NHL Trade Deadline Thread: Part IV - Cole Heads to a Meeting

[Bingo71]

Guys, JR did this to take the heat off of JJ!

 

[deakka]

I refuse to check the trade boards thread... I cant take geting mocked. Its enough JR are making my life miserable.

 

[Pancakes]

As an optimist I'll try and find a positive spin on this.

Here is all I have got:

Gudbranson is a tough guy. In the playoffs he will take liberties. He will beat the piss out of people who try to go after our stars.

That's all I got. He's terrible by all other metrics.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

So yeah... we tried the whole "give him a chance even though literally everything about the guy screams failure" with Jack Johnson. That didn't turn out so swell.

 

[DeadPuckEra]

Guys, JR did this to take the heat off of JJ!

Bingo

 

[IcedCapp]

I’m gonna look at the bright side of things: we’re only 4 months from Mario’s next interview.

 

[PG Canuck]

You can't say that, we have Johnson too.

We have Pouliot, so this is payback

 

[mpp9]

He's 27 years old. Just around the time many defenders hit thier prime. He was never flashy offensively but if he could be a solid stay at home defender with some meat and potatoes im fine with it.

Simmonds just took off our best defesidef dman and nobody did **** . At least you would hope EG would do something . Guy already took it to Wilson this year . He it a top 3 overall pick that never panned out. Can we work anything here? Pearson wasn't anything

My f***ing god. Yes, our issues this year can be boiled down to no one throwing a punch at Simmonds.

Follow JR out the door.

 

[TooManyHumans]

If we are looking for silver linings after the last game I was convinced that the Pens weren't going to accomplish anything this year. This trade has removed any lingering doubt about that. We can all move on with our lives now. This team is done.

 

[Gurglesons]

Man, looking back. Imagine the pain we could have avoided if we just re-signed Bones and Daley. Lose Sheary due to cap? Well, we did that anyway.

The hilarity of people still putting Bones as a feather in JR’s hat as a smart move is hilarious.

 

[Pancakes]

I refuse to check the trade boards thread... I cant take geting mocked. Its enough JR are making my life miserable.

meh f*** the trade board mockers. How many cups do their teams have in the past few years? Nothing they can say would bother me.

 

[66-30-33]

So has JR done the presser yet? also wonder if we have any more trades coming out.

 

[PG Canuck]

Sir, we are GRIEVING here, have some class!

Well we are still dying from Pouliot so, call it even?

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

I have to say, seeing everyone flip out is quite amusing.

people flipped out when we acquired JJ. How'd that workout? EG is worse.

 

[UnderratedBrooks44]

It's really saying something when I've only read about two comments that take a "Let's give the guy a chance" approach.

Still reeling from this deal....

 

[WayneSid9987]

Well atleast he knows he sucks...

 

[Gurglesons]

I’m gonna look at the bright side of things: we’re only 4 months from Mario’s next interview.

Good one. They just extended him, that’s the even more damning part they have faith in him.

 

[K Fleur]

As an optimist I'll try and find a positive spin on this.

Here is all I have got:

Gudbranson is a tough guy. In the playoffs he will take liberties. He will beat the piss out of people who try to go after our stars.

That's all I got. He's terrible by all other metrics.

 

[pensfan71]

Bruh what the f*** did I just log in to see

 

[Mrs Crosby's Dryer]

From a perspective of speediness, this is a very bad trade.

Speediness aside, it’s curious at best.

Look on the bright side, at least we kept our 1st.

 

[Turin]

There’s no way Mario and Burkle are enjoying the complete philosophical change leading to terrible salary books and the biggest failed season in 13 years right?

There’s hope that JR f***s off right?

 

[DeadPuckEra]

Because he got KO'ed and wasn't very good. Gudbranson hasn't been KO'd by Wilson yet.

Quite the opposite actually:



Didn’t beat him up, but he handled Wilson and got the W

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I feel like I'm reliving the latter years of Shero.

This is exactly what I thought of as well. JJ and Gudbranson are JR's version of the endless Scuderi/Eaton/Pyatt/Comrie/other random garbage moves Shero made as his tenure here circled the drain.'

I can't wait to see video of JR's presser. Where he's just stumbling/mumbling through sentences, looks sickly in his complexion, keeps pumping the tires of another questionable decision.

 

[dogthateats]

He did this to make our 1st more valuable

 

[DegenX]

We're done for the day ...
Gudbranson/Pearson trade is here.
Wideman/Dea trade thread is here.
GMJR thread is here.
I'll get a new cap thread going in a few minutes.