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JordanStaal#1Fan
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I just don't want JR to tie up $5mil on another over the hill-er.
I mean, I GUESS they could straight up trade him even if doing well in standings.
I just..man..if Pens make playoffs they'll likely need bodies...
I was using Honka as an example of a cheap replacement, but if we're trusting GP as a measure of how good a defenceman is then Jack Johnson was perfectly fine last season. I would be much more interested in trying to find a new Pettersson than ending up with an albatross contract for a defenceman who has been straight up bad the past 2 seasons.
You're just assuming that Schultz has been a top 4 calibre defenceman the past two seasons (which is false) and that he will continue to be so once extended (which is very dubious) and therefore it's inconceivable that we could replace him. We have been playing without a quality 2nd pairing RD for the past two seasons, this is not a hypothetical.
Our options are to either double down on his mediocrity in the hopes that he reverts back to his anomaly career season or get creative and find an undervalued guy like Pettersson to fill that role. One option puts us in a really tough spot from a cap perspective and one gives us flexibility.
You trade players. Bjugstad out, Gudbranson out, likely Rust out and maybe one of the RFAs gets traded instead of signed. Dear god, JJ out but I doubt it. Fill in the blanks with the remaining RFAs and WBS. No ****ing free agency overpays for JR. Maybe Hornqvist and Tanev slot up higher.
Guentzel-Crosby-X
Galchenyuk-Malkin-X
X-Blueger-Hornqvist
X-Lafferty-Tanev
Dumoulin-Letang
Pettersson-Schultz
X-Marino
Murray
Cheap back up
They’ve got almost 15M tied up in Johnson, Gudbranson, Bjugstad and Rust. Really, we just need to see how the season goes. With Schultz I think his health will play into it a lot.
Resigning Schultz would already be a free agency overpay though.
Yes. And he was still scoring nearly twice as much as Gudbranson while functioning as a steadying influence for his partner for years, unlike Guds, who has played 20 good games while being babysat by another defenseman.
That's why one has value at 4 mil and the other doesn't. That's why allocating 4 mil to a bottom pair defenseman who hasn't been good at either end rather than 6 mil to a defenseman who's been at least as good at one end and far, far better at the other would be a mistake.
Easier said than done. In any such trades, we'd probably have to bring salary back unless teams would be interested in taking them as cap dumps, in which case the returns would be greatly diminished and would hurt us.
We can just trade out of anything. That’s why JJ any here anymore.