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GDT: Free Agency: Dr Strangedubas or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nerd
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AjaxTelamon
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Would be far better than Granlund being your shut down center and PK'r.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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I love it when these puffed up slime merchants like Eklund and Rossi imply that Crosby sits around all free agency secretly pulling the strings and pitching fits about who he wants on the team.
Or he’s trying to trade for a goalie? Considering none of the ones available have been moved yet
I've been busy today so haven't paid a ton of attention here.
Ek65 will be fun though. Hope Dubas gets that done. f*** it.
Ek65 will be fun though. Hope Dubas gets that done. f*** it.
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Well does Boston need to move Ullmark or Swayman anymore? Helle doesn’t need to be moved now either if the Jets don’t get their price and he’s likely not moving…not many other options apparently available vis trade
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MrBrightside
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Rossi just posted this on The Athletic live blog:
Penguins are monitoring, though.
They also remain interested in Noah Hanifin, whom they targeted as a potential top-four addition on defense. The Penguins are one of many clubs that have checked in with the Flames about Hanifin, and the feeling in Pittsburgh is there are not enough assets to make a deal work — even if Hanifin would be interested in signing an extension in Pittsburgh, as he is.
So, to summarize, Dubas is thinking big with regard to potentially changing up the Penguins' defense corps. But with limited assets other than cap space, deals are viewed within the organization as unlikely unless something breaks in the Penguins' favor.
Dubas encouraged his scouts to take big swings at NHL Draft. He appears to have taken some with personnel moves. But it's contact, not swings, that make for hits
The latest with the Penguins, Erik Karlsson and Noah Hanifin
While Kyle Dubas has inquired with the Sharks about defenseman Erik Karlsson, the belief in Pittsburgh is that Hurricanes and Kraken are far more likely to land him via a trade. Dubas was doing due diligence, but the deal would be very complicated to do on the Penguins' terms.Penguins are monitoring, though.
They also remain interested in Noah Hanifin, whom they targeted as a potential top-four addition on defense. The Penguins are one of many clubs that have checked in with the Flames about Hanifin, and the feeling in Pittsburgh is there are not enough assets to make a deal work — even if Hanifin would be interested in signing an extension in Pittsburgh, as he is.
So, to summarize, Dubas is thinking big with regard to potentially changing up the Penguins' defense corps. But with limited assets other than cap space, deals are viewed within the organization as unlikely unless something breaks in the Penguins' favor.
Dubas encouraged his scouts to take big swings at NHL Draft. He appears to have taken some with personnel moves. But it's contact, not swings, that make for hits
HandshakeLine
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Big Friggin Dummy
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It's wholly unrealistic but it'd be fun to walk out of this summer having removed Granlund, Carter, Petry and ended up with Nylander and Karlsson. 
Sure, they'd have to get like Jeff Taffe to be 4C, but who gives a f***.
Sure, they'd have to get like Jeff Taffe to be 4C, but who gives a f***.
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They’re gonna try to trap their way into the playoffs. Tortz vibes, nothing much they can do tbh.
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I mean the issue is even having those two still on the books. You get an easy out with Granlund on a buyout and you don’t take it. Hard to trust management if they think Granlund can be anything but a floater on a team that barely makes the playoffs.
If that’s the approach package Jake for something.
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Eric Karlsson AND Noah Hanifin
Do it you cowards.
Do it you cowards.
AuroraBorealis
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Rossi loves wrapping things up with passive-aggressive one-liners. What a dick.
Rumor has it that the holdup on the Karlsson deal is Karlsson's insistence on a public confession and apology from Matt Cooke.
AjaxTelamon
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Hopefully they trade him to Arizona to rekindle the Minny connection with Zuck. Who signed exactly the kind of deal with exactly the kind of team I expected. Our local sports guys repeatedly saying Zucker would sign some long term deal with a similar cap hit to what he had were smoking the good stuff.
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The real paradigm shift is that Dubas acquires Karlsson to play wing.
Josey Wales
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Gerbil Boy doesn't know anymore than he heard from LeBrun & Friedmann he always tries to make the story about him
Kristopher Letang
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Going left field with Karlsson is way better than a surprise Granlund trade. Can’t complain
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