PTO: [PIT] F Jesse Puljujarvi signs PTO with the Penguins

[Miro4Norris]

There is definitely a room for Pulju in our team if he comes close to his pre-injury level (he played injured last year). I like this try-out it's better than having Nylander out there. Of course it's not gonna fix important things (incompetent coaching) but it can be a small improvement and we need those as well

 

[JMCx4]

The Pens equipment people have their work cut out for them. Good luck finding a helmet to fit the kid.

I thought you were going down the spelling-his-name path for his Pens sweater.

 

[Right Wing]

He’s a nice guy you wanna see succeed. He just has zero hockey IQ

He’s perfect for PP with Crosby, as he is a fairly fast skater. Sid can just tell him to get to the net, lower your head to slightly below crossbar level and I’ll bounce them in off your head!!

 

[bobholly39]

Crosby is going to show this McDavid clown how to get this guy going, to finally prove to all 87 >> 97

 

[McFlash97]

He's got good speed and good shot. Everything else....

 

[Stive Morgan]

I wanna see him slotted with Crosby

 

[Mike Jones]

I thought you were going down the spelling-his-name path for his Pens sweater.

That too.

 

[Zbynek]

Lol, this guy and Sullivan together...can't wait!

 

[Srsly]

Good for him. Not everyone gets a chance to fail to produce with both Crosby and McDavid(arguably the two best players over the last decade).

Maybe it’ll work out in a depth role in all seriousness. He’s still relatively young and if he’s properly recovered from his surgery has all the raw tools.

 

[Esko6]

Looking forward to him contributing absolutely nothing for him.

He’s just a bad hockey (NHL) player

The type of injury he has had and the resurfacing of his joints usually does not work out, nice that they gave him a chance but EU professional career is a good goal.

 

[majormajor]

Pittsburgh's GAA just sky rocketed.

It's comments like these that make me wonder if people have any idea what the actual issue with Puljujarvi was.

He was a +22 just two years ago, with the lowest goals against per minute of any Oiler.

 

[Mr Positive]

It's comments like these that make me wonder if people have any idea what the actual issue with Puljujarvi was.

He was a +22 just two years ago, with the lowest goals against per minute of any Oiler.

This. He was good defensively here. He just couldn't gel with anyone to make plays

 

[urho]

Jesse was briefly a very good checking forward for Edmonton a couple years ago, before his hips fell apart again. There was even a very large group of Oilers posters who wanted to give him a massive extension! Of course no one will own up to it now.

That said, this is his second double hip surgery so expectations should be very low.

People have forgotten this. He passed the eye test and his underlying numbers were very good when he came back from Finland. He was very good at times, a good complimentary winger able to play in top 6 role. His hips just went again and when he wasn't able to use his speed anymore, he was pretty much useless.

If he's healthy again, there's definitely some upside.

 

[majormajor]

This. He was good defensively here. He just couldn't gel with anyone to make plays

Even then, if his body was holding up he could made a fine bottom six shutdown guy. The problem was that his hips got bad again.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

No risk

No reward too...

 

[trick9]

Makes sense, given how bad the Penguins bottom-6 forwards are.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

I would understand some of these comments if Pulju was an a**hole.. i wish nothing but success for the kid, seems like a truly nice guy.

No-one is wishing him harm, we are only saying that he's not good. He can be a really nice guy and a bad NHLer...

 

[VainGretzky]

Wish him all the success in Pittsburgh , one of the nicest people around all hail the bison king

 

[EpochLink]

The Penguins going to raise THE STANDARD

 

[ZJuice]

I said he is too dumb to stick.. But part of me thinks it his agent talking in his ear. Make me eat some crow Jesse! My favourite bad player..

 

[sepHF]

Wow the pens must be really desperate

Unless he got brain surgery as well I don’t see him lasting long

 

[MS]

It's comments like these that make me wonder if people have any idea what the actual issue with Puljujarvi was.

He was a +22 just two years ago, with the lowest goals against per minute of any Oiler.

The only time he's ever generated any results is playing with McDavid/Draisaitl.

Separated from those guys and asked to play normal 3rd line minutes with normal 3rd line players, he's been sub-replacement level for his entire career.

 

[Dust]

I wish him well. People forget that there was a good stretch not that long ago where he was actually playing good hockey. He's never going to live up to where he was drafted, but it looked like things had started to come together for him in the first half of the 21-22 season, and then he got hurt.

 

[majormajor]

The only time he's ever generated any results is playing with McDavid/Draisaitl.

Separated from those guys and asked to play normal 3rd line minutes with normal 3rd line players, he's been sub-replacement level for his entire career.

1. I've heard this myth repeated so many times but somehow Jesse didn't have a negative GF% with anyone on the Oilers in 2021-22. In other words, he wasn't outscored with any player on the team, despite sharing the ice with more than 30 players. That's incredible, not sub-replacement!

2. More than half of those Oilers were outscored without Puljujarvi by their side, including McDavid.

Retract your bad argument.

 

[Breakers]