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!"

[Darren McCord]

Hey, are you writing dubas' July 1st speech already?!

I mean it would just be dumb to. Buy his ass out if you dont want him around but dont give up a good pick.

Or bury him if Blomqvist does well during the year.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I mean then we just shouldn't move him. There is no desperate need to move Jarry.

Exactly. If all you can get is a shit return for Jarry, you keep him and hope he can have a great year like 2019-2020 or 2021-2022.

If he puts up a .915 save% next year, he'll bring back great value next off-season. If he sucks next year, then you look at dumping him next off-season.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Wouldn't it be kinda awesome if you got paid just to make up a bunch of fan fiction and never do any real work or be expected to produce any tangible results for years at a time?

If my fan fiction was ever published, I'd be banned from several states.

 

[SEALBound]

The exact game 7 you want...how do we get one?

 

[Gurglesons]

The exact game 7 you want...how do we get one?

Firing Mike Sullivan and Kyle Dubas.

 

[Pancakes]

Firing Mike Sullivan and Kyle Dubas.

Seven is instead the number of more years we're gonna be locked into Sully and Doobler

 

[DesertedPenguin]

Saros might be traded too, rumours they don’t want to re-sign him at the price he’ll want. Preds don’t need a goalie in return though.

Good catch. But obviously if Nashville makes a trade, that could impact how another team reacts. If a team gets Saros, their divisional opponents may get more aggressive if they also need goaltending.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Hey, are you writing dubas' July 1st speech already?!

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[Bishop7979]

Watching Paul Maurice throwing e-rod out there in the closing minutes of game 7 when up a goal knowing the Sullivan specially is the reason the penguins cut him loose.


Also, who all wants Zucker back? At 4 mil a year? For multiple years? Why? Jesus there's plenty of better options for that money. Zucker had a hard time sticking in the top six on the freaking coyotes last year and people want to not only bring him in, but over pay him, and bump doc down to the third line. With doc being younger, cheaper, faster, with similar production.

Don't get me wrong the one year we got healthy Zucker I loved the guy, but that production seems like an outlier.

 

[Turin]

Watching Paul Maurice throwing e-rod out there in the closing minutes of game 7 when up a goal knowing the Sullivan specially is the reason the penguins cut him loose.


Also, who all wants Zucker back? At 4 mil a year? For multiple years? Why? Jesus there's plenty of better options for that money. Zucker had a hard time sticking in the top six on the freaking coyotes last year and people want to not only bring him in, but over pay him, and bump doc down to the third line. With doc being younger, cheaper, faster, with similar production.

Don't get me wrong the one year we got healthy Zucker I loved the guy, but that production seems like an outlier.

I don't think there's absolutely anything out there that wasn't made up on this board that suggests Sullivan is the guy who insisted on dumping ERod. In fact, Sullivan was infamous here for wanting him back when people didn't care about him, saying "he's gonna score goals."

 

[Tom Hanks]

I don't think there's absolutely anything out there that wasn't made up on this board that suggests Sullivan is the guy who insisted on dumping ERod. In fact, Sullivan was infamous here for wanting him back when people didn't care about him, saying "he's gonna score goals."

From memory it was a cap issue that we couldn’t get him back.

 

[Gurglesons]

I don't think there's absolutely anything out there that wasn't made up on this board that suggests Sullivan is the guy who insisted on dumping ERod. In fact, Sullivan was infamous here for wanting him back when people didn't care about him, saying "he's gonna score goals."

local Penguins reporter Hunter Hodies is the one who said it was told to him by a source close to that team.

 

[Tom Hanks]

So do we just sign Corey Perry and #ReverseTheCurse

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

So do we just sign Corey Perry and #ReverseTheCurse

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Don't sign him, acquire him around the deadline.

 

[Turin]

local Penguins reporter Hunter Hodies is the one who said it was told to him by a source close to that team.

I dunno man, having a hard time believing that. Definitely not taking that as gospel. He’s the only guy who scored that game.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I dunno man, having a hard time believing that. Definitely not taking that as gospel. He’s the only guy who scored that game.

Yeah, usually players just get benched for that.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Watching Paul Maurice throwing e-rod out there in the closing minutes of game 7 when up a goal knowing the Sullivan specially is the reason the penguins cut him loose.

They cut Erod loose for 2 reasons:
1) His 2nd half after Malkin returned was very concerning for his long term performance in that same role.
2) He was demanding too much AAV and term at the time the Pens were open for business. By the time Erod became more flexible in August, the Pens had already committed to others.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

They cut Erod loose for 2 reasons:
1) His 2nd half after Malkin returned was very concerning for his long term performance in that same role.
2) He was demanding too much AAV and term at the time the Pens were open for business. By the time Erod became more flexible in August, the Pens had already committed to others.

Yep. ERod wanted a multi-year contract, and held out for a while in the hopes of getting it. He ended up signing for the Avalanche for just the one year. The contract he got from Florida this past offseason was the one he was hoping for a year earlier.

 

[HandshakeLine]

In retrospect we should have not committed to others.

I'm not saying Erod was super great or anything, but just that he's the kind of complimentary player this team says it wants and succeeds with and we acquired players like Smith and had two extra years of awful Jeff Carter.

f*** Jeff Carter, by the way.

 

[Epic Neal Time]

Around the 59 minute mark, some Jarry talk starts. Elliotte says "there's something going on out there" re: Jarry and that he's told he's available.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Joshua is not a bargain bin option. He might have been before the playoffs, but not now.

Plus, Toronto is involved so the price automatically goes up.

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Goalie trades are always wonky I feel like. Never know what you’re going to get in return.

Full NMC with him only wanting to go to a few locations and 1 year left. I can see why the return is so low

Korpisalo is awful. If Boston is so confident they can rebuild struggling goalies they could sign basically any UFA for less money and term than Korpisalo.

Rare Senators W unless they sign Ullmark to something stupid like 7x7.

One thing is I wouldn't be shocked if they have not had preliminary discussions on the future contract for Ullmark and its mostly set and will be signed this summer.

 

[Andy99]

There’s a good argument for this…boost the PP for sure…but he ain’t coming here lol

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[Malkinstheman]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1803901289501163726

Saw this quote from a couple of days ago. Could be reading into it too much but if they think Blomqvist could push for playing time early in the season, I cant imagine they have 8m in goaltending blocking him.

 

[Gurglesons]

Around the 59 minute mark, some Jarry talk starts. Elliotte says "there's something going on out there" re: Jarry and that he's told he's available.

Jarry has been available since he was signed basically. Dubas essentially told him to go figure out the deal he could get and then he came crawling back when he couldn't find anything. Same with Dubas.

At least we likely know if he's moved within the next 6-7 days.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Yeah Sully revived Erods career

BUT I do blame sully for how good Zucker-Erod-Kap was and not going back to it as a L3 when Sid/Geno got back from injury.