Salary Cap: Pens '24-'25 Salary Thread: The Crosbicles Volume XIX

[Andy99]

lol…plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose…at least it’s high event hockey!

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848018025250799665

 

[Pens x]

So wait, Bunting is extremely overrated, and that small sample size last spring was a fluke?

 

[molon labe]

Bunting is a guy that Colorado, Edmonton, New York, and Florida would love to have.

He's a guy that would have been great when we had good teams (16/17) as that role player who pops up every 4-5 games.

His problem in 2024 is that he's supposed to be like, one of our best forwards. That's more indicative of our team than anything else. He makes the same money Hagelin did while here...and Hagelin was only ever a role player was he not? (Consider cap %)

So, if we're going to suck - perhaps we use him as bait alongside Jarry to dispose of them? Maybe try and get a LD in return? I'm not ready to give up on him...it's just that this team is still going nowhere without the top-6 talent for Sid and someone else on the left side. So...if we're staying put, why the hell would we keep the likes of Bunting? He can be dealt, so deal him. Same thing with Pettersson...though moreso in Petts case. I'm gonna puke when they re-sign him.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Sounds like that Jake trade was a bit of a missed opportunity.

Who could have foreseen it?

 

[SomeDude]

Bunting is a guy that Colorado, Edmonton, New York, and Florida would love to have.

For 1/2 of his cap hit. That's why he was a cap dump in the Jake trade and why we'd have to retain to get positive value on him. Its a crappy contract for a depth forward.

Dubas is just stupid enough and loves the player enough to let the Canes off the hook on him.

 

[Pens x]

The team has so few valuable assets. You simply cant ditch a player like Jake for a cap dump and a bunch of nobodies.

 

[SomeDude]

To add to the Bunting issue, he's most effective when he's playing like a dirty rat.

We all know Sully would not have that on his team. Dubas should have known that.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

To add to the Bunting issue, he's most effective when he's playing like a dirty rat.

We all know Sully would not have that on his team. Dubas should have known that.

This was literally what I said I was worried about the second the trade was made. I was fine with Bunting and even liked the player, but I also wondered whether he'd even be allowed to play his game under Sullivan.

Imagine that. Sullivan turning a guy who plays with bite into yet another vanilla forward. Who could have predicted that?

 

[SomeDude]

This was literally what I said I was worried about the second the trade was made. I was fine with Bunting and even liked the player, but I also wondered whether he'd even be allowed to play his game under Sullivan.

Imagine that. Sullivan turning a guy who plays with bite into yet another vanilla forward. Who could have predicted that?

'Tis better to lose with a clean roster than to win with a greasy one.

- Book of Sully chapter 1, verse 69.

 

[McGroarty2]

'Tis better to lose with a clean roster than to win with a greasy one.

- Book of Sully chapter 1, verse 69.

Does anyone remember seeing Sullivan throw a hit when he played?

 

[Factorial]

Does anyone remember seeing Sullivan throw a hit when he played?

He fought Pens' nemesis Rich Pilon.