Confirmed Trade: [PIT/WPG] Rutger McGroarty for Brayden Yager

[SEALBound]

You’re absolutely right!!!

We don’t have to do this….. But it’s so much more fun when we do.

Mamas Boy calls home and everybody is “so stoked… it’s off the hook”…… from his video.

My hf prediction of this hockey prospect is that he is going to have a so - so NHL career due to character deficiencies..,,.

Jets will win this trade and it won’t even be close….

And the "Cring Post of the Year" Award goes to....

 

[hamzarocks]

Sullivan is the most overrated coach in NHL history. It's the same story for him every year since Tocchet left. Now he can't even get this team to the playoffs...LMAO!

Pens management/ownership committment to Sullivan is just bizzarre

What coach gets so much leeway? No playoff series wins since 2018

Has not made the playoffs since 2022 (2 years and likely to continue with his coaching)

He should have been gone in 2021 after the Isles series imo.

Sullivan is the new Mike Babcock without being a crappy/toxic person. Hes living off his past results for a while like Babcock was in 2016-2020 for the leafs

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I thought his line was a lot better than some of the Pens other lines, for what it's worth.

Didn't look out of place. They got destroyed. Not sure this is the game to be judging as an end all be all game for him, given they lost by 6 goals, but not a discouraging game for him on an individual basis of how he'll do in the NHL this season.

 

[Fatass]

I'm blaming you when Rutger scores a hatrick on us on October 20

Rutger will be in the minors by then. It’s bad for his development to continue in the National League.

 

[Hockey4Lyfe]

The fact the original poster had to bring up the Penguins losing 6-0 and pinning it on McG shows how pathetic the argument was to begin with.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

You’re absolutely right!!!

We don’t have to do this….. But it’s so much more fun when we do.

Mamas Boy calls home and everybody is “so stoked… it’s off the hook”…… from his video.

My hf prediction of this hockey prospect is that he is going to have a so - so NHL career due to character deficiencies..,,.

Jets will win this trade and it won’t even be close….

This, real men stop talking to their moms at 10...

 

[JetsFan815]

DeanYoungblood doing too much

 

[Saitama]

How is this on page 34.....

I'd be quite happy if both teams won the trade, but I'd almost be happy to lose the trade as a Jets fan just to shut that Dean guy up.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

You’re absolutely right!!!

We don’t have to do this….. But it’s so much more fun when we do.

Mamas Boy calls home and everybody is “so stoked… it’s off the hook”…… from his video.

My hf prediction of this hockey prospect is that he is going to have a so - so NHL career due to character deficiencies..,,.

Jets will win this trade and it won’t even be close….

Yep, I said it at the time- no reason for excitement. Stoicism always. It was at that moment I knew- he f***ed up.

 

[roon]

Young Center for Young Wing - on that basis alone the Pens lose this trade.

 

[CanMerc]

This is a rare everybody wins trade…
Pens got the ready now guy they needed to help in the final Crosby/Malkin window years and beyond.
Jets got what they’ve needed for years..a proper natural C to fill out the top 6
The fans got to see 2 teams do what’s best for their organizations and direction

Congrats to the Pens for getting their guy and I hope it all works out for you…(but I will always hope he breaks a skate blade and flops around on the ice like a landed fish every time you play in WPG)

 

[wej20]

Solid 2nd game but I'd rather he go to the AHL if this is going to be his usage. Got to get Kevin Hayes his PP time.

 

[sting101]

At the moment neither of these players are in a optimal development spot. Yager is a case where the NCAA and CHL agreement would be beneficial. The Pens trying to pin getting better on McGroarty is not a fair position to be putting him in.

For Yager he's too good for junior and most of his higher end teammates are gone now. Playing with and against inferior younger kids is not gonna help his development as much as advancing to the NCAA would. He will be 20 in January. A couple years with less games and more time in the weight room would be ideal.

Winnipeg did amazing in this trade considering the circumstances. To get back a similar to higher end prospect with a little longer development path was some great work from Chevy.

 

[ATdaisuki]

McDavid stat line

• 6-0 loss
• 21 shifts, 20 min TOI
• 0 SOG
• -2

I guess we can conclude after one game that McGroarty, who "played better" vs the President's Trophy winners than McDavid did vs WPG is going to have a better season than McDavid. That's how math works, right? Winnipeg got robbed! ROBBED

COOKED him

 

[EpiPen]

Young Center for Young Wing - on that basis alone the Pens lose this trade.

Yes on that basis alone but great news for the Pens. Players aren't rated solely by the position they play.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Didn’t even realize he was playing in the game against NYR, checks out because in highlights of him he was always just there and got points somehow. Very overrated prospect

 

[deakka]

Didn’t even realize he was playing in the game against NYR, checks out because in highlights of him he was always just there and got points somehow. Very overrated prospect

Surprised you seemed to notice anyone else since his line was actually the best of the lot in that 0-6 blowout