I honestly don't get that feel? He's proved nothing in the postseason, unlike a Murray who got payed. He's coming off a piss poor year, He isn't capable of playing a starter workload. I could see 3.5 x 1 or something like that.
This is Zucker’s last contract most likely…he’s going to get a 5 year deal…Pens shouldn’t sign it lol
I'm not so sure, I can see him signing a 3 year taking him to 35. Hes already made 40 million in his career.
Okay so i just spent like 45 mins crunching numbers from the game logs, and the findings are pretty damning to say the least.
Dubas I hope your analytics guys are paying attention.
id be comfortable with a 3x3.5 and I dont see why some think he's going to go 5. He absolutely could go 5 but he may also want to retire at 35.....a lot of hockey players do. Zucker has made money
Garland is faster, 4 years younger, has a 15% stronger ES scoring rate over his career, and is more useful defensively. You will even get a pick for taking him.
Zucker didn't suck ever.
3 years would take him to 34 years a few months….he turns 32 in January…he probably doesn’t take anything less than 4 years and someone will likely offer him 5 to keep the AAV down
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Bunting, Barbashev or Engvall at $5, even $5.5M is better value, even if you’re offering them 6-7 year term…the age difference is 4 years…all are good forecheckers and go to the net
I don't get the Jan Rutta thing. I thought he was fine and his cap hit isn't obnoxious. And considering a blueline full of big guys that aren't terrible skaters just dominated in the playoffs I'm hesitant to dump Petry. Dumo is the guy that needs to go away.NHL’s 10 biggest offseason questions: Pettersson's future, Leafs changes and more
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8. Can the Penguins take one last crack at a Cup with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang?
It would have been one thing for Pittsburgh to miss the playoffs had Crosby and Malkin gotten hurt or taken a step back. It’s much worse that they missed the playoffs while wasting a 93-point season from Crosby and an 83-point campaign from Malkin. The supporting cast around Crosby, Malkin and Letang needs to be dramatically overhauled by the start of next season for any shot at a final year of contention.
Kyle Dubas has approximately $20.2 million in cap space to play with, which is a legitimate weapon. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done, however.
Pittsburgh must either re-sign or replace pending UFA Tristan Jarry, their talented but oft-injured goalie. A complete overhaul of the third line, both at center and on the wings, is necessary. The Penguins’ top-four is also too old, too slow and in need of an upgrade. One would guess that this year’s No. 14 overall draft pick should be on the table as a trade chip.
Dubas needs to either buy out or dump Mikael Granlund’s contract to create more flexibility, and an overpriced blue-line contract like that of Jeff Petry or Jan Rutta should be shopped as well.
Pittsburgh is light on trade chips, besides their first-round selection, and the free-agent market is weak, so this turnaround won’t be an easy task. It’s worth a swing though, because who knows how many more highly productive years they will get from Crosby, Malkin and Letang.
This, as I've been saying all summer, of all the problems this team had all year, Jeff Petry wasnt even in the top 900000 of them, he's fine and far from a problem, his contract might suck but everything else is fine. Hell he's about the only defenseman that regularly shoots the damn puck and actually tends to hit the goal with the shot.
When he's healthy, which has been exceptionally infrequent during his time as a Pen outside of his contract year. No thanks.
If Bertuzzi was after the same deal as Zucker I would agree all day every day. However, I expect Bertuzzi will get offered more for longer than whatever Zucker eventually gets.
