The pens have Crosby, Malkin, Guentzel, Rust, Rakell, even Kapanen and Heinen. Hoffman isn’t even that good at offense. He’s only been a slight upgrade offensively over Zucker the past couple years but a massive downgrade everywhere else. Idk if you know this or not but hockey is about more than just offense. Again you can try to sprinkle your pile of crap all you want but it’s still crap. And what’s your point about Kessel? That was what? 5-6 years ago when both players were in their prime. Malkin was a lot more defensively responsible. But now at his older age, he isn’t as defensively responsible. Not to mention they also would play Hagelin on that line who was amazing defensively to make up for the defense too. But they also had to trade Kessel shortly after that. They would get absolutely torched. So yes they do have a problem bringing in a player who doesn’t play defensively. Sullivan doesn’t use players like that. Kapanen gets scratched all the time cause he stinks defensively and if he isn’t going through a slump offensively he isn’t bringing anything but bad news.
No you literally spent the first half of your comment discussing the other reason I’ve given. It’s not just because he has an extra year on his contract. It’s because Hoffman sucks at literally everything. Even what he’s supposed to be good at, he’s only a slight upgrade over Zucker. Zucker is a massive upgrade over him everywhere else. There is a reason that Habs fans keep trying to trade us Hoffman for Zucker. It’s because they even know Zucker is the better player lol. So you’re dead wrong that Hoffman is the better player at this point. I understand Habs fans tend to be homers on this site but you’ve gotta look at the whole body of work. If they both only had 1 year left…the pens might do it. But it’s not because hoffman is the better player. It’s because hoffman is the cheaper player. If they could save the 1 million this year and not have to take on an extra 4.5 million next year it’s a different story. But again not because he’s the better player, just the cheaper player. And if the pens not wanting to do the trade is fine, then why are you arguing about it? The pens decline. That is it. It’s that simple. I don’t have to give you any other excuse except they wouldn’t trade a pile of junk for a pile of junk on a longer contract. If that’s not good enough for you then maybe you need to get off this site cause it’s not for you lol

C’mon man.. Hoffman isn’t that good offensively? He’s averaged 30 goals per 82 over his career.. and he is a power play specialist. He’s a better option than both Rakell and Rust on the PP. if he weren’t on the 1st unit then he would strengthen the 2nd unit, but they absolutely need to make that PP better if they want to actually contend.