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Sullivan gots to go!
I wonder if Fleury is harder to move than Kunitz right now. It's an interesting debate. Basically, if Kunitz were a goaltender he'd be unmovable, if Fleury were a winger he'd be able to net us a good 1st round pick in this year's draft, plus something else.
But the reverse? The goalie market RIGHT NOW appears to be down to 1 team, but Fleury is an upgrade for some other teams. That may factor in.
Kunitz, well only because of his strong playoff performance from the Tampa series on does he currently hold any value at all.
I say Fleury's contract is currently easier to move than Kunitz's.
Sometimes it is better just to declare victory and not **** things up.
This off season is kind of like marrying a Victoria's Secret's model, whose Daddy is a billionaire, who has a PHD, who flashes you more than a GOT's episode, can cook like a professional chef, and who loves hockey and begs you to take her to all the games.
And some people would look at that and say I need to cheat on her and **** it all up.
There is not a lot that the Pens need to do this off season, all the key parts are coming back and are either in their prime or are young.
All they have to do is some minor moves. Fleury mostly, and even that only depends on the finalization of the expansion rules, and not **** it up.
Giving Maatta away, or some other things like that would **** it up.
I think they need to do a little more than you are suggesting. We really don't know if Bryan Rust can be a complementary winger for the first or second line. We really don't know if Matthew Murray is going to come back down to earth. We really don't know what to make of Conor Sheary. We hope the defense holds just as well as it did in the playoffs. We hope Letang, Malkin, Maatta and Crosby stay healthy all season.
This isn't a perfect Cup champion, where you just sit back and look at everybody else making moves. This is more or less the 2009 team, except the franchise players are older, wiser but not nearly as dominant. Sure, having Kessel helps them a great deal.
We need to add at least one scoring winger. We need to add at least one depth defenseman and we need further development from the aforementioned Rust, Murray, Sheary, plus Sundqvist, Wilson, Bennett, Pouliot, Jarry and others down on the farm.
It took us 7 seasons to get the Cup back. Seven long seasons. Ray Shero was fairly complacent during most of those 7 seasons, and it cost us dearly. He did not make the right moves when he wasn't complacent, either.
Rutherford does not have the reputation of complacency, but he also did not build upon his first Cup champion in Carolina, progressively making the team worse.
This is an important off-season for this team. Since Rutherford and management have already been hard at work planning for next season, why shouldn't we be in that line of thinking right now?
You are going to get a group of people going if a trade isn't done by noon. We are 1 week and 2 days removed from the Cup. The Awards show is where most of the talks start. The draft is Friday. Once the draft happens, we still have a week before July 1.
