Will They Regret Trading Hornqvist

Created by: AnalyticsGeek

Team: 2020-21 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 26, 2020

Published: Nov. 26, 2020

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Though it hasn't been talked about a lot, I feel Hornqvist is gonna have a monster year in Florida next season. If he stays healthy, I bet he can get around 30 goals. He's going to be playing alongside 2 elite playmaking forwards who will be able to get him the puck in scoring areas, plus will see top PP time. I don't really understand why the Penguins didn't give Hornqvist much of an opportunity alongside Crosby over the past 2 seasons. Historically, the Guentzel-Crosby-Hornqvist line have always done great in terms of generating offence, yet the coach always played inferior guys like Sheary or Simon in that RW position. Honestly if they kept Hornqvist, there would've been no need to give up a 1st and top prospect for Kapanen. They could've used those assets to get an excellent 3C instead.

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Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$77,892,676	$0	$850,000	$3,607,324

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Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 5	Hörnqvist, Patric $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW NTC UFA - 3
Zucker, Jason $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Malkin, Evgeni $9,500,000$9,500,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Rust, Bryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
McCann, Jared $2,940,000$2,940,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Lowry, Adam $2,916,667$2,916,667 C UFA - 1	Poulin, Samuel $894,167$894,167 C, LW RFA - 4
Aston-Reese, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Blueger, Teddy $750,000$750,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 5

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dumoulin, Brian $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Letang, Kris $7,250,000$7,250,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Jarry, Tristan $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 3
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD UFA - 5	Marino, John $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 1	DeSmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000 G UFA - 2
Riikola, Juuso $1,150,000$1,150,000 LD UFA - 2	Ceci, Cody $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Rodrigues, Evan $700,000$700,000 LW, C UFA - 1
Jankowski, Mark $700,000$700,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Ruhwedel, Chad $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Hörnqvist, P.		Crosby, S.		Poulin, S.
	Letang, K.		Malkin, E.

Power Play 2
Zucker, J.		McCann, J.		Guentzel, J.
	Rust, B.		Marino, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Lowry, A.	Tanev, B.
	Dumoulin, B.	Letang, K.

Penalty Kill 2
	Blueger, T.	Aston-Reese, Z.
	Marino, J.	Ceci, C.

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Nov. 26, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.

AnalyticsGeek

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Do you guys think the Penguins made a mistake trading Hornqvist?

Nov. 26, 2020 at 3:31 p.m.

SevenLeg

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A 1st round pick for Adam Lowry

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Nov. 26, 2020 at 3:36 p.m.

hockeyfanatic05

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Because he is slow, has no hands, and cant play top 6 minutes on a real contender

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Nov. 26, 2020 at 3:37 p.m.

Theozler

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

Do you guys think the Penguins made a mistake trading Hornqvist?

If I thought they were still top contenders...yes. The fact that they've bombed the last two years makes me think it was worth the risk of an underachieving Matheson. If he can regain that form of a few years ago it allows them to possibly deal dumolin or pettersson for a superior forward to hornqvist which could make them better. Worst case they dont go far in playoffs which was likely the case anyway.

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Nov. 26, 2020 at 3:39 p.m.

PGHBOB69

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

Do you guys think the Penguins made a mistake trading Hornqvist?

No, we needed to get younger and faster. Hornqvist was owed 5.3M for 3 more years. I wish we would have done better in the trade. But it still afforded us 500k in cap space and although people dislike matheson, he’s only 26, he definitely adds speed to our team, and an offensive defensemen, and Pens have a good defensive system and have a descent track record with under-performing talent, so we’ll see!!

I think it was a good idea, and if the best we could get back from a 33 year old Hornqvist, who was owed 5.3M for 3 more years was Matheson, which I’m sure it was the best option, then ya, it’s the right move. But like I said, I would’ve have liked a better return, or Matheson is fine, and I don’t even hate the contract number, it’s the term.

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