Confirmed with Link: Wideman to Pitt
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I agree, with 3 of your top 4 defenseman out you had to pick up some depth. This trade is a good one for that. I wouldn’t mind the Gudbranson trade if he was making $2 million. $4 million for a bottom pairing defenseman and enforcer is way too much but desperate times call for desperate measures. Hopefully these guys can keep us afloat until Dumoulin and Letang are back. Sounds like Letang is just day to day so hopefully we have Dumoulin and Letang back in a week or two. Maatta by the playoffs and then we will be at full strength. 10 defenseman if they all get healthy. It would be very interesting to see who sits if they do all get back. This reminds me of the year we got Hainsey and Streit when we had all the defenseman out.
Like I said the only thing I don’t like is that cap hit on Gudbranson. We might have to do another Hunwick type trade this summer. Needed some toughness though because teams have really started taking liberties on our star players. We literally had no player to handle those situations and until the garage league officials start calling these goons infractions Gudbranson is needed or someone like him. Good to see he all ready beat up Wilson.
JR has completely lost the plot. It is true you need d to block shots but you can't have all the garbage on the ice at the same time...
TooManyHumans
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Ita pretty tough to get excited or pissed at any of these moves.
The likelihood of the team making serious noise in the playoffs was pretty low to begin with. I haven't checked the injury thread so I'm not sure how long letang will be out.
But that aside .. JJ and EG in the lineup at the same time is just .. ugh. Unless they are limited to under 10 min a game to minimize the damage, games are going to get a whole lot uglier before they get better.
The likelihood of the team making serious noise in the playoffs was pretty low to begin with. I haven't checked the injury thread so I'm not sure how long letang will be out.
But that aside .. JJ and EG in the lineup at the same time is just .. ugh. Unless they are limited to under 10 min a game to minimize the damage, games are going to get a whole lot uglier before they get better.
Zirakzigil
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come and take it.
just another waste of an asset, that we have too few of, and cost more than I want to pay for an ahl'er
Zirakzigil
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He wasnt an asset, he was AHL/waiver fodder. It was an AHLer for an AHLer. Neither probably sees time with the Pens the rest of the year.
Gurglesons
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Excited for the dream that our D could have been..
Johnson - Schultz
Pettersson - Wideman
Riikola - Ruh
Tomorrow and until Dumo and Letang are healthy.
Johnson - Schultz
Pettersson - Wideman
Riikola - Ruh
Tomorrow and until Dumo and Letang are healthy.
PensPlz
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Empoleon8771
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JS Dea was not an asset.
I get complaining about the Gudbranson deal, but this one is perfectly fine. Wideman may be the replacement for Ruhwedel when Ruhwedel walks this off-season.
If you read the thread, most of the negativity is about the Gubrandson deal which is spilling over to here. Not too many people care about this deal, it was an AHL tweener for an AHL tweener. Neither of these guys really even count as prospects anymore.
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