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

[Jdodd]

Well, if this is true we get pick #38 in the 2nd round!

 

[Ryder71]

Barring a major addition or PP clicking at a top 10 pace we'll finish in the bottom 8.

This is a bad roster and the good players are ancient.

 

[chethejet]

Pens are competing this year and I do think the second years of Karlsson and Graves will be better. Hayes was not someone I wanted but the pick and a lower end center is not a killer. Plus he can be moved at the TDL. St Ivany has to be good this year. A healthy Rakell, a full year with Bunting and Letang healthy and Jarry playing up to his potential and Pens are not that bad here. Pens prospects are much better in both depth and development so when the full blown transition kicks in, Pens have a decent balanced roster to work with.

 

[The Old Master]

Pens are competing this year and I do think the second years of Karlsson and Graves will be better. Hayes was not someone I wanted but the pick and a lower end center is not a killer. Plus he can be moved at the TDL. St Ivany has to be good this year. A healthy Rakell, a full year with Bunting and Letang healthy and Jarry playing up to his potential and Pens are not that bad here. Pens prospects are much better in both depth and development so when the full blown transition kicks in, Pens have a decent balanced roster to work with.

as long as sully stays, don't get your hopes up.

 

[Ryder71]

Pens are competing this year and I do think the second years of Karlsson and Graves will be better. Hayes was not someone I wanted but the pick and a lower end center is not a killer. Plus he can be moved at the TDL. St Ivany has to be good this year. A healthy Rakell, a full year with Bunting and Letang healthy and Jarry playing up to his potential and Pens are not that bad here. Pens prospects are much better in both depth and development so when the full blown transition kicks in, Pens have a decent balanced roster to work with.

Competing to be the bottom feeders of the division maybe. Which in the long run is a good thing.

 

[K Fleur]

Pens are competing this year and I do think the second years of Karlsson and Graves will be better. Hayes was not someone I wanted but the pick and a lower end center is not a killer. Plus he can be moved at the TDL. St Ivany has to be good this year. A healthy Rakell, a full year with Bunting and Letang healthy and Jarry playing up to his potential and Pens are not that bad here. Pens prospects are much better in both depth and development so when the full blown transition kicks in, Pens have a decent balanced roster to work with.

This roster doesn’t deserve 1/10 of the optimism in this post.

 

[Ryder71]

as long as sully stays, don't get your hopes up.

The personnel is more the issue. You can't ice a team where your best players are nearly 40 years old and expect anything but a long season. If Sid and Geno couldn't get it done a couple years back, they're not gonna do it being a couple years older as well as a couple years removed from the post season.

This roster doesn’t deserve 1/10 of the optimism in this post.

I'm optimistic we'll pick higher in the draft. That's about it.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Starting to hate "he can be moved at the TDL" as much as "PK specialist" or "vet leadership" tbh.

 

[Pens x]

Starting to hate "he can be moved at the TDL" as much as "PK specialist" or "vet leadership" tbh.

This

 

[PaulD]

Just read Dubass made a play to sign Tarasenko .
This guy never learns.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Harkins and Dumoulin will cause the Ducks to rise 60 points in the standings

When Harkins goes and pots a hatty in game one, I’m gonna just hang my head and have a looong cry.

Starting to hate "he can be moved at the TDL" as much as "PK specialist" or "vet leadership" tbh.

It’s up there with the most annoying cliches this site falls in love with and repeats uncritically for sure, but have you als I considered it’s a horrible coping mechanism for dudes pushing their mid 30s?

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Starting to hate "he can be moved at the TDL" as much as "PK specialist" or "vet leadership" tbh.

What if it's a PK specialist with veteran leadership that can be moved at the TDL?

 

[K Fleur]

How about a f***ing powerplay specialist.

A PP specialist if you will.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

What if it's a PK specialist with veteran leadership that can be moved at the TDL?

JACK JOHNSON?!

 

[BusinessGoose]

Sometimes I look at sid and geno and think damn they look old

Then I remember I'm a few years older than them

And look in the mirror... And come here to post angry comments

 

[Tom Hanks]

Sometimes I look at sid and geno and think damn they look old

Then I remember I'm a few years older than them

And look in the mirror... And come here to post angry comments

Sometimes I lay in bed and look up at the stars and think where the hell did my roof go.

 

[PaulD]

Sometimes I lay in bed and look up at the stars and think where the hell did my roof go.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Sometimes I look at sid and geno and think damn they look old

Then I remember I'm a few years older than them

And look in the mirror... And come here to post angry comments

He looks like a normal 37 to me, outside of more gray than usual at that age.
Malkin maybe looks 40.

If we're looking at Pens who look beat up for their years, Pettersson stands out. That's a rough 28. Those kinda guys tend to stabilize around 35+ though lol.