Empoleon8771
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Okay. Conor Sheary for 1.5m in the off season. Sheary's been a better forechecker according to Sznajder's stats, has a p/60 a solid .21 higher and his xGF% is about 10% better. The likelihood we're in the same boat with him is pretty good.
What we choose to do with the extra 4m, 1st, and Addison I dunno, but it would probably make the team better than the extra 4m spent on Zucker. Very difficult not to.
Just like it's fairly difficult not to do better for 5.5m and two good assets than we've done this season. Most times you open up that mystery box of "what else could we have got for that", it works out better than Zucker has this season. Fingers crossed he saves the best for the playoffs.
Good on the kid, wished he'd done it anywhere else.
And Sheary was constantly a failure with Malkin anytime he was tried there, was used in a purely offensive role and offered pretty much nothing beyond his production, regardless of what his analytics suggested.
Coleman? Yeah, I think that's a fair one to say, assuming you could get him for the Zucker return (which I doubt but it's not the point). Signing Verhaeghe and keeping the 1st and Addison? Fine, I can get that. Sheary? No way, and that's coming from someone who likes Sheary.
It's not Monday morning quarterbacking if you call it a problem at the time.
Zucker didn't address any of our biggest needs - he was simply more of the same even if he had worked out, but he hasn't even done that. It was a long-term solution to a short-term problem, and we paid a premium for it even though our asset pool is one of the worst in the league.
Yeah, anything "might" happen. But Zucker has been a dud and a bad fit so far, there's no disputing that. Unfortunately we don't judge trades in Imaginationland.
It was not a good trade. It was a bad trade using assets we couldn't afford to lose for a player we didn't need.
I don't know many Pens fans who wouldn't take back that trade right now. The fact that he's expansion draft fodder says everything.
You're grossly overrating what you can get back for Addison and a 1st if this is your evaluation of the Zucker trade.
That's the kind of return that teams give up for 2nd line players or 2nd/3rd line tweeners, and that's exactly what Zucker has been with the Penguins. I mean hell, you were screeching that the Penguins should acquire Palmieri, and he proceeded to put up 21 points in 50 games this year between the Islanders and Devils.
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