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The InJarry name still cracks me up. I salute whoever came up with that.
I don't agree about POJ. I see him stabilizing as a middle pair guy later on. Excellent skating, breakout pass, very good physicality for his size. Had a good goal count. Did a good job on PP2.I'd like to see what Smith has with a bigger role and more confidence from the coaching staff. I think we know what we have in POJ, and it's a bottom pairing guy who has steep ups and downs. Not really interested in keeping him around at all costs. If there's a deal there to get a similar caliber younger guy at forward, I'd easily pull the trigger.
What’s one more wasted season under the reign of terror that is Mike Sullivan? We’ve pissed away 5 straight seasons - what’s one more?
I don't know, man. Agree to disagree I guess. We all saw the potential ceiling, but we also saw some absolutely putrid stretches from the dude. I guess I just don't really give a f*** either way about the player.I don't agree about POJ. I see him stabilizing as a middle pair guy later on. Excellent skating, breakout pass, very good physicality for his size. Had a good goal count. Did a good job on PP2.
He was really consistent in the 1st half +.
It's too soon to judge. People were ready to jettison him during camp and he had a good year. He's 23. We don't know anything yet for sure.
He has a good chance at being one of our best value contracts next year. And I don't want us to get slower.
I don't know, man. Agree to disagree I guess. We all saw the potential ceiling, but we also saw some absolutely putrid stretches from the dude. I guess I just don't really give a f*** either way about the player.
Granlund didn’t cost us any games, and Bonino and Kulikov played like 5 games. These guys were nobodies, added nothing, but did they cost us any games?
I think we would have made the playoffs if our brain dead GM acquired a good player.
how are you going to replace Granlund's cap space?we should let them all walk…replace $5.5M Zucker and $5M Granlund with younger players in Bunting and Compher
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you still have to fill out a roster.They don't get cap relief, but they get the relief of Jeff Carter not playing hockey for them
you still have to fill out a roster.
Ive traded him w a second round pick and signed Compher for$5M perhow are you going to replace Granlund's cap space?
Ive traded him w a second round pick and signed Compher for$5M per
POJ was bad all on his own though. Terrible decisions with the puck, terrible tracking of assignments. /shrugView attachment 689160
Just give him Rutta or Petry and he'll be good. They gave him Ruhwedel during Chad's worst year as a Penguin.
As a result they got scored on too much for their sheltered role.
I thought Granlund was far, far better defensively than was advertised.Granlund was neutral bad for the Penguins, he was invisible and didn't do anything positive but he didn't do anything to particularly hurt them either. That's obviously bad value for his cap hit, but he as a player didn't really hurt the team. He just did nothing for the most part.
They need to move on from him because he makes way too much money for what he provides more than he's this terrible player. He's a kind of guy who should be getting a Heinen type of UFA contract at this point, not a $5 million AAV deal.
how are you going to replace Granlund's cap space?
What part of it is bad?That is what the cool kids would call a very bad idea
What part of it is bad?
We can buy our Granlund and it’ll cost 800k
He deserves his share of the blame when with Chad for sure, but his decision making, tracking and confidence was drastically better with different partners. Chemistry is a massive slice of the pie when it comes to D-men.POJ was bad all on his own though. Terrible decisions with the puck, terrible tracking of assignments. /shrug
Yes
I hate buying out Granlund less than I hate paying a 2nd to get out of his deal, but I still think buying out Granlund is a horrendously bad idea.
I don't see any reason you shouldn't be able to trade him.
Why do you hate buying him out? We won’t care about a 1.8 mil cap hit over two of the four buyout years and it’s better to have the space for the two years.
If we trade him, we’ll have to take a contract back guaranteed and doubtful one we like….assuming we want to get rid of his entire cap hit…no GM except our former lame one thinks he worth $5M per year at this point…if we retained, we might be able to trade him without it costing anythingYes
I hate buying out Granlund less than I hate paying a 2nd to get out of his deal, but I still think buying out Granlund is a horrendously bad idea.
I don't see any reason you shouldn't be able to trade him.
Because there is no reason you should have to buy out a guy you traded a 2nd for 6 weeks ago.