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Yohe yesterday: I don't think the Penguins will be making any big changes this off-season.
The reality is that the Pittsburgh media is filled with a bunch of guys who don't have a clue what they're talking about.
I think it's probably like what @KIRK said which is these guys get spoon fed info that JR/Mario etc want out in the news. Putting this article out lets other GMs know to start calling JR and asking about those guys. Then, JR listens and if he wants to move them, it happens, and if he doesn't, he reaches out to the media and they put out another article saying there's no truth to the rumors.
I mean that's more or less what they did with Letang last summer, right? Put it out there, JR got offers, JR almost did it, but then it fell through, and in the process of that JR put it out there that the rumors were false and the media ran with it.