Salary Cap: Pittsburgh Penguins Salary Cap: Time is Relevant and Empty Arenas are Wormholes

[Tom Hanks]

Same type of ES production in terms of goals, but has shown to be more apt at wing with a quality center and can play C in a bottom six role in a pinch.

Really haven’t looked at our roster (or anything hockey lately) but if similar you’d take the better centre most of the time. Depth there is generally more important.

Probably should start getting back into hockey again

 

[Gurglesons]

Really haven’t looked at our roster (or anything hockey lately) but if similar you’d take the better centre most of the time. Depth there is generally more important.

Probably should start getting back into hockey again

Guentzel - Crosby - Kunin
Zucker - Malkin - Rust
Tanev - Bleuger - Hornqvist
ZAR - Rodrigues - Lafferty

 

[Tom Hanks]

Guentzel - Crosby - Kunin
Zucker - Malkin - Rust
Tanev - Bleuger - Hornqvist
ZAR - Rodrigues - Lafferty

Aren’t you forgetting something....

 

[Gurglesons]

Aren’t you forgetting something....

Lol

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Jared McCann for Luke Kunin and a 2nd.

Would you do it?

I put this in the main board Minny thread too, but I'd have to see how McCann performs in the playoffs.

If he impresses and we can roll 4 solid lines, I'd be hesitant to give that up.

 

[Tom Hanks]

 

[Empoleon8771]

It's kinda a weird move to unfollow the team before the playoffs even began

 

[heysmilinstrange]

Maybe Murray felt that seeing hundreds of comments about how he's a skinny, ugly crackhead with a bad glove hand who only won Cups because Fleury was telepathically guiding him from the bench wouldn't be good for his focus heading into the playoffs.

 

[EightyOne]

Maybe Murray felt that seeing hundreds of comments about how he's a skinny, ugly crackhead with a bad glove hand who only won Cups because Fleury was telepathically guiding him from the bench wouldn't be good for his focus heading into the playoffs.

Weak little baby can't handle hearing the truth?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Weak little baby can't handle hearing the truth?

This is satire, right?

 

[EightyOne]

This is satire, right?

My PR agent suggests that perhaps my account was hacked

 

[Borgir]

It's kinda a weird move to unfollow the team before the playoffs even began

Maybe he found out that only 17 year old puckbunnies follow the site to see shirtless hockey players?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Jared McCann for Luke Kunin and a 2nd.

Would you do it?

No, McCann if he wasn't jerked around as a winger and then back to center, produces as well as Kunin and fits the Pens at that 3C slot. I think the issue people have is the potential contract he could land, I don't think it'll be as much as people think, if they can get him around what Rust makes (I think 3-3.5m range) for a 3C, we're in a good spot.

As for Kunin, I like his game and that he's a right handed shot (man we need another handed center that can win faceoffs), but even with his motor and injury history, I like the way McCann fits on the Pens a lot better than to move him for a lesser player and a pick.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Doesn't matter, I still think he was going to get moved anyway.

 

[Gurglesons]

No, McCann if he wasn't jerked around as a winger and then back to center, produces as well as Kunin and fits the Pens at that 3C slot. I think the issue people have is the potential contract he could land, I don't think it'll be as much as people think, if they can get him around what Rust makes (I think 3-3.5m range) for a 3C, we're in a good spot.

As for Kunin, I like his game and that he's a right handed shot (man we need another handed center that can win faceoffs), but even with his motor and injury history, I like the way McCann fits on the Pens a lot better than to move him for a lesser player and a pick.

I think Guentzel - Crosby - Kunin Zucker - Malkin - Rust is a hell of a top six.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I think Guentzel - Crosby - Kunin Zucker - Malkin - Rust is a hell of a top six.

Kunin is a center.

Say it with me. Centers stay at Center, we don't need to make everyone a winger.

Purge your inner Sullivan.

Also, the usage of Kunin has been on the 2nd line with Zucc and our boy Chucky. He's not really putting up the kind of numbers that you would want to move Jared McCann for, similar age (McCann is 24, Kunin 23 in December), not as fast and as productive, even if Canner is streaky. I like the fit of McCann as the 3c, if the Wild do Bjugstad for Kunin straight up, f*** it, I'm in mate.

Otherwise, no.

And you're dreaming, you know it's going to be...

Guentzel, Crosby, Simon
Zucker, Malkin, Rust

Crosby loves his Simon.

 

[Gurglesons]

Kunin is a center.

Say it with me. Centers stay at Center, we don't need to make everyone a winger.

Purge your inner Sullivan.

Also, the usage of Kunin has been on the 2nd line with Zucc and our boy Chucky. He's not really putting up the kind of numbers that you would want to move Jared McCann for, similar age (McCann is 24, Kunin 23 in December), not as fast and as productive, even if Canner is streaky. I like the fit of McCann as the 3c, if the Wild do Bjugstad for Kunin straight up, f*** it, I'm in mate.

Otherwise, no.

This was the first year of Kunin being used at center regularly. He has way more experience at RW than McCann and likely comes cheaper which was the point of the trade.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

This was the first year of Kunin being used at center regularly. He has way more experience at RW than McCann and likely comes cheaper which was the point of the trade.

He was playing C in Iowa and in stints on the Wild. They envision him as a C and he has been playing more as one since he's been pro with the Wild, than he has been a RW'er.

Like I said, if it was Bjugstad, sign me up. Not for McCann. That's creating another issue to fill one that this team probably has a solution for, within.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

In either case, trying to get a guy that the Wild see as a top 9 player, were using as a 2nd line C (with Eriksson-Ek)...they are going to keep him unless the Pens give up a player they shouldn't give up, for him, with maybe a sweetener. I am undervaluing him for Bjugstad and you are with McCann for him and a 2nd.

Just doesn't work.

 

[T1K]

Ristolainen seems like a guy who would greatly benefit from a change of scenery

 

[Honour Over Glory]

No posts about Wheeling's new coach? This board has caught the covid.

I sometimes forget the ECHL exists.

Ristolainen seems like a guy who would greatly benefit from a change of scenery

Just as a coincidence, Jack Johnson could also use one.

 

[T1K]

I sometimes forget the ECHL exists.



Just as a coincidence, Jack Johnson could also use one.

Buffalo needs leadership!

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Buffalo needs leadership!

@SabreSwordNews

Buffalo Sabres trade 1st round pick in 2021, 2022, and 2023 to the Penguins for GM/Coach/Player - Jack Johnson. #Sabresnews #pittsburghPenguins

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Just as a coincidence, Jack Johnson could also use one.

Wouldn't that be wonderful?

 

[Gurglesons]

Ristolainen seems like a guy who would greatly benefit from a change of scenery

They came out and called him a core player tho.

With Marino, I also don’t think we should be spending that type of cash on a player that plays like Letang does according to Pittsburgh fans.