Rounding out the edges

By “make the money work a little better” you mean run a 20-man roster and still be over the cap? Pens say nope.

Edit: also, we don’t know if the Pens can trade Harkins. I believe a waiver claimed player must be offered to another team(s) who submitted a claim on said player before he can be traded. I.e., If both the Pens and Panthers submitted a waiver claim on Harkins the Pens would have to offer Harkins to Florida before they could trade him. If Florida declined, the Pens could trade him (unless a third team had submitted, etc.).

I honestly want to keep Harkins for now at least. Think he's looked pretty solid so far.

Dubas will definitely add to the bottom-6 at some point this year but not sure it will be Henrique… he doesn’t seem a dubas style player but weirder things happen every day so no dubas move would surprise me

Any ideas on players he could add that would be more his style?

If you manage the cap well, you can probably do this deal at the deadline. It’s pretty close to compliant