Confirmed with Link: Justin Schultz (50% retained) to Penguins for 3rd round pick

[Empoleon8771]

I think the Pens should sub him in for easier games to rest Pouliot. I'd play him tonight, for example.

Why is Pouliot the guy that needs to be rested? I think Maatta or Dumoulin need a break much more than Pouliot does.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Poohs been paying great recently. If anything i would reward him with some time on the 2nd pair with dumo.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Poohs been paying great recently. If anything i would reward him with some time on the 2nd pair with dumo.

don't Pooh and Dumo both play on the left?

But I agree not to sit him and potentially move towards adding some ice time.

 

[Malkinstheman]

except Daley has been great too, and don't Pooh and Dumo both play on the left?

But I agree not to sit him.

Yeah i agree. It seems like for the time being the d line-up will stay as is. Everyone is mostly playing too good to benched so the only way I can see schultz getting a game is if we run with 7D

 

[Ogrezilla]

Yeah i agree. It seems like for the time being the d line-up will stay as is. Everyone is mostly playing too good to benched so the only way I can see schultz getting a game is if we run with 7D

I think 7D is the way to go vs playing our 19th forward

 

[Malkinstheman]

Yeah archibald is way way way down on our depth chart

 

[BeautiPhil]

It's tough. I really want to see Schultz play, but our top 4 is currently solidified with Letang, Dumo, Daley (who has been excellent and is truly fulfilling a top 4 guy), and Maatta (who has been just up-and-down but handling big minutes pretty well despite some deficiencies). That leaves the bottom-pairing, but Pouliot has been very good since his call up, and being that he's our top D prospect and is looking NHL ready, he needs minutes.

Really the only spot he can go is in Cole's, since he's an RD anyway, but Cole seems to have learned from his benching, and is playing solid with Pouliot. Plus Pouliot+Schultz seems like a potential defensive liability, even though Pooh has been playing defensively sound.

 

[Ogrezilla]

It's tough. I really want to see Schultz play, but our top 4 is currently solidified with Letang, Dumo, Daley (who has been excellent and is truly fulfilling a top 4 guy), and Maatta (who has been just up-and-down but handling big minutes pretty well despite some deficiencies). That leaves the bottom-pairing, but Pouliot has been very good since his call up, and being that he's our top D prospect and is looking NHL ready, he needs minutes.

Really the only spot he can go is in Cole's, since he's an RD anyway, but Cole seems to have learned from his benching, and is playing solid with Pouliot. Plus Pouliot+Schultz seems like a potential defensive liability, even though Pooh has been playing defensively sound.

That's why I like the idea of going 7D. You can try Pooh and Schultz a few times and see if it looks like a complete disaster or not without committing to it for a whole game or messing up the top 4.

 

[DegenX]

 

[Malkinstheman]

So then the line-up will be :

hags-sid-horny

earnitz-geno-kessel

Wilson-bonino-rust

Kuhn-cullen-archibald

(If sullivan doesnt ignore the effect of the line change during the rangers)

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Sully on Schultz going forward

http://sportsblogs.post-gazette.com/sports/penguins-penguins-blog/2016/03/05/Pre-game-notes-Penguins-Flames.html

 

[JTG]

I agree with Sullivan that I wouldn't touch what is currently working, and I like having 7 defensemen. That gives motivation to everyone that you have to perform to play. If Schultz is performing in practice, and Cole isn't, Cole sits and Schultz plays. If Cole is performing in practice and Pouliot isn't, Pouliot sits and Cole plays. Friendly internal competition is always how a coach gets the most out of his players.

We have been lacking hunger in this lineup for years because Shero was giving bad contracts to veterans. Seeing guys in the bottom 6 fighting for their lives, and having enough NHL defensemen to create some competition is a welcomed change in how we've been doing things here.

 

[Ogrezilla]

I agree with Sullivan that I wouldn't touch what is currently working, and I like having 7 defensemen. That gives motivation to everyone that you have to perform to play. If Schultz is performing in practice, and Cole isn't, Cole sits and Schultz plays. If Cole is performing in practice and Pouliot isn't, Pouliot sits and Cole plays. Friendly internal competition is always how a coach gets the most out of his players.

We have been lacking hunger in this lineup for years because Shero was giving bad contracts to veterans. Seeing guys in the bottom 6 fighting for their lives, and having enough NHL defensemen to create some competition is a welcomed change in how we've been doing things here.

Agreed. Now if only someone told Sullivan that competition is allowed to go beyond guys making less than 2 million a year.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Agreed. Now if only someone told Sullivan that competition is allowed to go beyond guys making less than 2 million a year.

Daley was allowed to compete with Lovejoy.


lbr, though, it's one guy that doesn't have any threat of competition.

 

[plaidchuck]

So if I'm Shultz and.wont be getting a qualifying offer anyways, why do I sign here as a ufa?

 

[66-30-33]

So if I'm Shultz and.wont be getting a qualifying offer anyways, why do I sign here as a ufa?

Who else will sign him? one of the worst dmen in the league. He will be lucky to get a contract for how bad he's been with all those bad habits.

 

[plaidchuck]

Who else will sign him? one of the worst dmen in the league. He will be lucky to get a contract for how bad he's been with all those bad habits.

Well then the question is why did we trade for the worst dman in the league?

 

[Speaking Moistly]

So if I'm Shultz and.wont be getting a qualifying offer anyways, why do I sign here as a ufa?

Because they were the team that actually gave something up for him so who knows how many other teams would actually be interested and they're fairly committed to rehabbing him. Plus this team is actually good with defensemen. It's probably one of the best situations he could have hoped to land in if he wants to have a NHL career in the future, even if the Pens are liable to screw up along the way.

 

[66-30-33]

Well then the question is why did we trade for the worst dman in the league?

I have no idea, i still hate this trade. But Pens love those projects to work on.

 

[Corvidae]

I have no idea, i still hate this trade. But Pens love those projects to work on.

If it's anything like the Clendening project, they'll almost never play him then send him out the door.

 

[Darth Vitale]

I miss the old days when new guy initiation involved Tom Barrasso ****ing your wife.

Ah yes. A tradition carried on for a time by the mystical taters. Never met a wife he didn't like.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

If it's anything like the Clendening project, they'll almost never play him then send him out the door.

To be fair, most of Schultz's faults are fixable, or at least coachable to the point where his other skills can shine through.

Clendening's skating basically limited his ceiling to a PP specialist, regardless of what a coach could do for his game. Clendening is one of few guys out there that can make Määttä look like a smooth skater.

 

[NikolaiCakebreaker]

Well then the question is why did we trade for the worst dman in the league?

Get outta here with that damn logic! We're a team of dreamers.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Well then the question is why did we trade for the worst dman in the league?

Scuderi went to LA, bud.

 

[ReLyT]

How'd Justin look tonight?