It's a gamble for sure but that's why you try to get him at $4mil or so instead of a price tag that makes him an anchor if the play declines. He could be put on the 3rd line eventually. Or heaven forbid, we have a 2nd line capable guy on the 3rd line.
If Granlund outplays Sid or Jake by 1% on the powerplay, that is worth very little.
Net front PP guy injuries are pretty uncommon. The PKers are tentative, afraid to go down 2 men. They are focused on positioning and the puck. Guentzel has done it for years. Has he sustained an injury once over there?Yeah, I mean, he was playing with some elite production guys in Nashville. He ain't gonna be playing with guys like that on the Penguins, at ES or on the PP.He's not usurping anybody in the PP hierarchy of Sid, Geno, Jake, Rust (or Rakell, or whoever this team gets to replace Zucker, or even Carter whose only asset left is his shot) or Letang.
Uhhh, you should absolutely be scared to put Sid in the firing line of shots from Kris "high and wide" Letang, all the while getting beat to shit from crosschecks around the crease.
This team's a lengthy Sid injury away from a top-5 pick imo.
That's fair but I think the type of injuries that Zucker sustained are a risk for any player that plays the style of game he plays...and we need that style. Unless Bryan Rust is suddenly going to find a nose for the net, we need the guy with some wheels that will go in and forecheck. If you could close Rakell, that would be best. If not, figure out the next best similar forward we can afford.
Kreider's 6'3, 230lbs.
Jake's built like a high school sophomore, and regularly gets ragdolled, especially in the post season when the officials "don't want to influence games" so they refuse to make clear calls, which, of course, influences games. 
It's definitely a move we all see coming from miles away if it happens. Even before Dubas was put in charge.
They just gotta find somebody who can reliably feed Geno pucks in his wheelhouse on the PP. Dude's lost a step but his shot's still elite as ever, and if they can find somebody to do that and the two guys click, Geno's probably a 40+ goal guy until he retires.
Well the fact that Jake didn't get hurt there for years as a shrimp player is proof that it's not as dangerous as people here are claiming.The power play is just stagnant. Nobody's moving so PKers have the easiest time in the world to set up in lanes and even get aggressive in pressuring the puck carrier into a mistake or forced pass/shot that ultimately leads to a zone exit, and like BlindWilly said, this team's zone entries are El Stinko Grande so that's an easy 45 seconds to a minute killed by one mistake.
There's no movement, there's no flow, it's easily predictable. I think the PP needs somebody to take the puck decisions out of the hands of guys like Letang and Sid. Gonchar did it, Kessel did it, and I think that's the best the power play's ever been during the era imo. Don't know who that new acquisition would be or how to acquire them, but between entries, movement and the guys running QB for the PP, it's no real mystery as to why it comes up lame so often.
Kreider's 6'3, 230lbs.
I'm just sayin', you put Sid in a slot/net-front role on the PP and I'm pretty confident with his and this team's injury woes, he's going on the shelf sooner than later, and probably for a long time. Puck deflected up high into his face, a shot off the ankle, a crosscheck to the kidneys. Whatever the case may be.
Sometimes Sid sucks for stretches at things, just like everyone else. He had like 3 PPGs at the halfway mark.
It's a dumb idea imo. There's a difference between a net-front guy and Sid working the goal line and drawing PKers away from the slot.
We need a LW. He fits roughly what we want at that price point.
Jake was completely ineffective down the stretch and in the playoffs the only year he tried to be a real net front for a whole season on the PP and at ES (2020-21). It takes a toll. It hasn't been a problem since then because we brought in Rakell who handled it last year when Sullivan deigned to play a net front player on the PP, and we used Zucker and Carter there some too. Another reason you can't run Rust on L1, he's allergic to the blue paint at ES or on the PP.
If you are talking about Hellebuyck I think a handshake deal would be made before a trade or any other player.
