DesertPenguin
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Proposal: [PIT] [ANA] Poulin for LaCombe
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Empoleon8771
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Yeah I could see Puustinen for Lacombe being of more interest to them. Puustinen is a bit older but he's more of a proven NHL player than Poulin.
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FiveTacos
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It's sure as hell not Lacombe, who's never played a single game in the AHL. Even if he doesn't improve one lick, he's already good enough for a decent career as a 3rd pairing NHLer. Worse guys than him are hanging around on NHL rosters.
All he's proven is that he's a 25 year old undersized skill player who doesn't score a lot.
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Yep. Not sure why he’s making comments about a player he obviously knows nothing about.
To be fair, that's pretty much expected with any Anaheim trade thread...
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Empoleon8771
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If that's how you describe Puustinen, I'm curious for how you'd describe Zegras.
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I know that wasn’t directed at me but…
One is a 25 year old with a high of 5 goals and 25 points.
The other is a 23 year old with two 20+ goal, 60+ point seasons.
Empoleon8771
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The career high doesn't matter if Zegras only has like 20 points in his last 2 years and is pacing for like 16 points this year.
FiveTacos
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It's not like it was ages ago. One injury plagued year last year where he played hurt and out of position, then broke his ankle.
And have you checked his splits at LW vs C? He's played around the same number of games at each position the last two years, but overall he's gotten 15 of his 19 points at C. Which is probably why they've finally given up on the LW experiment the last two weeks.
But sure, Puustinen is very similar to Zegras at LW. Problem is, Zegras as a LW .... sucks.
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As a better player than f***ing Valtteri Puustinen that’s for sure
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It’s disingenuous of you to make it like it’s been two years when a) it’s been a little over a season, and b) he was injured most of last season. He played injured to start and then missed a ton of games on IR, only to return healthy and put up good numbers to end the season. But yeah, let’s pretend that he played all last season and has already played another full season this season.
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Pettersson being likely to move is a valid point, but i'd question is Lacombe is really the right type of defenceman for the Penguins as a "fit". Or if he'd just end up sort of "lost in the shuffle" if he doesn't mesh with Letang/Karlsson.
Doesn't really matter if the value is Poulin going back...who has a pretty replaceable profile himself. But i'm not sure this really appeals to the Ducks on "value" and i don't think any more value makes sense for the Penguins. Also just question where he'd play in the meantime, unless it's a follow-up or precursor to a Pettersson trade. But even then...Graves is the main real "big size" guy left, and he's already sort of "poor fitted" himself to a pairing away from both Karlsson and Letang because that doesn't work. So you have to think Lacombe will fit with one of those two and i'm not sold on the idea. You never know though...
Well yes, but if they weren't able to use cherry picked time lines and deliberately misinterpreted stats then they might be forced to give up their fantasy that they can steal Zegras from Anaheim for a box of used practice pucks and a 7th round pick. And we certainly can't have that...
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I could see doing this type of deal with Lacombe, but the forward coming back needs to have more comparable upside.
Would rather package together some pieces for some more established help though, the Ducks need to start icing a more competitive product.
Would rather package together some pieces for some more established help though, the Ducks need to start icing a more competitive product.
