Versatile two-way vet to help the Pens playoff push for a speedy RH shot scoring winger to grow with the Stars young core.
How optimistic! Why bother with any rentals eh?
Pavelski would improve this team in several key areas, and is the sort of acquisition that would go a long way to ensuring we won't get bounced early again. Likely more than any other return we'd get for Kap.
Newsflash: It may not be feasible to keep Kapanen next year regardless if they choose to keep Rodrigues and Rust, 2 players who have both outperformed him this year.
There are other ways to trade Kapanen? What other move do you think would make the Pens better this year and moving forward?
You keep saying "cost controlled", but we have no idea what his next contract will be. That would be applicable if he were signed to a good deal moving forward, but he is not.
He's an impending RFA under team control.
There is a MASSIVE difference between trading for a rental and trading a cost controlled 2nd liner winger for a rental. One is what a ton of contending teams do. The other is what Jim Benning does.
The move is just egregiously short sighted. How does this trade even remotely improve the Penguins going forward? You get a boost for like 40 games and then Pavelski is gone.
You're arguing semantics. He isn't hitting UFA for multiple years. He is therefore cost controlled. Whether you want to play semantics and argue for cost controlled vs team controlled is irrelevant.
It doesn't. It makes the Pens better this year, and moving forward we can use the cap space we aren't using on Kapanen elsewhere.
Do you think we have unlimited cap space next year? How do you think we retain Malkin, Letang, Rust, ERod, and Kapanen?
Or they can still trade Kapanen this off-season and target something that isn't a 40 game rental.
Trading Kapanen for a rental is a flat out bad idea. Period. You have a substantially better argument for something like Zucker and a boatload of futures for Pavelski and then working out the cap in the off-season than to do Kapanen for Pavelski.
I wonder if people will say this when McDavid turns 39 lolDear lord absolutely not. Why the hell would you trade a cost controlled 2nd liner for an upper 30s rental? Atrocious.
I'm going to try to appease @Empoleon8771 here:
Forgetting Kapanen for the moment, how do Dallas fans feel about Zucker and a 1st for Pavelski?
Crosby, Guentzel, and Pavelski are
arguably the 3 best hand-eye players in the league.
Without arguing is there any baseline for your post
I'm going to try to appease @Empoleon8771 here:
Forgetting Kapanen for the moment, how do Dallas fans feel about Zucker and a 1st for Pavelski?
I would even be willing to add Legare or Poulin on top of that package as well. No clue if Dallas does it, but I'd much rather do that over trading Kapanen and still needing to deal Zucker in the off-season.
Wrong. For one, Dallas isn't taking zucker .....pens don't have the boat load of futures. The whole logic here is malkin amd letang. If they want to keep them then salary needs to go which will likey mean rust doesn't resign and aleast one trade which Kapanen is an obvious choice. .ales perfect sense if they want to make a run this year.Or they can still trade Kapanen this off-season and target something that isn't a 40 game rental.
Trading Kapanen for a rental is a flat out bad idea. Period. You have a substantially better argument for something like Zucker and a boatload of futures for Pavelski and then working out the cap in the off-season than to do Kapanen for Pavelski.