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!"

[HandshakeLine]

Unless you're Big Jeff, of course.

You can't NOT sign Big Jeff to a lucrative, ironclad contract at 35+ years of age. What if the Swiss get him, huh? WHAT THEN, SEAL?!?

It is still amazing how particularly poisonous that Carter contract was. All of you idiots who said it was “good” deserve to feel shame for eternity. You f***ing dipshits.

Don’t pretend you didn’t like it you f***ing hogs.

 

[The Old Master]

42 and 44 can get the Penguins up to about 27, so that's the easiest way for the Penguins to get a 1st if they so desperately want one.

pick27 isn't any better than 42 or 44

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

It is still amazing how particularly poisonous that Carter contract was. All of you idiots who said it was “good” deserve to feel shame for eternity. You f***ing dipshits.

Don’t pretend you didn’t like it you f***ing hogs.

"He'll be just like the new Cullen! Dad 2.0 lol!"

 

[HandshakeLine]

I’m preemptive lol for someone reporting that post for disrespecting that horrible ulcer ridden anus that is Jeff Carter.

Enjoy your riding mower in seven springs you shit!

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Suter looking to break the record and make it three teams that had to buy him out.

Any team that signs Suter beyond one year should be ridiculed mercilessly.

 

[SEALBound]

It's a weaker draft. If you're picking in the later part of the first and you have a need and everyone you had on your list is gone...I could see a GM moving their first for a couple of the guy we got. Maybe not 1:1 but the 1st could be part of the deal.

Say you're Toronto, maybe you ask for Jarry+46 for 23+Liljegren or something. Or maybe you're Calgary with 28 and are willing to do something around Jarry+? I'd be willing to bet there's more willingness to wheel and deal with teams that have 2 1sts, especially with one being late. Could even try the 2 2nds for a late 1st if a guy you like is on the board.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Any team that signs Suter beyond one year should be ridiculed mercilessly.

We signed Carter for 2, with the worst possible terms under the CBA. We have no room to say shit.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

pick27 isn't any better than 42 or 44

Why have two Teddy Bluegers when you can have one Colby Armstrong!

But really though why is this team hot and bothered to get into the lower first round in a whatever draft? Maybe they have their eyes on a player or two they hope will fall? Or maybe just trying to create some buzz around a dead-ass team.

 

[HandshakeLine]

pick27 isn't any better than 42 or 44

I’ll take “Things we say but don’t really mean” for $400, Alex

 

[Gurglesons]

It is still amazing how particularly poisonous that Carter contract was. All of you idiots who said it was “good” deserve to feel shame for eternity. You f***ing dipshits.

Don’t pretend you didn’t like it you f***ing hogs.

Same people that are defending Dubas now.

Same people that said the Tkachuk deal was horrible.

Same old group think..

 

[HandshakeLine]

Why have two Teddy Bluegers when you can have one Colby Armstrong!

But really though why is this team hot and bothered to get into the lower first round in a whatever draft? Maybe they have their eyes on a player or two they hope will fall? Or maybe just trying to create some buzz around a dead-ass team.

I trust nothing about this team, but some people love disappointment like their ex loved strange.

 

[Gurglesons]

Why have two Teddy Bluegers when you can have one Colby Armstrong!

But really though why is this team hot and bothered to get into the lower first round in a whatever draft? Maybe they have their eyes on a player or two they hope will fall? Or maybe just trying to create some buzz around a dead-ass team.

I think it's more that reporters know that when you don't have a 1st if you say "they want a 1st" it'll get engagement.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

42 and 44 can get the Penguins up to about 27, so that's the easiest way for the Penguins to get a 1st if they so desperately want one.

I'd rather keep 42 and 44, tbh.

 

[SEALBound]

Do we want a first round pick and younger prospects more? That’s what they have to decide….think they can make the playoffs without Petts but they’ll need to sign a FA LD like walker

Speaking of insight, I know everyone here has been waiting for the latest TIOPS update lol…

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Jarry Trade regarded as 50/50 in league circles? [hide] Pittsburgh and Tristan Jarry continue to be described as this: The Penguins brass still believes in Jarry but the view of Jarry is much different league-wide than it is from some in Pittsburgh. Teams believe he's a guy that can get you to...

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Jarry’s reps at Newport Sports that know what’s going on around the league are said to have gone into mode where they feel a trade has accelerated to 50/50. At least two possible suitors are kicking the idea around.
- Reilly Smith was nearly dealt to LA at the deadline and those talks could be revisited. Not sure what the return would be.
- Don't expect the Penguins to sign many (if at all) over 30 UFAs

In other words, Jarry won’t be traded, Smith won’t go to LA and we’ll be signing a lot of old UFAs lol

50/50 is a non-sense thing to say, lol. Just say "there are two teams kicking it around, so maybe?

Smith for Kaliyev should be something we look at. I would have said Grunstrom too but he gone.

Why have two Teddy Bluegers when you can have one Colby Armstrong!

But really though why is this team hot and bothered to get into the lower first round in a whatever draft? Maybe they have their eyes on a player or two they hope will fall? Or maybe just trying to create some buzz around a dead-ass team.

If Terik Parascak i available come 27 or so, I would be willing to trade the 2 2nds for the 1st and take him.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I’ll take “Things we say but don’t really mean” for $400, Alex

27... 42... 44... doesn't matter much when your drafting and developing is somewhere between "puzzling" and "so bad it's kinda funny, actually."

 

[HandshakeLine]

I'd rather keep 42 and 44, tbh.

I’d rather see the playoffs than miss continuously by a point but I don’t have two paychecks from the Pens for nothing.

27... 42... 44... doesn't matter much when your drafting and developing is somewhere between "puzzling" and "so bad it's kinda funny, actually."

I think we can all agree that trading a 40 goal scorer for a potential 10g player was a master stroke.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I think it's more that reporters know that when you don't have a 1st if you say "they want a 1st" it'll get engagement.

This is probably the most true, yes.

Also like most GMs Dubas just says things and probably totally forgets about them like ten minutes later.

 

[Maninthebox87]

I don’t see how Dubas gets back into the 1st unless he’s packaging a second rounder with Jarry or something. I feel like besides the generational talent being available in the first round they’ve mostly sucked at drafting there… they seem to do better in the second and third rounds.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

We signed Carter for 2, with the worst possible terms under the CBA. We have no room to say shit.

I ridicule this team all the time.

 

[HandshakeLine]

This is probably the most true, yes.

Also like most GMs Dubas just says things and probably totally forgets about them like ten minutes later.

No. He. Has. A. Plan.

I ridicule this team all the time.

- Craig Patrick

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

- Craig Patrick

Yes, often times after drinking.

 

[SEALBound]

27... 42... 44... doesn't matter much when your drafting and developing is somewhere between "puzzling" and "so bad it's kinda funny, actually."

From what the scouts say, there's not a ton of difference between the three player taken at those slots.

People need to curb expectations for this draft a bit.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I hope we really draft a few grinders in round two because you can’t have two Sidney Crosbies on the same line

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

No. He. Has. A. Plan.


- Craig Patrick

 

[Epic Neal Time]

The "What I'm hearing...." articles from Rossi/Yohe have been just regurgitating the same info since the trade deadline.

"They want to move Smith"
"They might change the goaltending, or they might not"
"They are interested in extending Pettersson."

Literally the only new thing is the Beauvillier tidbit