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Confirmed with Link: Penguins acquire Erik Karlsson for Granlund, 1st rounder in 2024, Rutta, Petry, DeSmith (more in first post)
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Empoleon8771
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Also the Penguins kept both POJ and Smith in this deal, who both can slide into the top-4 in case of injuries. If Letang or Karlsson gets hurt, Smith slides into the top-4 as a RD to replace them. If Graves or Pettersson get hurt, POJ slides into the top-4 as a LD to replace them.
It's why I wanted to keep Smith as a part of this deal. Having him as top-4 injury insurance for Letang and Karlsson makes a lot of sense to me.
It's why I wanted to keep Smith as a part of this deal. Having him as top-4 injury insurance for Letang and Karlsson makes a lot of sense to me.
ChaosAgent
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Outstanding. I mean, very weird but awesome.
Last I checked Friedman was still a Penguin. It's not a slam dunk that Ruh is starting.
Last I checked Friedman was still a Penguin. It's not a slam dunk that Ruh is starting.
Maybe this will be Coffey 2.0? A guy can dream, right? Gotta’ wonder what Hexy felt like when he heard the news?
While I am first and foremost a Leafs fan, the Penguins have always been my second favorite team since the Lemieux days and I watch as much as I possibly can. Love this deal. Thrilled to see Petry and Granlund on the way out and that we are going for it while we still have time with Crosby, Malkin and Letang still playing at high level. I like the moves we’ve made this off-season overall, but I think we still need another 3rd line quality player, 2 more D and not sold on Ned
Darren McCord
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I am all for a POJ - Smith Pairing.
POJ is pretty fast. Let Smith be aggressive and POJ can cover him. POJ had to be the puck mover on his pairings before with Rutta and Ruh
pistolpete11
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Did Dubas also secretly fire Sullivan?
DRAGO 18
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This trade is far too complicated for me to understand right now but 3 million under?
I thought i read somewhere we were 80k over?
Empoleon8771
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Also for Pitlick's player card:
It's not particularly pretty, but it's basically the same as Granlund but he actually produces at 5v5. Pitlick is a much more cost appropriate Granlund for the bottom-6.
It's not particularly pretty, but it's basically the same as Granlund but he actually produces at 5v5. Pitlick is a much more cost appropriate Granlund for the bottom-6.
K Fleur
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Pixies hasn’t posted yet because they booked the first flight to Montreal to console Petry
Zirakzigil
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Could have got Carter drunk enough to waive his NMC instead.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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It worked out nice the last time this team traded for a 100+ point defenseman, yeah.
EK65 could literally drop 40 points off his total from last season and this trade would still be pretty good. Nobody cares about the cap implications as the well-established understanding is that we are looking at a like two year window, here.
Big Friggin Dummy
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Yeah, that's what I figured. Granlund making $1.1 million ain't in the same realm as Granlund making $5 million x 2.
Zbynek
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This is the best part of the deal for the Pens
Dipsy Doodle
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You did it, you beautiful bastard
K Fleur
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Dubas did this trade and saved us 2 months of talking about DOC’s potential.
A GM that thinks about HF is cool with me.
A GM that thinks about HF is cool with me.
That's what I just said to my wife. Although she didn't understand at all what I was talking about.
Darren McCord
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Yeah, that's what I figured. Granlund making $1.1 million ain't in the same realm as Granlund making $5 million x 2.
isnt it free to bury a 1.1 million dollar contract anyways?
Big Friggin Dummy
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Same with all of our stars. Hell fit right in. They tend to win a cup every 6-7 seasons though, and it's due.
I forgot Legare was still here, he's either been hurt or doing jack dick since he turned pro looking like a bust at this point.
CheckingLineCenter
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W for every team involved. I really like having Pitlick thrown in.
Dupuis 2.0 with Jake out?
Dupuis 2.0 with Jake out?
Empoleon8771
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Yeah, that's what I figured. Granlund making $1.1 million ain't in the same realm as Granlund making $5 million x 2.
I've said this a bunch of times, but if Granlund was making $2 million a year, I would have wanted to keep him.
It's a wildly different animal to have a guy with those flaws making $1 million vs a guy with those flaws making $5 million.
Malkinstheman
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