Pens When Healthy

Ouch. Two long term, somewhat expensive Dmen as scratches.

trades are coming. It's only a matter of time.
Come the draft i see a lot of dead weight cleared out. They have to basically right the ship next year or realize it's time to trade Crosby and Malkin out and start the rebuild. Malkin will be 33 next year, Crosby 32. There is only another year or two left there.

To be fair, the post is wrong. There's no way Maatta sits for Riikola. Now Grudbranson and Johnson might sit which is just as bad. Sullivan doesn't like or trust Riikola enough to play him over Maatta or Johnson. Maatta's also far superior.

Simon also plays over Wilson in reality not this fantasy land.

Crosby will never be traded. Letang probably not. Malkin maybe. Kessel probably.
But they need to unload about 6-8M of cap space if they want to keep Pettersson, Riikola and ZAR while not being up against the ceiling. Going to be an interesting off-season.

Sadly "lots" of teams have to unload cap.....Pens, Tampa, Leafs, Jets, Ducks (although they unload Montour) Some teams with cap space might be able to pick up some NHL calibre players very cheap.