Salary Cap: Salary Cap and Roster Building... just start the draft dammit

[HandshakeLine]

We can’t be selling Letang that cheap, can we?

Well, those Easy Spirits aren’t doing him any favors.

 

[Malkinstheman]

We can’t be selling Letang that cheap, can we?

I dont think that literally means 1 for 1. Kapanen by himself as in without a bad contract attached. It would have to be a package.

 

[PensandCaps]

Kadri and Kapnen are actually two players that would probably fit in well here. I am tired of changing 3C so often though.

If you think 3C is hard to find, just wait to see how hard it will be to replace a top 5 Dman in the whole world.

 

[ColePens]

Letang for Kap is not something that even gets the Pens to stop laughing at toronto.

Kap amd Kadri for Letang is still a no.

We need more Good Dmen. Not less..

I honestly could not imagine this defense with keeping JJ and losing Letang. I've said it a trillion times... I never count this team out. Even in the darkest times I was saying we had what we needed to build to a Cup.

But taking Letang out of that defense w/o finding a way to bring in a Letang-like player (which just sounds f***ing stupid) would push me off that positivity bridge.

 

[PensandCaps]

I honestly could not imagine this defense with keeping JJ and losing Letang. I've said it a trillion times... I never count this team out. Even in the darkest times I was saying we had what we needed to build to a Cup.

But taking Letang out of that defense w/o finding a way to bring in a Letang-like player (which just sounds ****ing stupid) would push me off that positivity bridge.

a letang trade, to me, is window closing. Done.

 

[ImporterExporter]

I honestly could not imagine this defense with keeping JJ and losing Letang. I've said it a trillion times... I never count this team out. Even in the darkest times I was saying we had what we needed to build to a Cup.

But taking Letang out of that defense w/o finding a way to bring in a Letang-like player (which just sounds ****ing stupid) would push me off that positivity bridge.

I'll say it again.

You do not f***ing trade Kris Letang.

I'd honestly entertain trading Malkin before Tanger. Because I think Malkin brings back more and we still have some dude named Crosby.

All of this rumor mill and gossip about Malkin and Tanger is just nonsense anyway. Yet people fall for it every year.

Sensationalism has ruined the "news".

 

[Riptide]

I’m sure Callahan does have a degenerative back problem, as does about a quarter of nhl players I’m sure...look at Kessler with his ****...and you can go on playing with it...all TB has to do is send him to some doctor and get him/her to write that it’s career threatening (and so are Horny’s concussions btw) and then TB is entitled to put him on LTIR? That’s so bogus and it’s so nhl to allow that kind of cap circumvention...

Look at what Dupuis went though to still play. Do you really think he's unique? Do you really think that if Callahan could safely play that he would voluntarily sit out? I'm not saying that GMs are not taking advantage of some of these situations... but the idea that Callahan is sitting out to do TB a solid is just fan paranoia. If he could play, he'd play.

 

[Andy99]

Kadri HAS to be in that deal.

Yeah, but we can’t afford to take on two more forwards for a D man...forget what he does to generate offense here...we can’t afford not to get a D back somewhere...

 

[madinsomniac]

Look ... no matter what “shake up” they think they want, they damn well better have a coherent idea of what this team needs to be... because if they dump letang for a safer yet less talented player then do the same for Kessel, they aren’t fixing anything, they are shuffling deficiencies in D to O and they really don’t have that great an O anyhow.

Find players that fit strengths... im just afraid that this is going to be another on the fly remake that JR did when he first got here, and we are going to reek for the first part of the year with fewer assets to bail us out later

 

[dogthateats]

If you think 3C is hard to find, just wait to see how hard it will be to replace a top 5 Dman in the whole world.

What if I don’t think 3c is hard to find and I am just tired of it changing?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

What if you can flip Phil for another too 4 d-man?

Maybe. Depends on the quality of that D.

 

[Ludwig120]

I would be afraid of Kadri with how he gets himself suspended and the way the refs hate us he would be suspended for life within a month

 

[Turin]

Ive always thought that the 08 team would beat the 09 team in 6 games.

Prime Hossa edges out the depth of 09.

Except Michel Therrien was a horrible coach. The 2008 team got blown out by Detroit in large part because Detroit played a modern game and the Pens never had the puck under Therrien.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

I can't find a way to make a Toronto deal fit under the cap.

Letang, ZAR for Zaitsev, Dermott, Kadri, Kapanen fits. Toronto doesn't do that, though. Anything else that fits, I wouldn't do from the Pens perspective.

 

[PensandCaps]

I'll say it again.

You do not ****ing trade Kris Letang.

I'd honestly entertain trading Malkin before Tanger. Because I think Malkin brings back more and we still have some dude named Crosby.

All of this rumor mill and gossip about Malkin and Tanger is just nonsense anyway. Yet people fall for it every year.

Sensationalism has ruined the "news".

100%.

You can trade Malkin and still contend.

Letang is way more irreplaceable. You still have a Crosby if Malkin is traded.


But i actually think Letang has more value than Malkin league wide.

GMs love elite #1 RHD on good cap hits.

But we are in no posistion to move letang and still be a good team.

 

[SouthGeorge]

 

[PensandCaps]

I can't find a way to make a Toronto deal fit under the cap.

Letang, ZAR for Zaitsev, Dermott, Kadri, Kapanen fits. Toronto does do that, though. Anything else that fits, I wouldn't do from the Pens perspective.

thats god awful.

Zaitev is a waiver wire player making 4 mil for the next forever.

 

[Turin]

Is Morgan Reilly coming with Kapanen?

 

[Empoleon8771]

I can't even imagine how drunk Dubas has to get JR for him to accept the spare parts the Leafs would be offering for Letang.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

thats god awful.

Zaitev is a waiver wire player making 4 mil for the next forever.

Toronto is one of the three teams I hate the most. I only watch them when they play the Pens, so I doubt I'm good at this.

 

[PensandCaps]

Cant wait to see Gudbranson,JJ and Schultz as our three RHD

 

[SouthGeorge]

Look at the last 3 Stanley Cup Champions. Letang is expendable. Malkin isn't.

 

[PensandCaps]

Toronto is one of the three teams I hate the most. I only watch them when they play the Pens, so I doubt I'm good at this.

you can usaully tell which players in toronto are bad by seeing how many times leaf fans include them in trades.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Someone mentioned this a few pages ago, but a deal around Kessel to Colorado for Barrie and Zadorov is something I would absolutely do.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Look at the last 3 Stanley Cup Champions. Letang is expendable. Malkin isn't.

St. Louis won with Pietrangelo and Parayko on RD.