What a Healthy Penguins Team couldve look like

Never understood the Oleksiak trade at all...

When a Pens fan and a Philly fan agree! The world is ending! I know the penguins back end would be slower with Oleksiak in the line-up, but I think they could've switched Pettersson and Maatta or trade for a more offensive/faster defence man to pair with Oleksiak... or just use the bottom pairing as a shutdown pair with Pettersson and Oleksiak. I'm also just an internet junky so maybe I don't know what's best for the team...

Yeah, GMJR has made a lot of panic moves lately, his moves usually work out, but I think they are coming back to get him, pens are going to have issues with the Salary Cap soon. The JJ deal is horrible and I know most pens fans feel the same way, and EG is like a rich mans jack johnson. It all could have been avoided if they did not trade Oleksiak, I just dont understand that.. Its funny when we agree haha

It’s because Sullivan loves the lefty righty matchup with dmen and we have dumo,maatta,petterson,Johnson, riikola and if we had oleksiak we would’ve pushed riikola back further and he needs to continue to develop.

My guess is internal matter.
They expected Oleksiak to be aggressive with a player like wilson who was targeting players. Instead he wasn't. When they did fight Oleksiak just let him jump him instead of going right after him. That was it. I think Oleksiak didn't want to be put in that situation to being with and that is where it ended. If you weren't going to be that guy, then there wasn't a place on the team for him.
Notice he was on the ice in the Stars vs Knights game and did nothing when Reaves was being a wrecking ball on Stars players. Hell Reaves even hit him in the head with a high stick. If you don't understand that is the exact reason why he was shipped out than you don't understand why he was brought in to begin with.