At the time of the zucker trade it was a good one. The early returns were promising but once he was paired with malkin his production shot down

How did the Pens go in the expansion draft with their protection list, 7F/3D/1G or 4F/4D/1G ??

7,3,1

Crosby, Malkin, Blueger, Kapanen, Guentzel, Rust, Carter
Dumoulin, Letang, Matheson
Jarry

They must've protected Marino over Matheson?

I think he was exempt, they protected Matheson

The Pens had a pretty bad offseason/expansion draft.

Marino was exempt.



I don't think it was bad. I would have liked to keep one of either McCann or Tanev and we definitely could have gotten more from Toronto for McCann. But I don't know how the cap situation would have worked out had we kept one, and I've loved McGinn and Heinen's play so far. Heinen is very versatile and was one of our best players in the early few games and the line of ZAR-Blueger-McGinn has been the Pens' most consistent over the season so far.

The cap actually works better without Zucker on the roster.

Sullivan is stubborn. Guentzel had career year with Malkin and Zucker was great with Crosby, but he refuses to change.

take away his or mathesons contract and the cap situation looks a lot better lol. although they haven't been too bad this year they just aren't playing up to the their dollar

I do think Matheson is a top four defenseman and has played good, just needs a better partner than Ruhwedel. Ruhwedel is good for about 5-7 games than falls off.

i like petty has the 4th guy with marino. i honestly see him taking over for dumoulin when hes done. we'll see what happens in a year or 2 tho