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]

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.

This draft sucks but we shouldn’t excuse incompetence.

 

[Gurglesons]

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.

He doesn't, but what else is he supposed to say after he fumbled the bag last year so badly?

I guess he could blame Hextall like everyone else in Pittsburgh seems to do for him.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

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.

I have zero expectations. NHL drafts are borderline pointless when you pick in the lower half of the first round at best, your entire scouting and player development infrastructure is a running joke and you have a head coach that would rather take a bubble bath with his grandma than play youth.

 

[HandshakeLine]

If we actually took drafting and development seriously we wouldn’t be here. But we dont.

 

[Andy99]

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

We need someone to PK and be hard to play against…good thing we can find those players high in the draft — Mike Sullivan

 

[HandshakeLine]

hey does someone have a nephew in an MBA program that plays a lot of NHL2k20? We need some new scouts. Boston area only

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

"We should take best player available." -Dubas

"Shut up, we're taking a grinder." -Sullivan

"The Pittsburgh Penguins are proud to select *random grinder*."

 

[Gurglesons]

This draft sucks but we shouldn’t excuse incompetence.

If we were picking top 15, we could probably get a good player in this draft.

 

[Tom Hanks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806416913364595068

 

[HandshakeLine]

Also we need some posters with discerning palates to conduct a blind taste test for florsheim’s orthopedic grandpa shoes. Can your tongue tell the difference between NHL wife midnight blue and Patrick Kane blackout black?

If we were picking top 15, we could probably get a good player in this draft.

But we won’t explore that possiblity so please and thanks!

 

[Gurglesons]

Also we need some posters with discerning palates to conduct a blind taste test for florsheim’s orthopedic grandpa shoes. Can your tongue tell the difference between NHL wife midnight blue and Patrick Kane blackout black?


But we won’t explore that possiblity so please and thanks!

Oh, I just meant that's where we would be picking lol.

 

[SEALBound]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806416913364595068

At first I was like:

"Well I wouldn't want to live in SJ either..." but then...Chicago.

"Well, I wouldn't want to play on that shit team either..." but then...Chicago.

Sharks are getting Celebrini so it's not like there wouldn't be someone to play with to help your value.

 

[Sideline]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806416913364595068

You know your team is a joke when guys would rather freeze in Chicago winters than live in sunny California just to avoid playing for you.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

I'd rather keep 42 and 44, tbh.

Agreed.

Dubas is also known for going back in drafts and getting extra picks.

Maybe if it was 42 and some other pick and not 44. Or if it was 42 + 44 for a late 1st + a 4th if he had someone he was really really high on.

 

[Pancakes]

You know your team is a joke when guys would rather freeze in Chicago winters than live in sunny California just to avoid playing for you.

To a Russian Chicago's winters probably feel like summer.

 

[SEALBound]

You know your team is a joke when guys would rather freeze in Chicago winters than live in sunny California just to avoid playing for you.

Yeah but "Sunny California" is San Jose, California. Unless you're a rich tech guy in the Palo Alto area, that entire Bay Area is a disgusting cesspool.

If you're talking San Diego or Malibu, it might be different.

 

[Gurglesons]

Yeah but "Sunny California" is San Jose, California. Unless you're a rich tech guy in the Palo Alto area, that entire Bay Area is a disgusting cesspool.

If you're talking San Diego or Malibu, it might be different.

lol.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Yeah but "Sunny California" is San Jose, California. Unless you're a rich tech guy in the Palo Alto area, that entire Bay Area is a disgusting cesspool.

If you're talking San Diego or Malibu, it might be different.

I love San Diego, lived there for a year.

 

[Tom Hanks]

At first I was like:

"Well I wouldn't want to live in SJ either..." but then...Chicago.

"Well, I wouldn't want to play on that shit team either..." but then...Chicago.

Sharks are getting Celebrini so it's not like there wouldn't be someone to play with to help your value.

Here’s the real story

 

[Gurglesons]

I'm sure someone taking home 2 mil a year or whatever Mikheyev would be getting can find someway to enjoy living in "the cesspool" that is the Bay Area.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

The SF Bay area f***ing sucks. But if you're in San Jose, you aren't far from Santa Cruz, Carmel, Monterey, and Big Sur, which are all awesome.

 

[Gurglesons]

Here’s the real story

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The SF Bay area f***ing sucks. But if you're in San Jose, you aren't far from Santa Cruz, Carmel, Monterey, and Big Sur, which are all awesome.

Nah, some guy that lives in Pittsburgh says it's bad. It's over.

California is dead.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Post-COVID anti-city rhetoric is all time grift.

Except for Baltimore. But that’s only because it has always been a hellhole

 

[Gurglesons]

Post-COVID anti-city rhetoric is all time grift.

Except for Baltimore. But that’s only because it has always been a hellhole

Bottom three city in the country without a doubt pre/post pandemic.

 

[Tom Hanks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806432562564198519