Confirmed with Link: Pens bring back Nick Bonino for a 5th and a 7th round pick

[Fatty McLardy]

If this bum ass team somehow falls ass backwards into the playoffs, the playoff avatars need to be something around geriatric/retirement community/etc...

 

[Rave7215]

If this bum ass team somehow falls ass backwards into the playoffs, the playoff avatars need to be something around geriatric/retirement community/etc...

Theyd have to have a major collapse to miss the playoffs. They have one of the easiest schedules left in the league and just took Tampa to the cleaners. They're making it and better than this fanbase gives them credit for

 

[Ryder71]

I hate hearing "when you have Crosby, Malkin & Letang, you are going to be in win now mode", and then say with the very next breath "this team has no shot against Boston or Carolina". OK

So maybe we aren't in "win now mode" and we keep crapping away assets for a team that should admit their situation.

Paging Anton Chigurh to the Penguins HQ.

Anton Chigurh is a man after my own heart.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Theyd have to have a major collapse to miss the playoffs. They have one of the easiest schedules left in the league and just took Tampa to the cleaners. They're making it and better than this fanbase gives them credit for

They are making the playoffs.

But the cake schedule will mask the flaws and create false hope.

They bow out quickly in round one. And would have with a splash move many wanted. Too many flaws. And we all know they ain't remaining healthy.

 

[Fatty McLardy]

Theyd have to have a major collapse to miss the playoffs. They have one of the easiest schedules left in the league and just took Tampa to the cleaners. They're making it and better than this fanbase gives them credit for

they're not better than this fanbase gives them credit for until they stop bowing out in an embarrassing fashion to their 1st round opponent for like 5th season in a row..

 

[LOGiK]

Bonino? Back to the Penguins?

 

[SomeDude]

I hate hearing "when you have Crosby, Malkin & Letang, you are going to be in win now mode", and then say with the very next breath "this team has no shot against Boston or Carolina". OK

So maybe we aren't in "win now mode" and we keep crapping away assets for a team that should admit their situation.

Paging Anton Chigurh to the Penguins HQ.

Oh no, I agree with Kev.

Although, I think they should just wait until the off-season to make their moves and then go all in again.

 

[Candyman]

Listen man I'm 37 years old. It's nice being able to relate to everyone on the team still

Couple more years and you'll be ready to try out for the team.

does that NHL have a 40+ bracket?

 

[StaalForOne]

Sleepy was up that late?

His name is Ronsomnia now

 

[Night Shift]

His name is Ronsomnia now

Spin off of Ron Burgundy

 

[molon labe]

This is like - a normal deadline move.

Wtf was yesterday?

I can't be mad at the Bonino trade, only laugh a little. Like, sure - he works as a smart shutdown bottom 6 C. Paid nothing for him. Buuuttt...like is this it or is there more because these 2 moves just seem like a strange way of addressing the bottom 6 - who's biggest problem was scoring.

 

[ncm7772]

Listen man I'm 37 years old. It's nice being able to relate to everyone on the team still

Also 37, feel the same!

My lord, Hextall really was sent to destroy the Pens.

 

[SomeDude]

This threads gonna be fun to look back on in 2026 when Penguins captain Nick Bonino is accepting the Draft Kings Stanley Cup brought to you by Draft Kings from NHL overlord Elon Musk.

 

[orby]

This threads gonna be fun to look back on in 2026 when Penguins captain Nick Bonino is accepting the Draft Kings Stanley Cup brought to you by Draft Kings from NHL overlord Elon Musk.

The cup will also be an NFT that you can only see in the physical world if you have a chip implanted in your brain.

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

@orby @SomeDude I hate both of you for being right about our inevitable, terrible future

 

[KrisLetAngry]

It ends up being Blueger + 5th + 7th out and Bonino + 3rd in?

Honestly. Small upgrade this year no problem with this move.

 

[MrBurghundy]

Spin off of Ron Burgundy

This is like - a normal deadline move.

Wtf was yesterday?

I can't be mad at the Bonino trade, only laugh a little. Like, sure - he works as a smart shutdown bottom 6 C. Paid nothing for him. Buuuttt...like is this it or is there more because these 2 moves just seem like a strange way of addressing the bottom 6 - who's biggest problem was scoring.

I think the bottom 6's biggest problem was their entire identity. They didn't have one. They didn't score, but they also didn't stop people from scoring either. They just existed.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Do you think Blu is appreciably faster than Bones? Maybe by a smidgen

Blueger is definitely quicker. Neither is fast. But quickness is key here. Bones first few strides look like you're watching it in x1- speed video.

 

[Empoleon8771]

The Penguins upgraded by going from Blueger to Bonino and got a better draft pick out of it.

Can't see what there is to complain about this deal at all.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Honestly. Small upgrade this year no problem with this move.

Not so much the move that's the problem - I would have liked a grittier 4c that can win more battles and brings energy. Not a long in the tooth retread. Nothing against Bones. I despise this coach and his want for old cup favouritism.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

But this trade is official or no?

 

[KrisLetAngry]

But this trade is official or no?

Apparently the trade call has yet to go through. So it's not official in the sense we own Bonino

 

[Shady Machine]

Lol I told you all I was right after they let him go that summer. Too bad they waited until he was washed up to bring him back

 

[Bowski]

But this trade is official or no?

LeBrun is the so far the only reporter of it it seems.

Btw, I was somewhat taken aback that Bones turned from a Mujahideen into Powder over the past years.

 

[Gold Diamond]

Bones is only 34, he's still a kid!

He's probably better than at least SOME of our bottom 6'ers, right?

Right?

Bueller?