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

[Honour Over Glory]

Hextall’s first steps for a move this season should not be to add players but to delete.

1. Trade Heinen and Dumoulin, try to waive Ruhwedel if they can’t move him either.
2. You have Friedman with NHL experience so a loss is Ruhwedel is fine.
3. Losing Dumoulin is a net positive to the defense and allowing Smith to iron out his issues is more beneficial in the long run.
4. Heinen f***ing sucks.
5. Heinen f***ing sucks.
6. Oh right, Heinen f***ing sucks and they can dump him and his cheap contract to literally anyone that wants a warm body, like the Avs, do it and take a pick back or even a player under 1m to waive to wbs.
7. Keep Smith up, call up Doc if they want to use him in the top 9 otherwise call up Hallander and roll him with Archibald in a rotation on the 4th line.

Eichel and Karlsson deals which are what Arizona is asking for.

I am obviously more interested in my idea of Meier for Guentzel.

Timo is a more interesting version of what Guentzel is with a little more size and he likes to get in the dirty areas to score and has zero issues with it. Jake is just easy to derail, rock him once and he’s in his own head.

 

[Gurglesons]

Hextall’s first steps for a move this season should not be to add players but to delete.

1. Trade Heinen and Dumoulin, try to waive Ruhwedel if they can’t move him either.
2. You have Friedman with NHL experience so a loss is Ruhwedel is fine.
3. Losing Dumoulin is a net positive to the defense and allowing Smith to iron out his issues is more beneficial in the long run.
4. Heinen f***ing sucks.
5. Heinen f***ing sucks.
6. Oh right, Heinen f***ing sucks and they can dump him and his cheap contract to literally anyone that wants a warm body, like the Avs, do it and take a pick back or even a player under 1m to waive to wbs.
7. Keep Smith up, call up Doc if they want to use him in the top 9 otherwise call up Hallander and roll him with Archibald in a rotation on the 4th line.


I am obviously more interested in my idea of Meier for Guentzel.

Timo is a more interesting version of what Guentzel is with a little more size and he likes to get in the dirty areas to score and has zero issues with it. Jake is just easy to derail, rock him once and he’s in his own head.

Timo for Guentzel makes no sense for San Jose at all.

 

[DearDiary]

Bettmans plan for the draft was to give the Penguins Bedard. He did not expect that the Pens management would keep driving until all the threads on the tires came off

 

[SEALBound]

I find little wrong with Heinen who was signed for a 1x1 and can be put on any line.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Timo for Guentzel makes no sense for San Jose at all.

Mate. I say this with my whole heart.

f*** San Jose.

 

[Gurglesons]

Mate. I say this with my whole heart.

f*** San Jose.

I think you could get Meier out of San Jose though.

San Jose fans think they are going to get a huge haul for him. I don't agree. If he goes to a team with cap space, sure. But with that QO, he's tough to stomach.

 

[Pancakes]

Why don't we just keep our homegrown dude for once who has proven chemistry with Crosby?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Why don't we just keep our homegrown dude for once who has proven chemistry with Crosby?

I am not against keeping Jake. It’s that he’s been struggling and the coach hasn’t done a single thing to really spark a better game out of him. So he gets to f*** up all over the ice for all of December, face zero consequences for it because of favouritism. Meanwhile if that was Zucker, Sully would demote him to the third line to get his point across.

I mean f*** mate, Kapanen can put up 2 assists and play well in a game and somehow get demoted anyway.

So why bother making any sense for anything anymore.

 

[Gurglesons]

Why don't we just keep our homegrown dude for once who has proven chemistry with Crosby?

If I look at our roster I say if you make a big swing you want a young top six forward who takes Zucker’s spot on L2 or a top pairing LD.

I don’t agree with us trading any of Guentzel, Rakell, or Rust.

If we are going to do a minor trade. 3C / LW type that can balance out the bottom six.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

New year.
New me.

Bold new idea - trade Heinen for broken sticks.

 

[Daeni10]

Why exactly is Meier an upgrade over Guentzel again?

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Why exactly is Meier an upgrade over Guentzel again?

Well this season he's certainly better than Jake. 10 5v5 goals to Jake's 4, playing with worse linemates.
He's a much stronger defensive player too.
This isn't new either. In 2021-22 Meier had the 11th most 5v5 points in the league. 1 back of Draisaitl, to put things in perspective.

Jake may snap out of it soon, but we're at 24 games without a 5v5 goal from him now.
It's great that he's been pumping his stats up with empty net points and by getting carried at ES, but we're most likely gonna need more from him if we wanna make the playoffs.

For the record, I think he'll bounce back soon. He's too good not to.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Arizona board confirms that Chychrun plays RD and is good at it. Hard to trust any of the online listings saying people can play both sides so this is nice to hear.

 

[Pens x]

Wake up, Sleepy. Get rid of Sully’s crappy pets.

 

[K Fleur]

Guentzel and a 1st for Sam Bennett

 

[Power Surge]

I think Trouba spooked him in the playoffs so now he lost his edge.

 

[66-30-33]

New year.
New me.

Bold new idea - trade Heinen for broken sticks.

New year.

FIRE SULLIVAN!!!!

Same me.

 

[SomeDude]

Why exactly is Meier an upgrade over Guentzel again?

He didn’t get a shoulder injury 3 years ago that clearly derailed his career. Also, I can only assume he never had a down stretch of games in his life.

 

[Pancakes]

I am not against keeping Jake. It’s that he’s been struggling and the coach hasn’t done a single thing to really spark a better game out of him. So he gets to f*** up all over the ice for all of December, face zero consequences for it because of favouritism. Meanwhile if that was Zucker, Sully would demote him to the third line to get his point across.

I mean f*** mate, Kapanen can put up 2 assists and play well in a game and somehow get demoted anyway.

So why bother making any sense for anything anymore.

I mean yeah he's struggling. Whatever. Everyone is. He's still over a PPG. He'll be fine.

Great contract too, for at least one more year.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Hextall needs to swing for the fences and bring in Meier, Jeannot and Chychrun.

I bet I could do it in NHL23.

 

[SomeDude]

Hextall needs to swing for the fences and bring in Meier, Jeannot and Chychrun.

I bet I could do it in NHL23.

Just keep piling on the 4th and 5th round picks.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Just keep piling on the 4th and 5th round picks.

I think it was NHL 2004 or 2005 where you could trade your 2nd round pick for another teams 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Just keep repeating.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I think it was NHL 2004 or 2005 where you could trade your 2nd round pick for another teams 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Just keep repeating.

Was Rutherford the person in charge of the CPU trading algorithm back then?

 

[66-30-33]

Hextall needs to swing for the fences and bring in Meier, Jeannot and Chychrun.

I bet I could do it in NHL23.

Might as well bring in Trenin too.

Jake-Crosby-Rakell
Meier-Malkin-Rust
Jeannot-Carter-Trenin
4th line

Chychrun-Letang
Petts-Petry
POJ-Rutta
Ruh

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Just keep piling on the 4th and 5th round picks.

The trick is to layer in those 2nd and 1sts from 2026