GDT: Free Agency: Dr Strangedubas or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nerd

[Shrimper]

Just saw wood only at 2.5 but Eller at 2.4. Tf?

Wood is lower as he got term, no?

 

[pensfan71]

Domi, Tarasenko, Bertuzzi, Kane. Lots of big names have not signed.

Nope. Here’s the full list (The ones without a logo next to their name)

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Interesting...a few players I do like on there like Suter

 

[wheelz87]

Rutta is my guess, but I hope it's not so.

It’d suck to lose him while Petry just decays here over the years

 

[eXile3]

There's a difference between having unreal expectations of who were going to sign and giving Lars Eller who scored 23 points in 84 games as our 3C.

 

[Josey Wales]

No one in this thread had any GM experience. That has never stopped anyone from sharing their opinion.

& Beavis I have the same right to rip them

 

[Pens x]

You probably expected us to get Duchene, ROR, Schenn, Hellebuyck today.

Never happening

Buy out Granlund, sign Bunting
Sign Acciari and Graves

It ain’t that hard

 

[WickedWrister]

& Beavis I have the same right to rip them

How would you grade all of our signings then?

 

[Ryder71]

Very unremarkable, certainly not as daring as JR to be sure. Doesn't extract the value that Shero did either.

 

[Jacob]

What if Carter is just getting LTIRed.

 

[Pens x]

You don't rebuild if you want Geno and Sid to hang around

You don’t take this half ass approach. Go for it for two years then. This bare minimum approach has to piss them off.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Yeah he probably has the best shot on our D.

The issue is Sullivan's going to use him as a shutdown D and he's going to get absolutely roasted.

I think he can do a similar job to what Pettersson does for us. But the problem is I think our defense corps needed someone *better* than Pettersson's level, not just a second version of him (better shooting version).

 

[wheelz87]

2 years vs 6. Devils fans saying he's not been the same since his surgery, so don't mind missing out on Woods.

Yea 6 years is outrageous no doubt. I’d go to 3 mil for a more reasonable contract. But yea I did hear he isn’t quite the same. (heard that with Eller too though)

 

[Turin]

I'm sticking to Karlsson until it's denied or he goes to Seattle.

But out of the players left there is some decent depth. Bertuzzi, Rodrigues (lol watch him screw himself again), Domi, Sundqvist, Kerfoot, Suter, Fischer, Yamamoto.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I wonder if the Caps' board is losing their minds that they lost out on the top free agents and haven't traded for premiere, game-changing talent. Anybody who is like "The Caps suck and are dead in the water!" while being pissed about how today played out for the Pens probably have to take a step back and reevaluate a little bit.

What if Carter is just getting LTIRed.

Don't give me that hope.

 

[Josey Wales]

How would you grade all of our signings then?

I let people who actually have their Jobs on the line worry about ! see at some point you have to grow up & stop being a Golden Jock Sniffer

 

[eXile3]

What if Carter is just getting LTIRed.

I thought about that after Dubas comments. It kind of sounded like he was hinting at someone going on LTIR or some other cap circumvention.

 

[Shrimper]

Buy out Granlund, sign Bunting
Sign Acciari and Graves

It ain’t that hard

We were never going to buy out Granlund

Bunting is overrated

 

[Dick Sledge]

Don’t you need the owner’s approval for a buyout? There’s just way too many variables with every decision to make anything definitively straight forward as “this is what I would do hur dur “

 

[Pens x]

I'm sticking to Karlsson until it's denied or he goes to Seattle.

But out of the players left there is some decent depth. Bertuzzi, Rodrigues (lol watch him screw himself again), Domi, Sundqvist, Kerfoot, Suter, Fischer, Yamamoto.

And now we have no cap room for real NHL players.

 

[Josey Wales]

There's a difference between having unreal expectations of who were going to sign and giving Lars Eller who scored 23 points in 84 games as our 3C.

UMMMM who were they signing instead ??

 

[Shrimper]

Is it possible we could trade for an LTIR candidate?

 

[Pens x]

Don’t you need the owner’s approval for a buyout? There’s just way too many variables with every decision to make anything definitively straight forward as “this is what I would do hur dur “

Deep pockets, right?

 

[Turin]

What if Carter is just getting LTIRed.

Carter out indefinitely with rigor mortis.

 

[Shrimper]

UMMMM who were they signing instead ??

Obviously Duchene. He'd choose us...right?

 

[Gurglesons]

I wonder if the Caps' board is losing their minds that they lost out on the top free agents and haven't traded for premiere, game-changing talent. Anybody who is like "The Caps suck and are dead in the water!" while being pissed about how today played out for the Pens probably have to take a step back and reevaluate a little bit.

Don't give me that hope.

The caps are selling out pieces for picks, having great drafts, and doing great things to actually build their team for the future.