I will never get the hate for Bunting in the Guentzel trade, like ok Dubas has ties to him, but we're really mad at a career 50pt winger that can produce more, that's under 30 with a fantastic cap hit that is insanely Sullivan proof?
So many were mad at Dubas because Hyman was great at Rob Brown'ing it with McDavid, yet the player he got to replace Hyman - Bunting, was a far more productive Leaf than Hyman was, albeit it's Hyman's 6 seasons there vs Bunting's 2 (Bunting was a 0.70 ppg player there vs Hyman's 0.52 ppg).
I am pretty curious to see how Bunting does with Geno all season, I think he could crack 70pts if he stays healthy and remains with Geno all season. I mean I get it, I miss Jake on the Pens too, it was great while it lasted but for him to get his pay day, it was never going to work in the Penguins cap structure and especially not with the Graves contract lol. But even then, to have Jake get similar to what he got in Tampa, the Pens would need to go to 8yrs and a cap hit around 10-11m which I don't think FSG wanted Dubas to do at all.
But yeah, the part that pisses me off is if Sullivan had just played POJ and didn't f*** around with his development, we'd never need Graves, the whole signing of Graves has Sullivan's finger prints all over it for the types he likes. I guarantee that was Sullivan telling Dubas - we need a player like Graves.