I think we should pump the brakes on the whole, "well at least Kevin Hayes is an upgrade over Jeff Carter..." thing. Is he? Because down the stretch when both the Pens and Blues were fighting for their playoff lives last season, Carter was contributing while Hayes was being demoted and then benched in favor of prospects like Zach Dean and Zachary Bolduc.
I mean, Hayes will be given every opportunity to fail here...that is for certain. But fail he will. He has not been interested for quite some time now, hard to see that changing now that he is with a coaching duo that will placate him rather than ride him hard.
This whole thing was a stupid idea. We got two picks for Reilly Smith in the end, we never needed this pick THAT badly.
Now we are stuck with another shitty player on a shitty contract.