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[Gurglesons]

Good points. But Letang is simply made of glass. At some point, availability is better than ability. The team needs to move on.

Made of glass?

God this forum is stupid as hell.

How does Reaves prevent this?

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[DegenX]

via CapFriendly
Pearson for Gudbranson trade thread is here.
W-B/S thread is here.

 

[pensfan71]

I'll update this with screen caps soon ...

Plz don't

 

[mpp9]

While JR was busy ruining this team's chances the next 3 years.....

Vegas getting Stone is badass. Perfectly fair contract as well considering he's a ppg selke level forward.

Nashville not getting such a forward isn't ideal, but Simmonds and Granlund isn't bad.

SJ is about as good as it gets on paper.

Gotta respect Columbus for going all in. Outside of Tampa, the East is still wide open.

Boston needed more.

 

[KIRK]

I'll update this with screen caps soon ...

Please don't.

I'm depressed enough as is.

All of this is @ColePens fault. 'Sell my soul' for another cup he said . . .

'I'd give anything' for the B2B he said . . .

 

[SaucyCelly]

Not how I thought this TDL was gonna go

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Sir David Attenborough: "And what we see here, is an old, senile NHL GM, effectively destroying the Cup window for his franchise despite having two of the best players ever to play the game on his roster with, at the very least, two or three years of high quality hockey left."

Seriously though--people will cry "chicken little" about the reactions around here today, but this is unequivocally a terrible day for this team, now as well as into the future.

We had a get out of jail free card with Seattle potentially taking Johnson, if it came to that, assuming we traded them a pick or roster player to do so. But Gudbranson's potentially worse, has years left on his ($4 million a year!) deal, and we still have a bunch of other problems to deal with.

What's happened in the last 6 months, going back to Jack Johnson's signing, is effectively JR seeing a team with a metaphorical broken foot, and he decides to break its arm to take attention away from the foot.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Yeah i gotta just get HF for a bit otherwise my head will explode.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I still maintain that Kessel isn't a Penguin come October. I was hopeful, potentially optimistic about the return, but now I am filled with dread thinking about what JR is going to get back for our most valuable, tradeable asset.

 

[genomalkin71]

No playoffs for us.

 

[66-30-33]

Can someone explain to me how this team can afford the D next season?

Dumo-Letang
Maatta-Schultz
JJ-Gudbranson
Pettersson

That's like 25M in cap space.

 

[Pancakes]

I still maintain that Kessel isn't a Penguin come October. I was hopeful, potentially optimistic about the return, but now I am filled with dread thinking about what JR is going to get back for our most valuable, tradeable asset.

Of course he's not going to be a Penguin. He'll be gone to Edmonton for a 2nd round pick and Milan Lucic.

 

[canadianguy77]

No playoffs for us.

Not for a few years at least. What a waste.

 

[Pancakes]

Can someone explain to me how this team can afford the D next season?

Dumo-Letang
Maatta-Schultz
JJ-Gudbranson
Pettersson

That's like 25M in cap space.

Kessel gone for scraps or Kessel gone for Lucic with Edmonton eating half Lucic's salary.

 

[DesertPenguin]

Can someone explain to me how this team can afford the D next season?

Dumo-Letang
Maatta-Schultz
JJ-Gudbranson
Pettersson

That's like 25M in cap space.

Maatta is a goner.

 

[mpp9]

I still maintain that Kessel isn't a Penguin come October. I was hopeful, potentially optimistic about the return, but now I am filled with dread thinking about what JR is going to get back for our most valuable, tradeable asset.

If Mario and Burkle were also behind the moves to get "tougher" then we're f***ed because JR isn't gonna get fired for the most recent incarnation of it.

I expect Phil to go this summer. And the return on that trade will determine if this team's window is truly shut.

 

[Kiith Nabaal]

Soooo yeah, who at lw is replacing Pearson now?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Of course he's not going to be a Penguin. He'll be gone to Edmonton for a 2nd round pick and Milan Lucic.

Not right now. Not at this point in my life. Please, sir.

 

[K Fleur]

So which move is gonna be looked at as the end of the Crosby/Malkin era?

I want to say this Gudbranson trade, but I’m thinking the JJ signing is more accurate.

 

[Shady Machine]

Can we go back to July of 2017 and just re-sign Bones and Daley and forget all this happened?

Or hell, let's just go back to when Hagelin and Big Rig were here. I'll even take that.

 

[mpp9]

Soooo yeah, who at lw is replacing Pearson now?

If it allows Blueger to get a look in the top 9, then at least that's a positive.

 

[The Old Master]

can we just take this to the nhl and have them void the trades using them as proof that are gm is not in his right mind?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

If Mario and Burkle were also behind the moves to get "tougher" then we're ****ed because JR isn't gonna get fired for the most recent incarnation of it.

I expect Phil to go this summer. And the return on that trade will determine if this team's window is truly shut.

I think it's shut. You just don't win with a blueline that employs Jack Johnson and Erik Gudbranson. I don't care if you have Dumoulin and Letang as your top pair, or if you have guys like Sid, Geno, Jake, Hornqvist, Rust, Bjugstad and McCann in your top-9. That combination of JJ and Gudbranson is going to be too much to overcome for a couple of aging megastars and a forward corps that's got its own laundry list of issues.

 

[KIRK]

I still maintain that Kessel isn't a Penguin come October. I was hopeful, potentially optimistic about the return, but now I am filled with dread thinking about what JR is going to get back for our most valuable, tradeable asset.

He won't be.

But, now you're a lot further than a Kessel trade away from a successful retool on the fly.

A LOT FURTHER.

 

[Andy99]

Kessel gone for scraps or Kessel gone for Lucic with Edmonton eating half Lucic's salary.

After these moves I expect a deal coming down the pike in the summer of Lucic and Kassian for Guentzel....