line fodder preventing any young players getting into the lineup

Won't be saying this when the injuries decimate the team...

Like that is going to just stop happening this year?

 

[66-30-33]

These signings make a lot of sense IF a decent sized trade is coming. I think MP or Zucker gets moved this summer.

Zucker to Leafs for a 2nd and that Mikheyev guy.

 

[Peat]

Zucker to Leafs for a 2nd and that Mikheyev guy.

They don't have the cap to make that move.

 

[K Fleur]

Zucker to Leafs for a 2nd and that Mikheyev guy.

Somebody check Zucker's EA NHL21 player rating. That's how Dubas evaluates players and build his team.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

You must be youngen or have a short memory or something, but we'd be lucky to have Fedotenko. He'd increase the balls quotient significantly in our current forward group, and actually showed up in the playoffs.

Pepperidge Farms remembers when Feds broke his hand on Colby Armstrong's chin after absolutely dropping the guy

 

[Nakawick]

Sounds like Nick Spaling.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I'm happy with this one. Mentioned him a lot. Him and McGinn are good adds. Makes the team stronger defensively.

I'm pleased too. McCann and Tanev were good defensively last year, so these are good replacements for that at a lower cost. This bodes well for our PK..which we really needed help with. A new PK coach is in order as well. He was a weakness.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I think the lineup right now is:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Zucker-Malkin-Kapanen
McGinn-Carter-Heinen
ZAR-Blueger-Rodrigues

Which really doesn't look bad to me.

Looks a lot worse without Malkin. I have a bad feeling he'll miss like 40 games this year. Hopefully I'm wrong.

That being said there's a lot of room for improvement with our goaltending, and I feel both are capable of playing better than last year. So there's room to compensate for a worse lineup than last season.

Another consideration is that we didn't have Carter for most of the season though, so we get that privilege this time.
I would move Blueger up even when we're fully healthy down the middle, which I'm sure will only be a small portion of the games. Feel he's wasted as 4C. Use him as a left winger and give him more minutes. He has more to give.

Let ERod be 4C..maybe even Zahorna if he gets comfortable with it.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

He's this weird type of player whose name I'm sure I've heard, but have no recollection of him whatsoever.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Looks a lot worse without Malkin. I have a bad feeling he'll miss like 40 games this year. Hopefully I'm wrong.

That being said there's a lot of room for improvement with our goaltending, and I feel both are capable of playing better than last year. So there's room to compensate for a worse lineup than last season.

Another consideration is that we didn't have Carter for most of the season though, so we get that privilege this time.
I would move Blueger up even when we're fully healthy down the middle, which I'm sure will only be a small portion of the games. Feel he's wasted as 4C. Use him as a left winger and give him more minutes. He has more to give.

Let ERod be 4C..maybe even Zahorna if he gets comfortable with it.

Honestly I'm still fine with it even without Malkin. It's obviously not cup caliber, but you just need to survive until Malkin gets back.

I imagine they'll have something like:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Zucker-Carter-Kapanen
ZAR-Blueger-McGinn
Zohorna-Rodrigues-Heinen

That's not a lineup you'll win a cup with of course, but it's certainly fine enough to survive with.

 

[Andy99]

Honestly I'm still fine with it even without Malkin. It's obviously not cup caliber, but you just need to survive until Malkin gets back.

I imagine they'll have something like:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Zucker-Carter-Kapanen
ZAR-Blueger-McGinn
Zohorna-Rodrigues-Heinen

That's not a lineup you'll win a cup with of course, but it's certainly fine enough to survive with.

it’s not even Cup caliber unless we get 2012 Geno back and hope Jarry turns into Binnington circa 2019…

 

[Gurglesons]

Honestly I'm still fine with it even without Malkin. It's obviously not cup caliber, but you just need to survive until Malkin gets back.

I imagine they'll have something like:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Zucker-Carter-Kapanen
ZAR-Blueger-McGinn
Zohorna-Rodrigues-Heinen

That's not a lineup you'll win a cup with of course, but it's certainly fine enough to survive with.

Especially when the two teams I was expecting to improve in our division acquired….

Reaves, Nemeth and Goodrow

and….

Jones, Risto and Yandle.