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They're about to trade Tyler Myers to the Penguins and Hronek's to replace him in the lineup
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Mar 1, 2023 22:57
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Mike Works posted:WE ARE IN 6TH LAST IN THE LEAGUE, LET'S RETOOL ON THE FLY BABY, GOTTA GET RID OF OUR CAPTAIN BECAUSE WE SIGNED THIN BLUE LINE GUY, OH gently caress GOTTA TRADE THIN BLUE LINE GUY THAT CONTRACT IS TOO BIG WHO GAVE HIM THAT Sometimes I hate the thread title length limit. This is one of those times.
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Mar 1, 2023 23:35
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Jim Rutherford does not like having draft picks, and the higher they are the more he hates having them
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Mar 1, 2023 23:59
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Are you not allowed to like top-5 protect another team's pick when you trade it to a third team, or are you and Rutherford just didn't bother about it
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Mar 2, 2023 00:02
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I'm... surprised Hextall didn't top that for Chychrun and morbidly fascinated to see what he's about to pay for J.T. Miller or Tyler Myers.
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Mar 2, 2023 00:18
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I feel like the Canucks getting Bedard is the cruelest thing that could possibly happen for Canucks fans everywhere, most prominently Connor Bedard.
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Mar 2, 2023 00:25
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The Blues just moved Pareyko like yesterday didn't they
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Mar 2, 2023 00:29
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:that's so brutal. it's the most Canucks thing ever to start making a few decent acquisitions, flirt with a bit more of a rebuild, then just make an awful "rebuild on the fly" trade. pure lucy-pulling-away-the-football. If Arizona really made not taking any salary back an absolute requirement then there was nothing Hextall, or almost any other buyer-team GM, could do. I am getting a little panicky that the Penguins really are about to trade for Tyler Myers. The Canucks suddenly acquiring a RD for no apparent reason has made my blood pressure spike
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Mar 2, 2023 00:54
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Can you imagine the horror of Dumoulin/Myers
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Mar 2, 2023 01:02
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Did I mention the rumors that Jeff Petry is in play?
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Mar 2, 2023 01:04
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:With the signing all the old guys and then trading away our good young defenseman on a great contract for an ancient one on a bad contract, I'm starting to think Hextall doesn't have a loving plan for what he's doing I'm starting to think they're mostly not Hextall's decisions. e: no I'm lying, I have always assumed they are not Hextall's decisions and there is very little evidence that I am wrong. Just about every roster decision the Pens have made the past two years has Brian Burke written all over it. Anyway, Granlund. He is not better than Blueger, for more than twice the price, and his skillset both strengths and weaknesses is exactly what the Pens already have too much of. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Mar 2, 2023 02:18
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rex rabidorum vires posted:You are wrong because Burke would be torching first rounders left and right. Every single move has been so ponderously conservative with a 'we can't torch the future for this year' written all over them while Sid and Geno get closer and closer to retirement. It's 100% Hextall. You think Brian Burke would resign the floaty, enigmatic, and often disengaged European winger? Come on. You mean the one they just got rid of? Yes it is probable that the reluctance to part with first rounders is Hextall's influence. Definitely. But if you look at the actual players the Penguins have discarded, acquired, and re-signed the past couple years, almost every transaction has made the team older and slower. That's Burke all over. I feel pretty confident that as time has gone on Burke has gotten more and more involved and eventually The Athletic will publish a 15,000 word piece about how much he and Hextall hated each other by the end.
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Mar 2, 2023 02:27
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<--- still vehemently approves of the Penguins not trading draft picks for vets that don't move the needle
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Mar 2, 2023 02:29
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Pens fans have lost their minds. We've reached the final tantrum spiral stages of Boatmurdered. All burn.
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I'm at least glad they didn't trade for Tyler Myers. Yet! e: or extend Dumoulin. Yet!
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Mar 2, 2023 02:58
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Can't speak for the rest of PAS that's going batshit right now but as for me, they won three Cups in the Crosby era. Even if they never get near another Cup in my lifetime, that'll kinda suck but still totally worth it for the ride from December 2015 to June 2017. And just the privilege of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang all playing for my favorite team their whole careers at the same time. Most hockey fans will live long lives and die without ever being that lucky. So yeah the next ten years are going to be, to put it very mildly, Not Fun, but there's still Youtube and the SAS archives to relive the glory days on command. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to spend the rest of this season rooting for my favorite hockey team, Whoever's Playing The Bruins. They're having a real bad year.
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Mar 2, 2023 03:11
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Jamwad Hilder posted:Sure but like, it's not just "this era". I was born in 1990 and in my lifetime no one has more cups than Pittsburgh. Some of the greatest NHL players of all time were Penguins in that time period. Pittsburgh is probably the most successful franchise (in terms of on-ice performance) of the last 30+ years but trading a nothing draft pick for a guy who will probably be perfectly fine sends the fanbase into histrionics Despite the unfortunate last 5 years, that would still be the Red Wings. But yeah the Pens are right there.
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Mar 2, 2023 03:12
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Lemieux returning in 2000 was the most insane loving thing. I was in college and was friendly with a hockey playing Pens fanatic girl at the time. So great.
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Mar 2, 2023 03:34
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Bure and the Sedins and Luongo were cool and good but... yeah. 
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Mar 2, 2023 04:56
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Blueger is a competent and versatile bottom six forward. Doesn't do much creating or finishing but he can drive play and has a clue in his own end. Good depth pickup for a playoff team. The Penguins were making him look worse than he is because he's been playing on lines where none of the three players can create and or finish and often also with the indescribably play-dragging corpse of Brian Dumoulin, and also were taking a lot of D starts.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:01
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:like Eric said, and also he was a huge part of the Penguins PK so if the Knights are trying to give Karlsson easier assignments they should be able to free him up to focus on the offensive duties The Pens just blithely discarded Blueger to replace him with Granlund, meanwhile Dumoulin will continue playing 20+ a night, and I won't at all be surprised if their PK is bottom 5 in the league the rest of the way. In fact I'll be pretty surprised if it isn't.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:18
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And yeah, I've defended Burxstall insofar as the Pens' window is firmly closed now and it's stupid to trade draft picks for veterans now. But like everyone else I cannot comprehend the point of acquiring Mikael Granlund at all. He does absolutely nothing the Penguins need.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:20
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Nah, he won't. Someone else might, but Hextall will be fired this spring. My biggest fear though is that Hextall gets fired and Burke doesn't.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:22
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McGinn is not as good as Blueger
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Mar 2, 2023 16:32
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Yeah if Pastrnak decided to hit the open market and get every last dollar he could, even with the rampant collusion in the NHL, he'd get $13M/year easy
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Mar 2, 2023 16:33
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Ginette Reno posted:Really loving glad we nickel and dimed franchise legend Evgeni Malkin so that we could eventually bring in Mikael Granlund to make one million dollars less than him in cap and put out on ice impacts worse than Jeff Carter. Even if Granlund ends up playing better than I expect him to, it still won't make the Pens a better team. That's what gets me. Ultimately though none if it matters if they're not willing to get rid of Dumoulin. They cannot be a good team with him in the lineup.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:38
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The Bruins winning the Cup is only a foregone conclusion if Linus Ullmark continues to be vintage Dominik Hasek all the way through late June. (He won't.)
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Mar 2, 2023 16:41
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Real shame Teddy Blueger is off the market now
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Mar 3, 2023 00:44
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Awesome, the oldest team in the NHL gets even older
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Mar 3, 2023 14:23
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Vancouver: "no, we need a center" Also Vancouver: trades a high 1st for a defenseman
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Nice of Rutherford to save the Pens from their lame duck GM's flailing stupidity though, Rutherford owed them a solid after the debacle of his last couple years there.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Getting the band together for one last hurrah. Now do Phil Kessel
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The level of betrayal I felt when the Canucks announced they'd refused a Get Out Of Miller Free card plus a couple picks tore something away from me that I'll never be able to recover. It tore away my ability to respect anything, and it tore away my ability to feel human. (Bottom line, Rutherford just gave him that contract less than a year ago and no way in hell was he going to admit this soon that he'd made a gigantic mistake)
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Ginette Reno posted:The only bit of news we've heard about FSG's thinking at all is that they asked Hextall what his plan was (he allegedly told them he didn't have it in writing and that it was in his head I love Sullivan as a coach but if he's going to gain significant control over personnel that's a bad moon rising IMO. It might be time for him to move on.
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Mar 3, 2023 17:43
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T-Bone posted:Man the Pens having their dad's trip during the deadline has gotta be weird. Poor McGinn dad Was Sami Kapanen gonna be there?
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Mar 3, 2023 23:11
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Always great how the fans of every single team not in the top four in its conference at any given time passionately believe the GM is an idiot and borderline criminal and should be fired a month ago.
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Zodijackylite posted:After reading that article, I looked at the Flyers CapFriendly page and saw that they acquired a UFA rental in Brendan Lemieux and didn't trade UFAs JVR and Justin Braun. They have their own 1st this year, but their 2nd was traded for Ristolainen. They have an extra 3rd from trading Justin Braun at the deadline last year, as well as from the Giroux trade, but they traded their own 3rd away in the DeAngelo trade. They also have an extra 4th (Brassard) and 6th (Patrick Brown) this year. They also traded their 2nd and 5th next year. Never fear, Chuck Fletcher has a plan. It's a secret plan. In fact it's so secret that not even he knows what it is. But it's gonna blow your mind like whoooooaaaaa. You're in good hands, Flyers fans. e: god loving drat it why is every post I make either the 40th or the 1st post on a page 
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Tampa continues to somehow stay lowkey but legit the dirtiest team in the league
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