Salary Cap: Pens 2024 Summer Thread: "Thus, knocking us out of these superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow a non-playoff bound gap!"
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Big Friggin Dummy
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Laine's one of the best examples of "what could've been" for a hockey player in my time watching the game, imo. Dude has the size and skill to be an absolute juggernaut, but just never had the drive to reach his ceiling and has dealt with injury woes to boot.
I guess if Columbus takes Rakell at full cap hit *and* retains on Laine, it's worth a "who give a shit anymore, what's the worst that could happen" kinda shot. But other than that, nah.
I guess if Columbus takes Rakell at full cap hit *and* retains on Laine, it's worth a "who give a shit anymore, what's the worst that could happen" kinda shot. But other than that, nah.
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His play tanked because he was skipping sleep to play games. Now he plays on hidden accounts. I have no doubt that he's back at his dream of being an ESports competitor.
Gurglesons
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I'm really confused by this take and I see it a bunch on Laine.
Previous to last year when he was admittedly dealing with some extreme personal issues he had 52 points in 55 games with CBJ and 56 in 56.
Is a 77 - 82 pt winger not someone that we'd find attractive?
Empoleon8771
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Even if Laine played up to his potential, which I doubt, I still don't really like paying him the ~$9 million AAV he costs.
I'd honestly rather re-sign Guentzel, you know he fits with Crosby and you wouldn't have to spend any assets on him. And I've been vocal about not wanting to re-sign Guentzel.
I'd honestly rather re-sign Guentzel, you know he fits with Crosby and you wouldn't have to spend any assets on him. And I've been vocal about not wanting to re-sign Guentzel.
Gurglesons
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The benefit of Laine is he's making 9 million, but you could probably dump Smith on the Jackets and he's only making that for another year after this one so you could probably easily retain and get some very solid futures back for him next year if he pops off.
66-30-33
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We should be one of the last teams players wanna come to, we are at the end of our rope before a major rebuild happens in a few years.
66-30-33
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At this point we should be getting players that will maximize Crosbys stats for 82 games, that's all we should be doing now. We had our playoff runs, they are over time to get Crosby his points now like Caps with Ovy's goals.
Big Friggin Dummy
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Because he's not a 77-82pt winger in reality. He hasn't played a full season of hockey in half a decade. On pace production doesn't carry a lotta weight when a guy's playing 45-60 games a year for years on end. /shrug
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Empoleon8771
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Laine has only played in 175 of 302 games in the last 4 years.
Even if you ignore last year, he missed 26 and 27 games in the 2 previous years.
Big Friggin Dummy
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Gurglesons
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From what I remember it was a broken collarbone and sprained ankle that kept him out? I'm not sure I'd consider those consistent injuries.
Is this true? I've never heard this or seen him have surgery related to it?
I dunno, could be out to lunch here on Laine, but I never thought of "injuries" being his issue. His issue has been commitment to playing a full game and a failure in adapting his game to what is required in today's NHL.
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Dubois to Kotkaniemi to Nichushkin and now to Skinner. What a summer. What. A. Summer.
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If the Pens landed Skinner, his career of never making the playoffs would continue.
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AuroraBorealis
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Tatar UFA again. Good option for cheap, bottom-six scoring depth. He'll probably defend as well as anybody in that bottom-six too, as a bonus.
If he's cool with taking 1.5M or less (which after a down year he probably will be) I don't think it's likely we'd use that money better elsewhere.
If he's cool with taking 1.5M or less (which after a down year he probably will be) I don't think it's likely we'd use that money better elsewhere.
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Deport Ogie
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I'm honestly shocked to hear Jeff Skinner is *only* 32.
Ragamuffin Gunner
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It's not the only reason we have no depth but it's a major factor.
Obviously losing McC was a huge blow. He was making 2.9M then and still only makes 5M. Had we kept him we don't trade for Gran or Smith saving two picks.
We also lost Tanev who was overpaid at the time but is actually a really good bottom 6 player, which we haven't been able to replace since.
So that's two players we lost in the draft that equal almost exactly what Smith and Carter made this past season. Now let's look at who we kept.
KK, was garbage and eventually waived.
Cater, was old and got even older. He was given an extension with a NMC that was an anchor on the team for years.
So we ended up losing 3 players and holding onto another who was an anchor. The decision to keep KK and Carter over Tanev and McC led to having to scramble to fill the holes and greatly set the franchise back.
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What's even more odd to me at times are moves that were made post 17 Cup to the 2020 COVID seasons. Like Skinner was traded to Buffalo in Aug of 2018. That's wild to me. If I had to guess, I would have said like 2015. Something about those years and COVID that just completely warp my NHL timelines.
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