Confirmed Signing with Link: [PIT] Jared McCann signs extension (2 years, $2.94M AAV)

[deckercky]

JR: I want to clear cap space to be active in free agency
Also JR: re-signs McCann (the most likely guy to trade for cap space), Riikola (who's paid a lot to be a #7D) and Ruhwedel a year before his current deal expires

I'd really like to see how JR plans on clearing out salary to be active in free agency if he also plans on re-signing all of his players.

Crosby 50% retained for a conditional 7th

 

[SEALBound]

Hmmm sam Bennett ans Matt murray have been making the rounds

I don't believe you. Continue.

 

[Mick Jagr]

So apparently changing up the team and getting younger means just not signing Justin Schultz and trading our first away for a 23 year old? None of this makes any sense.

 

[Pens1566]

OK value for his production. Still not sure how he "fits" as I don't see him as a full time 3C.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

JR: I want to clear cap space to be active in free agency
Also JR: re-signs McCann (the most likely guy to trade for cap space), Riikola (who's paid a lot to be a #7D) and Ruhwedel a year before his current deal expires

I'd really like to see how JR plans on clearing out salary to be active in free agency if he also plans on re-signing all of his players.

Devil's advocate - wouldn't trading McCann be easier now that he's signed so the new team knows exactly what he's going to cost, rather than trading an unsigned RFA whose asking price might not be known?

 

[Empoleon8771]

Devil's advocate - wouldn't trading McCann be easier now that he's signed so the new team knows exactly what he's going to cost, rather than trading an unsigned RFA whose asking price might not be known?

Nah, I think that would be a huge middle finger to the player to trade them right after they sign. It's not really a common thing to happen. I don't think McCann would sign a deal with Pittsburgh under the pretense that it makes him being traded easier, and I doubt JR is a big enough jerk to flip flop on him like that.

 

[kerrabria]

JR: I want to clear cap space to be active in free agency
Also JR: re-signs McCann (the most likely guy to trade for cap space), Riikola (who's paid a lot to be a #7D) and Ruhwedel a year before his current deal expires

I'd really like to see how JR plans on clearing out salary to be active in free agency if he also plans on re-signing all of his players.

Riikola is good tho. I could see him usurping Johnson at some point, and you need to give a little to get a guy like him to stick around for another year while Joseph fine tunes in the minors.

McCann may play LW.
Blueger may play 3C.
Murray and/or Hornqvist may be dealt for roster forwards.
Poulin and/or Legare may make the team.

McCann won't replace Zucker, Gunetzel or Rust in the top 6, and this would be an overpay to use McCann as a passenger winger in a mediocre bottom 6. Same with Kapanen if you think Sullivan will play somebody on their off-wing and force force Kap down the lineup.

If teddy plays 3C they have bigger issues.. McCann slot in on that line with tanev and probably someone murray brings in. Teddy stays 4C. ZaR probably gone. Hornqvist gone .

McCann - Tanev sounds like the basis of an expensive, and not particularly useful, third line. Unless you think Hornqvist/Murray can return a play-driving winger with a workable salary.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Riikola is good tho. I could see him usurping Johnson at some point, and you need to give a little to get a guy like him to stick around for another year while Joseph fine tunes in the minors.

You have to get rid of Johnson first though, and if JR can manage to pull that off, I'm buying lottery tickets right after the trade is announced

 

[themelkman]

I feel sorry for Kevin Labanc. This is a pretty decent comparable

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Nah, I think that would be a huge middle finger to the player to trade them right after they sign. It's not really a common thing to happen. I don't think McCann would sign a deal with Pittsburgh under the pretense that it makes him being traded easier, and I doubt JR is a big enough jerk to flip flop on him like that.

Letang it is then.

 

[kerrabria]

Nah, I think that would be a huge middle finger to the player to trade them right after they sign. It's not really a common thing to happen. I don't think McCann would sign a deal with Pittsburgh under the pretense that it makes him being traded easier, and I doubt JR is a big enough jerk to flip flop on him like that.

meh, it's not that common, but it does happen. McCann himself was traded for Gudbranson who had just signed an extension with FLA like a week earlier in 2016. And I don't think JR is the type to let courtesy get in the way of shrewdness. Didn't he lie to Fehr about giving him the 3C position? And I doubt UFA Casey DeSmith signed that extension planning to staple himself to the AHL.
Not to mention the quick exit he showed Hunwick, Plotnikov, and Oleksiak.

 

[SEALBound]

reasonable cap hit, will they now go on to trade him?

He had a great wrist shot in Vancouver before the current GM ditched him for a slow, useless D

Gudbranson. Who the Pens subsequently traded for.

 

[RSPens]

meh, it's not that common, but it does happen. McCann himself was traded for Gudbranson who had just signed an extension with FLA like a week earlier in 2016. And I don't think JR is the type to let courtesy get in the way of shrewdness. Didn't he lie to Fehr about giving him the 3C position? And I doubt UFA Casey DeSmith signed that extension planning to staple himself to the AHL.
Not to mention the quick exit he showed Hunwick, Plotnikov, and Oleksiak.

Hey, do you think the Pens could get him back for a 4th?

 

[thekernel]

Interesting deal, he's been a playoff scratch a couple of times, just tied his career high in points, almost hit 20 goals once....It's not a long deal nor is it an overpayment...but there's clearly some belief there.

 

[Oddbob]

JR: I want to clear cap space to be active in free agency
Also JR: re-signs McCann (the most likely guy to trade for cap space), Riikola (who's paid a lot to be a #7D) and Ruhwedel a year before his current deal expires

I'd really like to see how JR plans on clearing out salary to be active in free agency if he also plans on re-signing all of his players.

He has pulled the swerve of a life time. Everybody gets a contract, EVERYBODY!

 

[ChrisKuuuunitz]

Wow...just as I predicted months ago.. McCann signed for under 3 mil per season. There was a certain poster who argued this pojnt to no avail...lol...decent signing. He will form the new look third line with tanev and ????

Simon

 

[wonton15]

Have there been any rumours about McCann in the locker room in Pittsburgh (genuine question)?

He was not liked in the Vancouver room. Seems like Virtanen always throws big hits against McCann and chirps him.

Reasonable contract, though

 

[Hottubber]

Have there been any rumours about McCann in the locker room in Pittsburgh (genuine question)?

He was not liked in the Vancouver room. Seems like Virtanen always throws big hits against McCann and chirps him.

Reasonable contract, though

I never heard anything about him in the dressing room. He didnt seem happy when Vancouver drafted him and he was interviewed but thats it

 

[PensandCaps]

Hmmm sam Bennett ans Matt murray have been making the rounds

Sam Bennett isn't a good NHL centre either.

 

[PensandCaps]

So when Sid went down and McCann was the Pens 2C, did you just not watch any games? Because he filled in very well with good wingers.

Did you miss the 2nd half of the season?

 

[Strakanator]

I like McCann and Tanev as wingers on the 3rd line. If they get a good 3C with some passing ability, that line could be something.

 

[cvrle1]

JR: I want to clear cap space to be active in free agency
Also JR: re-signs McCann (the most likely guy to trade for cap space), Riikola (who's paid a lot to be a #7D) and Ruhwedel a year before his current deal expires

I'd really like to see how JR plans on clearing out salary to be active in free agency if he also plans on re-signing all of his players.

By trading away Bjug, MM, Horni, and possibly Rust and maybe even Letang.

 

[Strakanator]

Just thinking outside the box: can Simon play center?

Is this an experiment worth trying? Simon can really pass the puck and also is defensively responsible.

 

[ownal]

Just thinking outside the box: can Simon play center?

Is this an experiment worth trying? Simon can really pass the puck and also is defensively responsible.

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[Mick Jagr]

By trading away Bjug, MM, Horni, and possibly Rust and maybe even Letang.

Rust is on a sweetheart of a contract. Dude is going nowhere.