Salary Cap: Pens '23-'24 Salary Cap Thread: "But if you don't get the President of the Pittsburgh Penguins on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?"

[Headshot77]

I'd like to give Acciari a minute on the third line, just to see if it works. Acciari-Eller-Zohorna could be great.

 

[66-30-33]

I'd like to give Acciari a minute on the third line, just to see if it works. Acciari-Eller-Zohorna could be great.

I'm good with that.

 

[LOGiK]

@Gurglesons "Yeah Buffalo absolutely won that trade…."

Not even sure I mentioned anyone 'winning' that trade. Nope, nothing to do with who won a trade.
They had to get rid of him as he wasn't happy with the way the 'team' handled his injury so his time there was finished.

@Rakell67 "The curly haired guy that just won a Cup?"
Yep. That is him. I wasn't slamming him, I forgot his name. Still do actually =P

 

[Empoleon8771]

I'd like to give Acciari a minute on the third line, just to see if it works. Acciari-Eller-Zohorna could be great.

I'd rather move Hinostroza up to the 3rd line, but I would also move Acciari to RW.

Right now, what I want to run with is:

Zohorna-Eller-Hinostroza
Nieto-O'Connor-Acciari

Later in the year, I'm hoping Poulin can come up and they can make a trade for a better 3rd line RWer. The 4th line would become O'Connor-Poulin-Acciari and whoever they'd trade for would replace Hinostroza on the 3rd line.

 

[Empoleon8771]

If I could call the shots, I'd probably just be trying to make smaller deals like:

-Kubalik at $800k to Pittsburgh, POJ to Ottawa and a 4th to a 3rd team to retain money on Kubalik
-Ruhwedel and draft picks for Lyubushkin, with needing a similar 3-way trade to the Kubalik deal
-I'd probably be looking to move out Nieto's deal to open up a spot for Poulin

By the trade deadline, I'd be hoping for a lineup like:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rakell
Smith-Malkin-Rust
Zohorna-Eller-Kubalik
O'Connor-Poulin-Acciari
Carter

Graves-Letang
Pettersson-Karlsson
Shea-Lyubushkin
Ludvig

 

[ChaosAgent]

Malkin looks great, but stripping out the emotion the results from L2 and the Powerplay weren't very good last year. I think we would have gotten a similar goal diff with Trocheck. The difference of course is that Malkin is a living legend and 4-year term is great.

Kadri has been awful though, from what I understand.

 

[Gurglesons]

Malkin looks great, but stripping out the emotion the results from L2 and the Powerplay weren't very good last year. I think we would have gotten a similar goal diff with Trocheck. The difference of course is that Malkin is a living legend and 4-year term is great.

Kadri has been awful though, from what I understand.

 

[ChaosAgent]

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Malkin looks great, but stripping out the emotion the results from L2 and the Powerplay weren't very good last year. I think we would have gotten a similar goal diff with Trocheck. The difference of course is that Malkin is a living legend and 4-year term is great.

Kadri has been awful though, from what I understand.

Can't eyeroll hard enough at this.

Malkin had Rakell and Trocheck had Panarin, and Malkin still outscored him by 19 points. Offensively, they are on different planets. Defense included, they are still not close.

 

[ChaosAgent]

Can't eyeroll hard enough at this.

Malkin had Rakell and Trocheck had Panarin, and Malkin still outscored him by 19 points. Offensively, they are on different planets. Defense included, they are still not close.

Look at where Malkin was in GF% last year on the Penguins. L2 was alright but not great.

Compare it against Malkin's numbers in 2015-2018. Lower in GF% and Goals/60.

That said, it is awesome he is here and will hit 500 likely this year.

 

[K Fleur]

Did you guys know Trocheck is from Pittsburgh?

 

[Zirakzigil]

Did you guys know Trocheck is from Pittsburgh?

Cant believe that didnt come up when he was a UFA!

 

[ChaosAgent]

Evgeni Malkin is from Magnitogorsk, which is the Pittsburgh of the USSR.

 

[vodeni]

Malkin looks great, but stripping out the emotion the results from L2 and the Powerplay weren't very good last year. I think we would have gotten a similar goal diff with Trocheck. The difference of course is that Malkin is a living legend and 4-year term is great.

Kadri has been awful though, from what I understand.

I'll take this as in jest

 

[ChaosAgent]

I'll take this as in jest

Infinite Jest, bruh. Meant to be read and not understood. Also involving Tennis

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Look at where Malkin was in GF% last year on the Penguins. L2 was alright but not great.

Compare it against Malkin's numbers in 2015-2018. Lower in GF% and Goals/60.

That said, it is awesome he is here and will hit 500 likely this year.

Why the cherry-picked range?

Why would anyone expect a player to be every bit as good at 36 as he was from 28-32?

 

[Fordy]

smith is such a good linemate for geno and what he has always wanted to do. zucker was a valuable player but was always an ass backwards forced fit with malkin when he was obviously a natural fit for sid instead. they finally found a way to play together last year basically through force of will but it never made sense and always held malkin back. he was practically made in a lab to be his winger

 

[ChaosAgent]

Why the cherry-picked range?

Why would anyone expect a player to be every bit as good at 36 as he was from 28-32?

I think a healthy acknowledgement that the player is 80-90% of what he was would be nice. Especially when the player plays an incredibly high event game where his decisions lead to good or bad things typically.

Regardless, this is in the wrong thread.

I omitted 2018-2019 because Kessel obliterated Malkin's year by being terrible at hockey.

 

[Pancakes]

It's really funny watching the Oilers fire their coach and bring in McDavid's buddies.

McDavid has a very Lemieux vibe to him with how he/the organization tries to stack his buddies around him. Sid is I guess too nice/boring to ever make the Penguins do that. I think the most he's ever wielded his power in that way is making his linemate preferences known.

 

[Zirakzigil]

It's really funny watching the Oilers fire their coach and bring in McDavid's buddies.

McDavid has a very Lemieux vibe to him with how he/the organization tries to stack his buddies around him. Sid is I guess too nice/boring to ever make the Penguins do that. I think the most he's ever wielded his power in that way is making his linemate preferences known.

Yeah but Mario actually won stuff, McDavid just gets points and sulks.

 

[Pancakes]

Yeah but Mario actually won stuff, McDavid just gets points and sulks.

True. I'm not even saying that to denigrate Mario. He's my favorite player and always will be. But he definitely did exert his influence on the organization in a way that Sid mostly never has.

It's interesting to see a superstar doing that again. Not many goes doing that these days (in the NHL at least). Kind of a throwback thing to do.

 

[Zirakzigil]

True. I'm not even saying that to denigrate Mario. He's my favorite player and always will be. But he definitely did exert his influence on the organization in a way that Sid mostly never has.

It's interesting to see a superstar doing that again. Not many goes doing that these days (in the NHL at least). Kind of a throwback thing to do.

I dunno. Sid has flexed his muscles before. The Geno extension for example, or playing Iginla on left wing because he promised Dupuis that he was his boy. I think Sid gets his way a lot when it comes to line mates.

 

[Pancakes]

I dunno. Sid has flexed his muscles before. The Geno extension for example, or playing Iginla on left wing because he promised Dupuis that he was his boy. I think Sid gets his way a lot when it comes to line mates.

Yeah I do think the linemates thing is probably the biggest example of Sid exerting his influence on the org in what isn't always a benevolent manner.

Jagr was always the funniest with that actually. Just randomly latching onto weird players. Remember when Jags insisted on having like Kip Miller be his center? Just a weird dude.

 

[Andy99]

So the Flyers have three better forward lines than the Pens? Lol

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

So the Flyers have three better forward lines than the Pens? Lol

Nevermind Jordan Staal's actual goal and four assists. He's on the best line in imaginary hockey! Just think of all the fake awards he's gonna win!