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

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

They all should have gone as ghosts. Though Malkin as a dried up old skeleton seems pretty close.

 

[K Fleur]

*Sprong

Sprong has more points than Kapanen and Rakell this season.

Maybe 10 years from now he’ll be old enough to play here.

 

[Gurglesons]

When you compare them to Dumo no but Petry in particular has not been great.

Now he’s 12 games in and it usually takes time for new players to adjust but I would hope for more from him moving forward.

Petry is providing the same underlying analytics as the player he replaced this year in actual heavy usage versus what Matheson provided. The goalscoring isn’t there, but Matheson was awful his first year here

 

[K Fleur]

Petry is providing the same underlying analytics as the player he replaced this year in actual heavy usage versus what Matheson provided. The goalscoring isn’t there, but Matheson was awful his first year here

And only for like 150% the price tag!

 

[ZorkEnchanter]

When we have a bunch of 6’2 defensive defenders that actually have weight on their bodies we can talk about how Marino would succeed here.

Petts - Petry has been way better than any Marino pairing in Jersey. Solid win.

Send Dumo to the moon and this team wins the next game immediately IMO.

Dumo is a 1,010 GF% Defender. I'm pretty sure we can trade several #1s for him....

 

[Gurglesons]

And only for like 150% the price tag!

1.35 mil actually

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Sprong has more points than Kapanen and Rakell this season.

Maybe 10 years from now he’ll be old enough to play here.

So does Lafferty. Still don't miss either player. /shrug

 

[K Fleur]

So does Lafferty. Still don't miss either player. /shrug

I don’t miss any players either. I miss watching fun hockey games.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I don’t miss any players either. I miss watching fun hockey games.

So do I, but this decline was easily predictable and the team just shrugged and sat on its hands for the past two-plus years. Outside of, y'know, a blueline reshuffle that's working out swimmingly.

1.35 mil actually

-edit- I'm dumb, I was looking at 2RD specifically and not the whole Matheson-Petry swap.

 

[eXile3]

I don't know about Marino, but Matheson's analytics cratered to end the year as he was playing with Letang and Marino. His results were notably better with Ruhwedel than they were with Marino and Letang.

The playoffs were even worse, Matheson-Letang got scored on 9 times in 7 games at 5v5 and they had bad analytics as well.

If I remember correctly Marino and MP actually had some decent stats in the playoffs burn I’ll recognize that MM & Marino struggled at times against the Rangers best lines.

 

[HandshakeLine]

You can complain about the players not executing all you want, but at the end of the day, they're not putting themselves on the ice.

 

[BusinessGoose]

You can complain about the players not executing all you want, but at the end of the day, they're not putting themselves on the ice.

Can they take themselves off?

Lol, like.. Can the team protest and stay on the bench because they suck so bad?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Somebody got run over by a golf cart during the on-ice demolition derby at practice. Whoops!

"Jake Guentzel is day-to-day with a crushed sternum." - Sullivan, probably

 

[pistolpete11]

Smith for sure is an NHL er and I hope Blossoms into a top 4 D.

Thing is we are in cup mode atleast to start this season.

A top 4 defensemen for a player In the AHL goes backwards.


I just think we could have done better. We took on cap with the Petry deal when maybe we could have done something different.

Unfortunately we are stuck and gotta deal with. My only suggestion is Dumo 3rd pair stat.

Petry + Rutta + Smith + Poehling + 3rd > Matheson + Marino + 4th

You can look at everything in a vacuum and nitpick how they got there if you want, but it's a better roster with those moves.

The current issues are not any of these guys involved anyway. The issue is Dumo being washed and Letang playing some of the worst hockey of his career (which may or may not have something to do with how terrible Dumo is right now).

 

[HandshakeLine]

Somebody got run over by a golf cart during the on-ice demolition derby at practice. Whoops!

"Jake Guentzel is day-to-day with a crushed sternum." - Sullivan, probably

"We really liked Hallander's lack of upside and his willingness to nod at any dumb idea the coaching staff suggested."

Can they take themselves off?

Lol, like.. Can the team protest and stay on the bench because they suck so bad?

If we ever got to the point where there was an actual in-game mutiny, I'd probably laugh so hard I'd choke.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

"We really liked Hallander's lack of upside and his willingness to nod at any dumb idea the coaching staff suggested."

"If you gave him McGinn's jersey, you'd never even know the difference! We love that about the kid!"

 

[HandshakeLine]

I'm being mean of course at the coaching staff's expense, I'm actually glad Hallander gets a cup of coffee. I'm just also a little skeptical that the one thing holding this team back was a rookie in the bottom 6.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I do think Hallander can/should make McGinn expendable, especially if he's not gonna be tried in the top-9.

It's just a matter of whether Hextall & Co. think it's worth it to move McGinn.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Don't worries guys. Teddy will come back and save season.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

"If you gave him McGinn's jersey, you'd never even know the difference! We love that about the kid!"

It's kind of laughable how every "prospect" we call up basically is best suited as a 4th line plug.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

It's kind of laughable how every "prospect" we call up basically is best suited as a 4th line plug.

Agree there, for sure. But I do think a team has use for those kinds of guys, especially on dirt cheap contracts.

But we gotta throw out hefty deals for the McGinns and Tanevs of the world cuz hockey execs overvalue 4th liners like crazy.

 

[Gurglesons]

It's kind of laughable how every "prospect" we call up basically is best suited as a 4th line plug.

Almost weird how that is apparently the coaching staff’s message.

 

[Andy99]

Somebody got run over by a golf cart during the on-ice demolition derby at practice. Whoops!

"Jake Guentzel is day-to-day with a crushed sternum." - Sullivan, probably

Well they don’t have the cap to do this unless Blueger is not being activated or Carter or someone else is going on LTIR lol

 

[HandshakeLine]

Well they don’t have the cap to do this unless Blueger is not being activated or Carter or someone else is going on LTIR lol

Please be Carter. He’s looked awful this year.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Please be Carter. He’s looked awful this year.

Fingers crossed ol' Coors Light retires after this season.