Scuderi has a no trade clause I believe so I doubt he will go to Arizona. Also I'm a Canucks and pens fan and I love that trade for both teams!

I wish people would stop dumping Scuds in Arizona. It will never happen. Both Scuds and Arizona say no to it.

If Rutherford somehow would manage to pull this off I would be very satisfied. It would give us plenty of cap space, while improving our defence.

It's not a bad deal, but I would prefer Rutherford to go after the younger, faster, bigger Franson for the same price. Although I do like the idea of trading away Sutter and Lovejoy.

Agreed. Your comment should be mandatory reading for all Armchair GMs.

I agree with everyone that scuderi and Arizona want no part of each other. Also, giving up a third just to dump to salary is too much, especially when the pens have so few picks

I know that, I just want him off the team. We have 3 third round picks next year and we can offer 1 or 2 of them to get rid of him. If you tell Scuderi it's either Arizona or Wilkes Barre I ber he would take Arizona. And the Coyotes are not looking to win in the next few years so they accommodate us and then have 3.3 million in cap space in 2 years and a good mentor for their young guys in the meantime. There is not a contender that would take him off our hands so we have to think outside the box. He is not built for our system and Brian Dumoulin is ready for third pairing full time minnutes.

Franson would be better and he's a right handed shot to replace Lovejoy, but we do not have cap space for him. We could ask him to take a 1 year deal at a low cap hit and promise to sign him to a better deal next summer when Hamhuis comes off the books.

Pens have 3 third round picks next year and losing 1 to get rid of Scuderi is MORE than worth it.