Salary Cap: Pens Summer Salary Thread: Dull days of August... Oooo! A trade!

[Dennis Reynolds]

Laine for Harris and a 2nd.

Pens could have beat that.

EDIT: The 2nd came from the Jackets' side. It's Laine and a 2nd for Harris.

 

[Gurglesons]

Laine for Harris and a 2nd.

Pens could have beat that.

Nah. Columbus is adding a 2nd to the deal to get Harris.

Dubas out here getting paid to take Kevin Hayes while Montreal is getting paid to take Laine...

 

[McGroarty2]

To start last season, Pens were running

Guentzel Crosby Rust
Smith Malkin Rakell
O'Connor Eller Harkins
Nieto Acciari Carter

I'm actually more optimistic about this season than last.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Did Laine come with a draft pick of dubious real-world value several years from now in order to take him? Would Sullivan even allow a player like him on his roster?

No?

Then it wasn't happening.

EDIT: lol nevermind actually looks like Laine DID come with a draft pick haha... oh well... at least we have Kevin Hayes!

 

[Malkinstheman]

Laine for Harris and a 2nd.

Pens could have beat that.

Laine AND a second for Harris lmao. Not sure how Montreal pulled that off

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825617341469626862

My dreams are shattered

The Pens will trade Letang to Montreal for Laine.

 

[Gurglesons]

Did Laine come with a draft pick of dubious real-world value several years from now in order to take him? Would Sullivan even allow a player like him on his roster?

No?

Then it wasn't happening.

yes.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Harris is really, really mid.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

"Listen just give Mike a list of new analytics buzzwords he can use after losing yet another pathetic attempt at the sport with his low event bullshit. He's starting to run out of vocabulary and people are getting suspicious that he is utterly out of ideas or maybe didn't actually have any to begin with."

"So a lot, then?"

That's why he insisted on his Rays picture for the press release, he'll be back in baseball soon.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

yes.

I know I just saw the actual deal.

Hilarious.

Ah well at least we can tell ourselves that "he wasn't a Sullivan player, anyway" and that makes it better!

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

I imagine there WAS a deal in place, but the Pens wouldn't let Laine wear his #29.

 

[Trade]

The Pens will trade Letang to Montreal for Laine.

Letang and Geno for Dubas’ favorite Johnny Tavares

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Some teams get potential 30-40 goal scorers and a pick for something called a "Jordan Harris" and others get some nerd-stat dude from a baseball team to work an angle that we still don't even know is all that effective or illustrative in this sport. Nice.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

Laine AND a second for Harris lmao. Not sure how Montreal pulled that off

We're seeing a lot of this in NHL and NFL too.
Players announce they don't want to play for their current team (or the team is sick of that player). That puts the current team in a bind where they get pennies on the dollar

Saw it with EK last year.
Few players in the NFL had this happen too (Steelers sent out DJ). And there are the Aiyuk rumors.

If you are the team, there isn't much you can do to extract value bc destinations are limited

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Some teams get potential 30-40 goal scorers and a pick for something called a "Jordan Harris" and others get some nerd-stat dude from a baseball team to work an angle that we still don't even know is all that effective or illustrative in this sport. Nice.

The Pens are owned by baseball fans, so they are going to find a way to bring pitching to the ice.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

The Pens are owned by baseball fans, so they are going to find a way to bring pitching to the ice.

It would go a long way towards explaining why there is so much tedious standing around and looking bored on this team the last several years, I suppose.

 

[WickedWrister]

Laine also makes 8.7m per...

 

[AuroraBorealis]

So no retention? Laine costs Crosby's AAV for 2 years and hasn't been available for half the games over the last 3 years. Doesn't defend either.
What a tremendous deal for Columbus. The great escape.

 

[deakka]

I mean. Sure, I'd rather have Laine than Hayes. But Laine makes more than twice as much.

 

[SomeDude]

Mike Sullivan I’m sure already loves Hayes and would have ripped the throat out of Laine when he came into camp wearing a turtleneck.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Nah. Columbus is adding a 2nd to the deal to get Harris.

Dubas out here getting paid to take Kevin Hayes while Montreal is getting paid to take Laine...

Some teams get potential 30-40 goal scorers and a pick for something called a "Jordan Harris" and others get some nerd-stat dude from a baseball team to work an angle that we still don't even know is all that effective or illustrative in this sport. Nice.

Who knows If Columbus even would want to deal with us.

I always feel this energy from them that they would not want to deal with us.

I'd rather have

Rakell + a 2nd for laine
Then
Laine + 2nd for Harris

I remember all the Columbus fans laughing.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Oh, I have no opinion on the actual hiring. I just think it's weird they couldn't have snapped a different headshot for the guy.

tbh if he’s remote (or even if not) he’s probably sending the PR/HR person the picture he wants them to use in the press release

But who knows maybe the Pens are broke and can’t afford to do headshots for non-players

 

[SomeDude]

I mean. Sure, I'd rather have Laine than Hayes. But Laine makes more than twice as much.

That makes sense since he has twice the chance of actually being good and 9 times the skill of Hayes.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I thought we didn't care about over-inflated deals now that we're "rebuilding" or whatever? Doesn't that help to have questionable contracts on the books eating up cap for a trash heap team like this one?

Some consistency would be nice.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

I'm still so angry that Hayes is a Pen.