Salary Cap: Dr Dubas Cap Thread: He wants the Nurse

[3ladesof5teel]

He claimed it was a shoulder injury, but, in reality, the team was awful.

I was down there the day he quit.....left his hockey bag and everything

Dude was like "I'm done with this......I'm out"

 

[Lustaf]

Pagnotta listing penguins among teams interested in Robertson is cute.

Unless Dallas truly values Rust or Rakell as a cheap alternative and then ask for our 1st and much more I’m not sure how you make that trade happen.

 

[Andy99]

Pagnotta listing penguins among teams interested in Robertson is cute.

Unless Dallas truly values Rust or Rakell as a cheap alternative and then ask for our 1st and much more I’m not sure how you make that trade happen.

Exactly…we have zilch and we shouldn’t be giving up any of Murashov, Kindel or Brunicke for a winger…

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

I have an interest in a few of the women at my gym.

Same difference.

 

[Andy99]

I have an interest in a few of the women at my gym.

Same difference.

Do they all look like Margot Robbie?

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

I was down there the day he quit.....left his hockey bag and everything

Dude was like "I'm done with this......I'm out"

If he would have stuck around he would have been part of a top six with a rookie Evgeni Malkin.

 

[Andy99]

Does Yohe actually listen to himself lol? This is great argument for just selling and tanking…putting all our eggs in one player isn’t going to make us a contender…and stop paying draft picks for Dom Simon, I mean Lapierre!

 

[Koivunsons]

Let me know when dubas has 3 top 4 picks in 4 years and 4 top 7 in five years.

Grier traded a recent 7th overall for the #9 pick.

Let me know when Dubas has the balls to collapse his franchise and retain on his big dogs like Grier did.

 

[Darren McCord]

Let me know when Dubas has the balls to collapse his franchise and retain on his big dogs like Grier did.

It’s easy to collapse a franchise that collapsed on itself after 2016. Grier paid 2 2nd and 6 million for a guy who’s most likely a 3rd liner.

Let me know when his team does something

 

[Zirakzigil]

You're not wrong.

Karlsson for MacT?

People are going to hate it when EK extends to stay with Sid

 

[Pancakes]

Let me know when Dubas has the balls to collapse his franchise and retain on his big dogs like Grier did.

And where has that gotten San Jose? Still can't make the playoffs even with the best player to enter the league since McDavid.

 

[Ryder71]

Real talk, Horcoff, Zonnon, Pickering and 22OA would not bother me in the slightest.

Hell no! Not for Robertson that's arguably three of your top five young assets.

We're NOT a Robertson away from competing, not even close.

All that would do is keep us in the mushy middle, no thanks!

 

[AuroraBorealis]

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/video/geoff-hoffmann-introduction-6399378217112

It's nice that this time ownership has a representative that knows more about hockey.

 

[thevelvetfog]

Oh, I don’t think we are beyond a playoff team, but I don’t think we are top 10 draft pick without significant injury and I think you’re overrating how bad the D is.

Also we will be adding some cap at some point.

FWIW, we have the 9th longest odds to win the '27 Cup, so professional bettors think we are in top 10 draft pick territory.

 

[BusinessGoose]

There is literally no reason to post anything from any media right now

They're all saying i am hearing that every player is in play and every team is working the phones, time will tell if the deals can get done at the prices the GMs want

No f***ing shit

 

[DesertPenguin]

People are going to hate it when EK extends to stay with Sid

Kinda hoping he does.

 

[HandshakeLine]

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/video/geoff-hoffmann-introduction-6399378217112

It's nice that this time ownership has a representative that knows more about hockey.

Still can't fully wrap my head around the idea of being from Boston, buying a hockey franchise and not having anyone in the organization who understood the game.

 

[thevelvetfog]

Lot's of shoes left to drop in the next 30 hours.

• Requested Trades: Larkin, Nurse
• Pending RFAs: Robertson, Mintyukov, Zellweger
• Rumored guys like McTavish, EP40, Knies, Thomas, Trockek, Nikishin, Zary, Tippett, Reilly
• Does OTT do more to replace Tkachuk? GM sure seemed like he wanted to pump the whole trade return directly into the lineup.
• Buffalo made out well on the Byram trade, but between Byram and Tuch they're a weaker team now than when the season ended. Do they weaponize that 4OA to get back to or above where they were?
• Florida, Carolina and others need goaltending. Bob, Hellebuyck?
• SJS needs RHS defensemen. #2 seems too high, #9 too low for the sweetspot on those guys.
• Lots of "contenders" still quiet: EDM, MIN, MTL, VGK

Helle to BUF for #4 OA makes a lot of sense. I could also see EK going to either BUF or SJ - both would be a great fit for what they need (not for the long term in SJ, of course). Not sure if SJ cares about draft spot if they like the RHS defenseman. I imagine there will be a lot of action with this list on July 1 if it doesn't happen before/at the draft.

 

[thevelvetfog]

Serevalli saying that the Canes offered 1st+Nikishin for Helle. If that's true I don't know what Chevy is waiting for. No one's beating that

BUF has picks #4 and #20 (and a lot of good young players), whereas CAR's 1st is #31, which is essentially a 2nd round pick. I think BUF can beat CAR's offer and I hope they do.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Let me know when Dubas has the balls to collapse his franchise and retain on his big dogs like Grier did.

Grier wouldn't have razed the Sharks to the ground if their core had won 3 Cups and was still led by the best player of his generation instead of a group that accomplished precisely jack shit.

It's exceedingly easy to tear down nothing of substance.

 

[thevelvetfog]

Others have thrown out this idea before, but I wouldn't be that surprised to see Dubas throw out a fairly big UFA deal to Marchment on July 1st.

As long as it's only 1-2 years. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

 

[thevelvetfog]

I don't know if our room would get/keep Nuke on track, or if Nuke would poison the room with some of the young guys.

The bigger problem for me is that he is 31 with 4 years left on his contract. Seems like just setting ourselves up for another Rust/Rak situation, and that's a best-case scenario. We need guys on 1-2 year contracts so we can flip them quickly for assets and build up our young talent. Right now we have exactly 2 guys for the next core, and they're not even sure things.