Salary Cap: Pens Salary Cap Thread: If we score 6 we win, its science!

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I hate this "meme".

Sorry.

 

[Gurglesons]

Time for the classic Buzz Flibbit to come outta nowhere.

More like time for Danton Heinen to get force fed top six minutes.

 

[Josey Wales]

Lol…even worse than I thought…

Well no wonder Jeff Zucker is out week to week he was fired by CNN too

 

[Pancakes]

More like time for Danton Heinen to get force fed top six minutes.

They could try Kapanen on l2 RW and Rust on l2 LW. Or Kapanen l2 LW.

I don't think Rust or Kapanen are very comfortable on LW though so it's most likely Heinen there.

 

[Gurglesons]

They could try Kapanen on l2 RW and Rust on l2 LW. Or Kapanen l2 LW.

I don't think Rust or Kapanen are very comfortable on LW though so it's most likely Heinen there.

Doubt we see that.

 

[Pancakes]

Doubt we see that.

Probably not. It's a shame that Guentzel-Crosby-Rust isn't working this year because Rakell can play LW and it would be trivial to slide him over to Malkin's LW and put Kapanen on that line. That'd probably be better than whatever Heinen could give us, IF GCR would work (which we know it hasn't).

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I don't have a huge issue with the Penguins not calling up Smith, but I feel like this is a prime opportunity to call him up with Petry presumably missing for a while. If Petry has a broken wrist, that's probably a 6-12 week recovery time, so that's going to be a while. Giving Smith a look during that window seems like an obvious decision, but I understand Sullivan won't want to play Smith on his off-side over Ruhwedel.

Smith is a Penguin, now. Despite having 100+ NHL games to his name (many of them fairly exceptional for his age) he will require "seasoning" in the AHL until he's 30 and therefore of appropriate age to get a shot at the geriatric club.

Also super shocking re: Zucker.

 

[Gurglesons]

Probably not. It's a shame that Guentzel-Crosby-Rust isn't working this year because Rakell can play LW and it would be trivial to slide him over to Malkin's LW and put Kapanen on that line. That'd probably be better than whatever Heinen could give us, IF GCR would work (which we know it hasn't).

Gross. take it back before Sullivan gets this idea.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I'm gonna try to be as optimistic as possible for Heinen on L2. He and Malkin have shown some decent play before. Um... granted... all the way up to actually putting the puck in the net. But hell L2 must be kinda used to that by now.

 

[Gurglesons]

I'm gonna try to be as optimistic as possible for Heinen on L2. He and Malkin have shown some decent play before. Um... granted... all the way up to actually putting the puck in the net. But hell L2 must be kinda used to that by now.

We haven’t see Heinen with Rust before. I could see it potentially working out, but not really holding my breath.

 

[pistolpete11]

They could try Kapanen on l2 RW and Rust on l2 LW. Or Kapanen l2 LW.

I don't think Rust or Kapanen are very comfortable on LW though so it's most likely Heinen there.

Incoming:

Geuntzel - Crosby - Rust
Rakell - Malkin - Kapanen


Sullivan has his chance to reunite GCRu! He's not going to pass it up!

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

We haven’t see Heinen with Rust before. I could see it potentially working out, but not really holding my breath.

Yeah I mean... I think it's going to suck ass but like I said I'm trying to be optimistic. This is as good as that gets... me being optimistic, I mean.

Incoming:

Geuntzel - Crosby - Rust
Rakell - Malkin - Kapanen


Sullivan has his chance to reunite GCRu! He's not going to pass it up!

This seems somewhat likely TBH. Though the team seems reluctant to put Raks on LW at times.

 

[mephisto1812]

Incoming:

Geuntzel - Crosby - Rust
Rakell - Malkin - Kapanen


Sullivan has his chance to reunite GCRu! He's not going to pass it up!

I hate that you might be right.....

 

[Darren McCord]

We haven’t see Heinen with Rust before. I could see it potentially working out, but not really holding my breath.

They played together with Carter last season for a few games and the line was good. But ya we will see

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I hate that you might be right.....

Yeah we'd better keep our fingers crossed that Heinen on L2 works out or Sullivan might be quick with the hook and go back to GCR in order to give Malkin better options to work with on L2.

lol I'm just kidding Sullivan doesn't give a shit about Malkin.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Sorry.

I'm more concerned with how Mark Donk is feeling about this.

 

[pistolpete11]

This seems somewhat likely TBH. Though the team seems reluctant to put Raks on LW at times.

The real question is what is the over/under on number of periods before it happens?

 

[BusinessGoose]

A week to week (aka month long) and longer term (aka monthS long) injury. That don't require surgery. Wtf did they even injure then?

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

The real question is what is the over/under on number of periods before it happens?

Well if Heinen could just bury like 1/100th of the insano setups he tends to get when playing with Malkin then we're good to go.

...so like five periods, max.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I think Rakell-Geno-Kap might be decent if Kap keeps playing this simple, straight forward game.

Hate GCRust though. Bleh.

 

[The Old Master]

They could try Kapanen on l2 RW and Rust on l2 LW. Or Kapanen l2 LW.

I don't think Rust or Kapanen are very comfortable on LW though so it's most likely Heinen there.

kapy seems to play his best on his off wing (small sample size)

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I think Rakell-Geno-Kap might be decent if Kap keeps playing this simple, straight forward game.

Hate GCRust though. Bleh.

Heinen/Malkin/Kap was more than passable in the playoffs, especially as an emergency option everyone expected to crater. One would think Raks in place of Heinen would be even better. But regular season Malkin and playoff Malkin are different beasts, too.

 

[ncm7772]

Two of my most hated Sully terms; “longer-term” and “week-to-week”.

 

[Al Smith]

Hopefully this isn’t the return of Zucker’s wonky groin because he was pretty much useless and completely unreliable while he was nursing that along last year.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Heinen/Malkin/Kap was more than passable in the playoffs, especially as an emergency option everyone expected to crater. One would think Raks in place of Heinen would be even better. But regular season Malkin and playoff Malkin are different beasts, too.

I still can't figure out whether you revile or you love Geno.

Yeah, it's gonna be a blast trying to sort out a working 2nd line. Just as Rust was coming to life, the guy who does all the work for that line goes down--but we all expected that anyway.