Confirmed with Link: Pens and Coyotes make a trade

[Gurglesons]

Yea color me royally PISSED. I was a huge Archi fan and thought he got jerked around, this after he gets an NHL contract

WTF is going on?

Rutherford is a mediocre GM who had a solid core which he only had to tinker with to win a cup. Hornqvist and Schultz were pretty great trades everything else was either stunningly obvious (Kessel) or incredibly lucky (Hags, Lovejoy, etc.)

 

[ZeroHero]

 

[Empoleon8771]

I guess the implied wasn't implied enough.

Sorry there are people seriously saying that this means Jarry is going to be traded

 

[Freedom]

 

[cheesedanish87]

I don't know why anybody is complaining, Archi played 3 game this year.

If your not going to play him what's the point of having him on your team?

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Couldn't they just get some (actual) goalie depth for someone like Reaves?

Yeah, I’m going to guess he’s fairly worthless and wouldn’t get them someone better.

 

[Shrimper]

Or the Penguins needed a 3rd string goalie because DeSmith wasn't enough after Jarry and Murray. People are way overthinking this. It's adding goalie depth, Leighton is not a NHL goalie.

Maguire is pretty terrible too. All it takes is a few injuries and we'd be screwed. Leighton is an upgrade for WBS.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Mackey and Yohe are just as confused as we are.

 

[StaalForOne]

JR said they needed Goalie Depth, but this doesn't add up for me.

The Good:
4th > 7th obviously, not even worth typing, but here we are
Leighton is better than Maguire, at least now, and likely going forward.

The Bad:
Archie has his best game and they ship him out
Does this really address the goalie depth issue? It just pushes the issue down to Wheeling as opposed to Pit or WBS. There is still a hole, just not as bad of a hole.

It was pretty clear Archie wasn't going to get time here, so like Wilson, it's good to get him somewhere he will at least play I suppose.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

I don't know why anybody is complaining, Archi played 3 game this year.

If your not going to play him what's the point of having him on your team?

Because it's December and it's dumb to not have NHL ready players insurances in case of injuries?

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Obviously he was hurting Reaves' playing time.

JR had to make a move to force Sully to be part of his plan.

 

[Deport Ogie]

Sorry there are people seriously saying that this means Jarry is going to be traded

No worries.

This does have the stink of an "initial move leading to dot dot dot" about it though at this point the best it does is shuffle a few pennies around. Maybe the potential move is less about Jarry and more about Casey DeSmith being sent somewhere and this is your new WBS starter.

 

[Beauner]

Mackey and Yohe are just as confused as we are.

Yeah my after my initial "wtf" my next thought was potentially getting rid of a contract because JR is working on acquiring another one? Something doesn't add up here.

 

[Pens x]

I don't know why anybody is complaining, Archi played 3 game this year.

If your not going to play him what's the point of having him on your team?

Because people feel he should be playing over some of the regulars like Kuhnhackl. Plus he’s a decent depth guy when we have injuries. He’s better than our other fourth liners.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

JR said they needed Goalie Depth, but this doesn't add up for me.

The Good:
4th > 7th obviously, not even worth typing, but here we are
Leighton is better than Maguire, at least now, and likely going forward.

The Bad:
Archie has his best game and they ship him out
Does this really address the goalie depth issue? It just pushes the issue down to Wheeling as opposed to Pit or WBS. There is still a hole, just not as bad of a hole.

It was pretty clear Archie wasn't going to get time here, so like Wilson, it's good to get him somewhere he will at least play I suppose.

Intuitively yes.

However, historically there is zero difference between a 4th or 7th round pick's percentage chances of making or contributing to a team.

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

Leighton sucks but Archibald really isnt an NHL player either

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Michael f***ing Leighton???

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sick, more Reaves.*

*In the lineup, not playing more than 5 minutes a game, doing absolutely nothing, etc.

Ah well, hopefully this is just the first of several moves. This team is in a bad spot and waiting it out isn't gonna change things, I don't think.

 

[Talisman]

Duchene......................... maybe JR is planning to get Duchene in thirt center spot after from ottava...

 

[Gurglesons]

It’s frustrating because we could afford to lose Wilson because of Archibald, now we have to start digging into WBS even more.

Also Leighton was terrible in 07.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Add another writer who doesn't get it.

 

[cheesedanish87]

Because it's December and it's dumb to not have NHL ready players insurances in case of injuries?

For whatever reason Sully didn't like him, he wasn't going to play him over anybody.

They could of played Archi last week, but they brought Simon up instead.

It was very obvious Sully didn't like Archi.

Archi deserved a chance to go somewhere and play, the pens were jerking him around.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Yeah my after my initial "wtf" my next thought was potentially getting rid of a contract because JR is working on acquiring another one? Something doesn't add up here.

Their contracts aren’t a problem unless he’d be taking on a bunch and this gets them down one contract. Possibly more veteran G presence for WBS than anything.

 

[Snooki Stackhouse]

Played in Carolina when JR was there. Maybe Leighton always brought good buffalo chicken dip to holiday pot lucks and, with Christmas approaching, JR needed to make the deal.

 

[hardnosed]

Maybe its as simple as having a vet goalie that they could swap back and forth with Jarry so Jarry can get some games in WBS instead of sitting for 2 weeks.