Salary Cap: Garbage Day collection comes early!

[Ulf5]

 

[SEALBound]

Sam Steel and Nils Lundkvist not qualified by Dallas… anything there?

You can get Steels in FA for cheap so no. Lundqvist, potentially. That would be a name I would sign for the bottom pairing.

And TIOPS weighs in…he makes Dubas sound even worse than he really is lol…are we ever going to start developing young players on this club?

Who knows if these TIOPS rumors have any weight, but here they are:
Penguins, Isles in mix for Arvidsson?: Another 30 year old+ addition? Would be on a short-term deal, but rumblings had the Penguins, Islanders among four teams in the mix to sign winger Viktor Arvidsson Monday. Penguins are said to be very high on Arvidsson as a short term option.

PO Latest: Buzz among agents is the Penguins have something lined up for a left handed defenseman via trade or free agency that has led to some questions surrounding P.O. Joseph’s future in Pittsburgh.

A 2yr deal with Arvidsson would be in line with what Dubas talked about. He would slot nicely in the top 6 and in 2 years, not be blocking any young guys (at this time). So I would be 100% on board with him.

POJ scares me a bit if Lilegren got $3mil x 2yrs and Durzi got $6mil for 4 years. That would but POJ in the $3-4mil for 3 years range with a lot for a long time. I might rather no QO him or trade him and then sign Lundqvist and or Boqvist to anchor the 5/6/7 slot along side JSI and another guy like Ryan Shea.

I think POJ would have decent trade value - a 3rd or 4th I would imagine. Or like we've long said, a swap for a similar forward.

 

[Ryder71]

Wonder if we circle back to Laine.

 

[Tom Hanks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807475251371995437

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807526761841775058

 

[SEALBound]

He's a big boy. But he's a waivers / FA 6/7/8 guy.

 

[Ryder71]

You can get Steels in FA for cheap so no. Lundqvist, potentially. That would be a name I would sign for the bottom pairing.

A 2yr deal with Arvidsson would be in line with what Dubas talked about. He would slot nicely in the top 6 and in 2 years, not be blocking any young guys (at this time). So I would be 100% on board with him.

POJ scares me a bit if Lilegren got $3mil x 2yrs and Durzi got $6mil for 4 years. That would but POJ in the $3-4mil for 3 years range with a lot for a long time. I might rather no QO him or trade him and then sign Lundqvist and or Boqvist to anchor the 5/6/7 slot along side JSI and another guy like Ryan Shea.

I think POJ would have decent trade value - a 3rd or 4th I would imagine. Or like we've long said, a swap for a similar forward.

I like Arvidsson a lot, but he's injury prone.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807475251371995437

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807526761841775058

I actually helped Max come up with that.

 

[SEALBound]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807475251371995437

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807526761841775058

Lol, all time tweet. Atta boy Domi!

Re: Pinto - he's the type of youth you get to help now. An offer sheet for a 1st and 3rd is a bit but if Ottawa would take that in a trade, I think I would do it.

 

[Sideline]

How is like every teams info in which players they qualified or not out, except for us?
The deadline passed, yeah?
But still no word on POJ

Nothing on the team twitter either.

 

[Ulf5]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807475251371995437

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807526761841775058

Very, very interesting Watson.

 

[Ryder71]

Lol, all time tweet. Atta boy Domi!

Re: Pinto - he's the type of youth you get to help now. An offer sheet for a 1st and 3rd is a bit but if Ottawa would take that in a trade, I think I would do it.

We could be a lottery team, so no way!

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Remember offseason 2015 when we got Kessel? That ruled.

Kessel retained**

 

[Ulf5]

 

[Gurglesons]

Jersey really doing some weird shit lol.

 

[BrookswasHere44]

No offer for POJ

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

What in the actual 6 piece 11 herbs and spiced Kentucky fried f*** is Tom Fitzgerald doing lol?

 

[ThosePuckingPenguins]

No offer for POJ

That kind of surprises me.

 

[Tom Hanks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807543968634442004

 

[eXile3]

No offer for POJ

Doesn’t surprise me. He’s a NHL level player at this point but very replaceable. The odds of him becoming anything more seem slight.

Though maybe getting away from this awful coaching staff will help him.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Shame they couldn't trade POJ for a similarly stagnated forward of around the same age.

Ah well. Dude kinda sucked shit outside of like 10 games as a Penguin.

 

[Gurglesons]

Doesn’t surprise me. He’s a NHL level player at this point but very replaceable. The odds of him becoming anything more seem slight.

Though maybe getting away from this awful coaching staff will help him.

But @DesertedPenguin told me we couldn’t get paid to take Walman because POJ needed minutes next season.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I don't think POJ not getting a QO is all that surprising. He's arb eligible, doesn't particularly fit what the team is looking for on LD and wasn't particularly good last year either.

He's just too lanky for me to think he'll be anything more than a #5/6 to a physical RHD. I don't mind them moving on because I wasn't all that crazy about POJ-Letang as a pair for next year.

Also this is another lol on Yohe, because Yohe said the Penguins weren't going to do anything with the defense this year and POJ would be back with Letang. So much for that.

 

[Gurglesons]

I don't think POJ not getting a QO is all that surprising. He's arb eligible, doesn't particularly fit what the team is looking for on LD and wasn't particularly good last year either.

He's just too lanky for me to think he'll be anything more than a #5/6 to a physical RHD. I don't mind them moving on because I wasn't all that crazy about POJ-Letang as a pair for next year.

Also this is another lol on Yohe, because Yohe said the Penguins weren't going to do anything with the defense this year and POJ would be back with Letang. So much for that.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807545687904788547

But this chart.

 

[Empoleon8771]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807545687904788547

But this chart.

I mean that chart says he's not particularly good either

He's a bottom pair guy you need a specific partner to compensate for his weaknesses. I think that chart basically shows the same thing.

 

[Gurglesons]

I mean that chart says he's not particularly good either

He's a bottom pair guy you need a specific partner to compensate for his weaknesses. I think that chart basically shows the same thing.

It’s really frustrating we gave Ty Smith no NHL runway so we could not qualify POJ.

 

[Pancakes]

It’s really frustrating we gave Ty Smith no NHL runway so we could not qualify POJ.

Both of them are whatever.

As for Arvidsson, I wouldn't mind him on a short term deal. He would fit in well with Sullivan's system, for whatever that's worth.