Confirmed with Link: Penguins re-sign Letang to six-year, $36.6m deal

[Flying Dego]

I was ok with a 7-7.5 x 5yr deal....so I'll take the extra year and cap savings all day.

As unlikely as us winning again is, Letang is the most irreplaceable guy at this point. His fitness will keep him at current levels for another 2-3 years. Even later he will probably still be a 2nd pairing Dman I believe...Ideally someone like Marino would offload some minutes from Letang.

Some players keep playing at a high level into their 40s. Letangs a guy I'd bet on just like I would Sid. They take extremely good care of themselves.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

You can probably sign Trocheck will keeping Zucker.

Trocheck at $5.5 million, Rakell at $4.5 million and a 3rd line RWer making $2 million would be cap compliant there.

One of Zucker, Pettersson, or Dumoulin would have to go in order to make room for Trocheck.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I love the signing. Absolutely love it.

Great cap flexibility, and if you look at the other contracts signed this year around this same AAV Letang is clearly the most important player to his team. The team needs immediate flexibility to compete as strongly as possible as early as possible.

 

[jmelm]

Now we just need to sign Rakell to an 8 year deal for like $3.5M.

You know, all term, low AAV.

Oh, and we can also then give ERod an 8 year deal too!

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

One of Zucker, Pettersson, or Dumoulin would have to go in order to make room for Trocheck.

Why can't it be all 3?

 

[KrisLetAngry]

You can probably sign Trocheck will keeping Zucker.

Trocheck at $5.5 million, Rakell at $4.5 million and a 3rd line RWer making $2 million would be cap compliant there.

Is trocheck really only a 5.5 million player. I thought he'd go for 6+

 

[Extra Texture]

One of Zucker, Pettersson, or Dumoulin would have to go in order to make room for Trocheck.

If some second or third rounders as a bribes for Zuck or Petts is the only thing standing in the way of:

Guentzel---Crosby----Rust
Rackell---Trocheck---Malkin

then screw it it, get it done and for the next two years buckle up, baby. If we assume Rack @ 4.5 and Trocheck @ 5.5 (as Empoleon theorized), and taken Malkin @6, we've gotta take advantage of these sweetheart deals and go for broke.

Lowball Kapanen (or trade him), bring back Heinen, bring back Boyle for peanuts, wave goodbye to ERod, and platoon Friedman/POJ on the third pair. I think the above works financially if its Zucker that we dump. If its Petts, then Kapanen probably has to go with him. Which, maybe if we staple the two of them together, we might actually be able to eeke out positive value.

 

[jmelm]

Love the AAV, but I hate the length.

Now, go put the cap savings to work. No, that doesn’t mean use that cap space to sign Erod or Heinen.

Agreed. It should have been 8 years.

 

[Crosbyfan]

Good signing...though 6 years is a lot given he will still expect to be played 45 minutes a night at 41...regardless of results...

 

[Pancakes]

People love to use Jfresh's cards to support their narrative but the minute they don't do that it's oh these cards actually don't tell the full story.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I'll be honest, Jfresh's cards are kind of like some sort of weird tarot cards IMO. I don't get how they're really indicative of anything, but I like that he takes the time to do it.

 

[mrzeigler]

Letang’s career numbers
GP: 941
G: 144
A: 506
P: 650

GPG rate, career: 0.15
APG rate, career: 0.54
PPG rate, career: 0.69

After his six-year contract, what do you expect his career stats to be?

He’d have to average 58 point & change each year to hit 1,000 points, and he’d have to average 9.3 goals a year to hit 200. Should be a fun exercise, given the many variables at play here.