GDT: Penguins Trade Deadline thread: What can we get for 3 packs of gum and a signed hockey puck?

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[Pancakes]

Ok, I now expect someone else not been named yet on a different team. Pens are going after Boone Jenner now.

They'll probably just add one more cheap bottom six forward so that they don't have to play Caggiula, and then call it a day.

Or maybe just call it a day in general and just play Caggiula until the playoffs and then call up McGinn when there is no cap lol

this f***ing team man

 

[Flying Dego]

Ok, I now expect someone else not been named yet on a different team. Pens are going after Boone Jenner now.

I said Boone. I love Boone.

Columbus would sooner break his knee caps then send him here

 

[Turin]

They'll probably just add one more cheap bottom six forward so that they don't have to play Caggiula, and then call it a day.

Or maybe just call it a day in general and just play Caggiula until the playoffs and then call up McGinn when there is no cap lol

this f***ing team man

Oh yea, POJ for a terrible league min forward comin up

 

[Pancakes]

I still can’t believe this is a thing. Does Sully even know this is happening? How on earth does this move make the team better now, let alone the next two years? JR made a lot of dumb moves, but this one is seriously one of the worst, considering all circumstances, I can remember. Just a terrible trade.

It doesn't seem like a move Sullivan would ask for that's for sure.

It's a move that suggest Hextall has no awareness of how Sullivan deploys his bottom six either. Just lol if they bring in Granlund who plays no defense and bury him in d-zone starts.

Maybe they'll play Granlund in the top six and move Zucker or Rust to line three. That still won't move the needle at all.

 

[ZorkEnchanter]

I do not like this Granlund deal. I'd have sooner kept the cap space for free agency.

Exactly... and the f***ing plug is here for multiple years.

Hextall is a legit moron. This was a horrible move in many ways... you add this to all his strikeouts from FA. Ooof...

 

[DeadPuckEra]

Keep seeing “Wilson” mentioned here. Tom Wilson? How would that ever be a thing?

 

[66-30-33]

They'll probably just add one more cheap bottom six forward so that they don't have to play Caggiula, and then call it a day.

Or maybe just call it a day in general and just play Caggiula until the playoffs and then call up McGinn when there is no cap lol

this f***ing team man

I can't see Granlund being the big move. Maybe they wanna hope the Granlund-Zucker connection is still around? but not the big move.

I said Boone. I love Boone.

Columbus would sooner break his knee caps then send him here

GCRak
Jenner-Malkin-Rust
Zucker-Granlund-Carter

 

[Lustaf]

so uh, i had to finish up basketball practice and then drive home... and while i was gone, Hextall went house-to-house and shit in all of our beds?

Yea, but he left a note so could be worse.

 

[Pancakes]

I can't see Granlund being the big move. Maybe they wanna hope the Granlund-Zucker connection is still around? but not the big move.

We have next to no cap to do anything else without salary out.

I dunno man. Seems like this was the big move, sorry to say. Maybe Hextall has something else up his sleeve but I doubt it.

 

[66-30-33]

Keep seeing “Wilson” mentioned here. Tom Wilson? How would that ever be a thing?

Tyler Kennedy tweeted it for shits and giggles.

 

[Flying Dego]

I'm just waiting for the "hearing Pittsburgh isn't done just yet" lol

F*** it. I bet Hextall is so exhausted from a day's worth of awful work. Gonna not be heard from til the draft

 

[dogthateats]

Granlund had 10th most pp assists in the league last season. Do you think there’s any chance he replaces Jake on pp1?

 

[66-30-33]

We have next to no cap to do anything else without salary out.

I dunno man. Seems like this was the big move, sorry to say. Maybe Hextall has something else up his sleeve but I doubt it.

I guess we will see.

 

[Flying Dego]

Granlund had 10th most pp assists in the league last season. Do you think there’s any chance he replaces Jake on pp1?

You are 99% sarcastic posts. Please tell me this isn't a 1%er

 

[Jobeycool]

I would have kept all my picks if I knew this move was gonna happen at last part of tonight.. once they passed on Chychrun also.

 

[Turin]

Granlund had 10th most pp assists in the league last season. Do you think there’s any chance he replaces Jake on pp1?

No, which makes the fit even more funny.

 

[Gurglesons]

They'll probably just add one more cheap bottom six forward so that they don't have to play Caggiula, and then call it a day.

Or maybe just call it a day in general and just play Caggiula until the playoffs and then call up McGinn when there is no cap lol

this f***ing team man

I doubt we do anything. We have no cap and nothing we can realistically move anymore.

 

[dogthateats]

You are 99% sarcastic posts. Please tell me this isn't a 1%er

I think you are thinking of someone else

 

[Tender Rip]

If you get Granlund to play with Malkin and Zucker, it can/could mean getting Geno set up better (because Zucker and Rust both have tunnel vision and Granlund does not). That would be a good thing. But I cannot like a solution where Carter remains 3C and you know Sully isn't really going to play Poehling more than him.

I think this has to be about getting a minute eater who can hold up the third better than Carter, while getting more out of Carter as a RW.

DOC Granlund Carter
Heinen Poehling Archie

It is better than what we have had, just not to an extent that it is likely to matter in the slightest, and for the playoffs we can call up McGinn again to play with the 4th perhaps. At least Sully will be very tempted to have a PK'er he trusts, and away from Carter he is sometimes a good player, however bland.

For next year it kills the kind of flex we had, or at least makes it even more imperative that we find a way to get Carter to LTIR. A real shame that we have not had any look at Puustinen this season with the big team. If there was any x-factor there to help getting a cheap scorer, it is now likely too late to find out.

 

[PensPlz]

Granlund had 10th most pp assists in the league last season. Do you think there’s any chance he replaces Jake on pp1?

.... Why do I have a sudden fear that Jake will be traded?

 

[Turin]

Think about how much cap space was at a premium this summer.

And the Pens take on a multi year cap dump at the deadline for a pick.

 

[Jobeycool]

If you get Granlund to play with Malkin and Zucker, it can/could mean getting Geno set up better (because Zucker and Rust both have tunnel vision and Granlund does not). That would be a good thing. But I cannot like a solution where Carter remains 3C and you know Sully isn't really going to play Poehling more than him.

I think this has to be about getting a minute eater who can hold up the third better than Carter, while getting more out of Carter as a RW.

DOC Granlund Carter
Heinen Poehling Archie

It is better than what we have had, just not to an extent that it is likely to matter in the slightest, and for the playoffs we can call up McGinn again to play with the 4th perhaps. At least Sully will be very tempted to have a PK'er he trusts, and away from Carter he is sometimes a good player, however bland.

For next year it kills the kind of flex we had, or at least makes it even more imperative that we find a way to get Carter to LTIR. A real shame that we have not had any look at Puustinen this season with the big team. If there was any x-factor there to help getting a cheap scorer, it is now likely too late to find out.

Also gives us far less cap room to anything over the break for next season.. might be some good free agents or even a better trade..

 

[DeadPuckEra]

It always gets goofy towards the end - for most great teams. Time passes them by, nobody really is an expert when the grey area hits and some real wild stuff happens as a result.

Like I’ve been saying, the team is done anyway. If you accept this - this trade doesn’t matter that much. JT Miller, JC, wouldn’t have mattered that much. I know everyone wants to like the player and trade, regardless of the teams direction - but there’s just nothing out there that can remedy this situation anymore. Really just have to accept it for what it is. Which is the end of the line. We can’t afford to pay 3 35+ players what we are paying them - and expect to fill out a roster around them of top notch players. Most teams do not do this - maybe 1/3 stays, the other two see their time in city come to an end.

 

[TKalltheTime]

.... Why do I have a sudden fear that Jake will be traded?

That’s just about the most stupid move we could make… so expect it.

 

[Pancakes]

I doubt we do anything. We have no cap and nothing we can realistically move anymore.

There are things we could move, but I don't think Hextall is bold enough to do so. So you're probably right.