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

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Gotta protect the psyche of our soon-to-be 30-year-old starting goalie.

It's a pretty embarrassing look, honestly. Not that they shouldn't be used to it.

I guess what other option do they have? He sure isn't tradeable.

 

[The Old Master]

Mike Sullivan could pull out a gun and shoot Puustinen in the head at center ice and he still wouldn't be fired.

nah. he would shoot high and wide. then complain about not getting to his game.

 

[Duffy13]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857563229167431761

Weird how he's Yohe's scapegoat for the past couple weeks.

 

[Ulf5]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857563229167431761

Weird how he's Yohe's scapegoat for the past couple weeks.

Well, 1 of those writers are knowledgeable.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857563229167431761

Weird how he's Yohe's scapegoat for the past couple weeks.

It's only weird if you assume Yohe actually has an ounce of hockey knowledge.

 

[Andy99]

lol…

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857567255707451832

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Let me guess, Gurgletits is doing the gdt which is why I don't see one. Figures a BJ like him would do it for the CBJ game.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857563229167431761

Weird how he's Yohe's scapegoat for the past couple weeks.

Bob Grove definitely f***s.

Flake Pretzel was always money against the Jackets.

 

[cygnus47]

It also reinforces how poor the chances we create are. And it’s been like that for half a decade, it’s just that we used to have top of the league ability to finish our chances.

 

[Riptide]

We miss you. Hopefully all is good.

Things are good... just insanely busy. And while I'm happy with the travel and overtime... I do kind of miss the time where I only had a few hrs of work a day and basically got paid to bs about hockey all day long. I don't miss those paycheques... but I miss the free time.

Riptide's posting? What's next, Kirk out of retirement? He still never admitted to me that Pancakes > Waffles

Intermittently. We had a slow spell... only 70 or so hours and 2 out of town trips this week. But am on the road most of the next few weeks and expect the rest of the schedule to get filled up by then.

But I got to see the Pens live last season in PIT (vs FLA and MTL) so all the trips and OT is worth it.

On the flip side... because I'm so busy... I don't have the time to watch as many games (I think it took me a week to watch the MTL game the other day)... and see how badly these guys are playing. Ugh.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857966867328983253

Time to bring in more of those dogshit players for the 2nd and 3rd rounders that everyone loves so much.

 

[BusinessGoose]

I am sick of the salary cap rising

Is league revenue even up? Does anyone care about the NHL? How are we raising cap in an economy where operating costs are soaring?

This is gonna get another lockout soon. Owners keep f***ing themselves with bad contracts and raising cap isn't the solution to that bad idea.

 

[Ulf5]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857966867328983253

Time to bring in more of those dogshit players for the 2nd and 3rd rounders that everyone loves so much.

We're getting Marner, aren't we? Yes we are ha.

 

[McGroarty2]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857966867328983253

Time to bring in more of those dogshit players for the 2nd and 3rd rounders that everyone loves so much.

Can they not raise it and get rid of the jersey and helmet advertising as well as a few of the on ice ads? Very unattractive imo.

 

[Ulf5]

I am sick of the salary cap rising

Is league revenue even up? Does anyone care about the NHL? How are we raising cap in an economy where operating costs are soaring?

This is gonna get another lockout soon. Owners keep f***ing themselves with bad contracts and raising cap isn't the solution to that bad idea.

If it goes up $10 mil, we can dump Jarry for only the cost of a 2050 3rd!

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

We're getting Marner, aren't we? Yes we are ha.

Man I hope not. Not because Marner's bad, but you don't build on top of a Marner foundation. Marner's a guy you throw the kitchen sink at when you've got like a McKenna or a Dupont already and you're tryin' to get goin' imo.

 

[molon labe]

I'm not big on circling misery. I have friends that are - so I'm not unaware of what it looks or sounds like - but I have a genuine ask:

- What is left to talk about at this point? I would like to start being more active on here again but this team sucks ass. They've sucked ass for years now. They look the same every.single.season, except that this season they've somehow SHRUNK an offense that was nearly non-existent entering the year.

Sully is responsible for most. Dubas is in a respectable second place there. So what's worth discussing? There's no chance that anything ever changes so long as Sully is in the organization - he's got his hands in everything and is directly responsible for nearly all bad decisions in the past 5 years. They've given him all the toys he's ever wanted (a roster full of offensively inept PKers, horrible PMD with no 'D', and bad goalies he can pin the blame on). They've done this year after year after year. So cool...

I lurk occasionally, hoping that we actually fire sale / fire Sully or fire Dubas, or trade for an NHL player who can score goals. None of those things is probable. The upcoming draft is not really inspiring either. So maybe it's just time to ignore hockey and come back in the next era. I find it more painful to watch my favorite players on a shit team than to just not watch their retirement tour at all. I've watched one game this season. Maybe that'll be it.

 

[eXile3]

Can they not raise it and get rid of the jersey and helmet advertising as well as a few of the on ice ads? Very unattractive imo.

How would raising the salary cap get rid of jersey advertisements? It would only increase expenses?

It’s a poor league because it doesn’t have the lucrative TV deals other sports have.