Confirmed with Link: Kap files for salary arbitration, still has no idea what he's doing in any zone

[LOGiK]

i think you might be under selling the guy a little. he seems to just have a big mental block. then he started to overthink everything and that only got worse as the year went on. seen it happen to some very smart guy's

So he's actually a genius then?

I love this place.

 

[jmelm]

Those dudes were able to excel because they're smart players, particularly Dupuis, imo. Kap's like a better Rico Fata. All the tools to succeed but squirrel-brained.

This.

I wish Kapanen was as good offensively as Dupuis, or as good defensively as either Hagelin or Dupuis.

Kapanen just flat out sucks, unless he wants to reinvent his game as a high quality checking forward, which I don't know if he has the hockey sense or desire to do.

I think the thing that makes me so annoyed with Kap is that he has the tools to be a really good, specialized player. He's just a f***ing dummy, and looks like he's a prospect trying to settle himself down and figure things out ad infinitum. Also, the coach refuses to use him as a Grabner-lite on the PK--which is bewildering, and aggravating, because it's like half of Kap's usefulness right out the window.

The thing that makes me so annoyed with Kapanen is that we could have drafted Pastrnak instead.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

This.

I wish Kapanen was as good offensively as Dupuis, or as good defensively as either Hagelin or Dupuis.

Kapanen just flat out sucks, unless he wants to reinvent his game as a high quality checking forward, which I don't know if he has the hockey sense or desire to do.



The thing that makes me so annoyed with Kapanen is that we could have drafted Pastrnak instead.

Don't even bother with the "we could've drafted" stuff, you'll go nuts. There's probably two or three instances per draft in the entirety of the era following the drafting of Sid and Geno that you can be like "shit, well, missed out on that all-star player".

 

[Andy99]

Wtf? Puckpedia has us signing Kap for 2 years at $3.2 mil.. why?

 

[Turin]

If true Pens have about 1.1 mill in cap space

 

[jmelm]

Wtf? Puckpedia has us signing Kap for 2 years at $3.2 mil.. why?

Because a Kapanen trade is coming and this just provides cost certainty for a team acquiring him.

 

[Andy99]

Because a Kapanen trade is coming and this just provides cost certainty for a team acquiring him.

Let’s hope so, and we better be in on some excellent top six forward… lol

 

[jmelm]

Let’s hope so, and we better be in on some excellent top six forward… lol

Well I'm fine to move Kapanen for a 3rd round pick, or if there's a team who's willing to take McGinn or Zucker and Kapanen is the "sweetener".

I could see a team like CHI or SEA being a good fit here, because McGinn is a solid player for a non-contending team, and both Kap and McGinn (or a healthy Zucker with retention) would be good deadline trade candidates that those teams could flip at the deadline.

Either way, there's DEFINITELY a lot more to this story.

 

[SomeDude]

If true Pens have about 1.1 mill in cap space

10% raise for ERod.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Anymore!?!?!?

I was as blind a follower as most are now, the first 3.5yrs we had Sully before I started to see similar patterns of a previous coach.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Wtf? Puckpedia has us signing Kap for 2 years at $3.2 mil.. why?

I'm not seeing it anywhere else. Plus that kap hit is the same as his last one so that's also suspicious.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I'm not seeing it anywhere else. Plus that kap hit is the same as his last one so that's also suspicious.

That aged well.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Closed now that hes signed.