GDT: Free Agency Day 1: You're from Boston? Come on down

[Turin]

Sucks to lose POJ for nothing but meh, he didn’t have any value. Hope he does well in St. Louis.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

What other teams need D atm?

unsure with over 100 contracts signed in a day I am not yet well conversed in team Needs.

 

[Bishop7979]

What would be wrong with adding tank? It would be a one year deal, he would slot in with Geno and bunting and prob push rak up with sid.

That's a solid top six, and gives them another asset to trade to a contender at the deadline if it looks like they are going to miss the playoffs again.


Let everyone else battle it out in the bottom six. It's not like you have to play Hayes/Beau if they suck, Beau can be demoted and most of his cap hit goes with him and eller/acari can be traded for positive assets if any of poulin/poolparty/pomo/broz/gruden/ect somehow look better.

It's not like this team suddenly is flush with young nhl talent and at least as of now no trades have been made to bring anyone in so you gotta play someone. If the kids that are avail can't beat out washed up guys like Hayes, ahos, and the beauvilles of the NHL they shouldn't play. It's a low freaking bar.



It's literally day two of the actual off-season and everyone is losing their shit.

 

[IcedCapp]

I'll add this too, @IcedCapp . You call me not being a fan for wanting the team to do everything it can to win again ASAP (which is absurd btw).
I call the people who are willing to eat 5+ years of unnecessary futility just to watch the core play more, "non-fans".
They are Core-3 fans, not Pittsburgh Penguins fans. A real Pittsburgh Penguins fan wants the team to succeed. Top priority.

I specifically said I wasn’t gatekeeping your fandom. You’re a fan. I just don’t understand being a fan and your disdain for the Sid / Geno / Letang situation.

 

[Bishop7979]

And good on POJ for moving on, in st.louis he will get to play with his brother and honestly I could see him doing well there.

 

[orby]

POJ is a competent bottom pairing defenseman. I may live to eat my words, but I don't think he has show any indication that he'll progress beyond that point. I wish him the best.

 

[rdd8771]

Can we just get Tarasenko already so I can get excited about something about this team even if it's false hope.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Tank wouldn't help "the rebuild" so we aren't allowed to pull for that.

 

[IcedCapp]

His name is literally Tank. Not sure how he doesn’t help the rebuild

 

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But, did the AI think you would make a good GM?

 

[Gurglesons]

But, did the AI think you would make a good GM?

I wish I could find that Flyers blog that called me out.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

His name is literally Tank. Not sure how he doesn’t help the rebuild

Tarasenko is Russian for "We're going to contend but also collect assets."

 

[IcedCapp]

Tarasenko is Russian for "We're going to contend but also collect assets."

I hope we’re 1st in the division at the TDL AND we sell

 

[66-30-33]

But, did the AI think you would make a good GM?

GPT 4-o or Claude Sonnet 3.5? I don't really use them.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I hope we’re 1st in the division at the TDL AND we sell

And I'll bitch about it, regardless!

 

[Gurglesons]

I hope we’re 1st in the division at the TDL AND we sell

We aren't the Caps.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I specifically said I wasn’t gatekeeping your fandom. You’re a fan. I just don’t understand being a fan and your disdain for the Sid / Geno / Letang situation.

I explained it very clearly in the first response, so you should understand now.
I want the team to win again, which I know is insane to many. Others are older viewers who are sated and don't give a crap anymore about Cups for the Penguins. I understand that, but I don't consider them Penguins fans.
That's not gatekeeping either. That's just reality. They don't care about the team's results, so how can I call them a Penguins fan? They are merely fans of a few select players now. Most of the players they don't care about at all.

I don't believe in coasting in sports with any team, with any level of success. So here we are.
If the Pens won 10 Cups in 10 years, I would want them to go 100% in year 11. What's in the past is in the past. You focus on the task at hand. You always strive to progress, to win.
In our case we need to rebuild before a Cup happens, so better get to it asap instead of messing around.

 

[Harvey Birdman]

That's an unnecessary risk. What if he sucks this year and decreases his value? His value is at its peak right now. Now is the time to strike.

I cant get any of the cap sites to load on this amazing internet I have right now so I am having to go off of memeory. He has a NTC right? Something like 8 teams he can be traded or not traded. Again going off of pure memory.

We aren't the Caps.

If we could be in that old South East division the Caps were in... We may have a chance... Maybe...

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Does Dubas have a Napoleon complex? Seems like the only players he's signing are guys who are much smaller than him.

If this keeps up, Sid's going to be our "giant" at 5'11 and 200 lbs.

 

[IcedCapp]

And I'll bitch about it, regardless!

ha HA. You misunderstood. I hope they’re in 1st AND THEY SELL THE TEAM. To Gritty

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

ha HA. You misunderstood. I hope they’re in 1st AND THEY SELL THE TEAM. To Gritty

You can't say that wouldn't be way more fun than being owned by a bunch of investment bros.

 

[Empoleon8771]

POJ's far too middling for me to even remotely care about not keeping him.

Too lanky to be an effective DFD, not enough offensive upside to be an effective OFD.

 

[Turin]

Yea I’m on the Tank train. I was so bummed when Ray didn’t get to trade up with Ottawa to take him before St. Louis. This slightly rectifies that tragedy.

O’Connor-Crosby-Rust
Bunting-Malkin-Tarasenko
Beauvillier-Eller-Rakell
Lizotte-Hayes-Puustinen

 

[Ryder71]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807922414682267842

Thank God

Dammit!

 

[ChaosAgent]

I explained it very clearly in the first response, so you should understand now.
I want the team to win again, which I know is insane to many. Others are older viewers who are sated and don't give a crap anymore about Cups for the Penguins. I understand that, but I don't consider them Penguins fans.
That's not gatekeeping either. That's just reality. They don't care about the team's results, so how can I call them a Penguins fan? They are merely fans of a few select players now. Most of the players they don't care about at all.

I don't believe in coasting in sports with any team, with any level of success. So here we are.
If the Pens won 10 Cups in 10 years, I would want them to go 100% in year 11. What's in the past is in the past. You focus on the task at hand. You always strive to progress, to win.
In our case we need to rebuild before a Cup happens, so better get to it asap instead of messing around.

At this point though there is very little additional tearing down we can do.

Jarry tanked his value last year. Our best path forward with him is letting him build it back up.
Rust is on a restrictive NMC for another year.
Karlsson would take our remaining retention spot and may have more value at the TDL or next off-season (when we'll have more retention spots).
Rakell would take a retention spot and could rebuild his value this year
Petts is the ONLY example where we may be leaving some value on the table by not selling now. At the same time, we don't know if Dubas has been offered a 1st for him. I don't think his value would drop much by the deadline, if at all.

I also am cool buying this year if we think we can get to the final 8 or so. There's value in playoff hockey and excitement, and it's not infeasible to think this team and these Hall of Famers can figure their stuff out on the Powerplay. If they bomb, then the sell off can really begin at the TDL and next off-season.