If that’s a possibility, JR should 100% pull the trigger.
Why... so we can have 9 NHL D on the roster and 3 guys instead of 2 sitting in the pressbox when healthy? Honka makes zero sense for Pittsburgh unless Rutherford actually plans on moving someone... and considering that we just played a 4 game stretch that had 2 SOs and a 1 goal game, while scoring 23 goals... I don't see him in much of a hurry to move someone from the blueline.
Honka was a nice pipe dream before Schultz turned the corner, and before we got Oleksiak and signed Johnson. Not to mention getting Riikola in FA. Now he wouldn't even address a need. I like the kid's potential, but we have even less room for him on the blueline then we do for Sprong on RW.