Team: 2022-23 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 10, 2023

Published: Mar. 10, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

- The most obvious decision of all time despite no one agreeing with me at the time; keeping McCann and protecting him over 36 year old Carter in the expansion draft and extend him for less than Hextall extended Carter and Kappy combined💀
- Revert this years TDL cause it was a huge success!
- Never extend Carter in the first place
- Revert the Matheson trade
- Re-sign E-Rod last offseason cause he wanted to stay but Hextall never offered cause we already had elite 3C Jeff Carter locked up for 2 more years on a full NMC cause he’s so elite!
- Re-sign Freddy Gaudreau back in 2021 cause he was very affordable and was the perfect 4C.
- Claim Sonny Milano from WSH off waivers back in October
- Claim Rudolfs Balcers off waivers from Florida back in November
- Trade for Jakub Vrana while his value was laughably low
- Never sign McGinn, Rutta and Archibald because they were never needed.
- and finally, the only move I make here that wasn’t officially available to Hextall at a certain time, but let’s not act like this minor deal couldn’t have possibly been made. Trade McGinn’s contract. Anaheim took a 3rd to take his $ and gave us Kulikov at half retained. CHI/ARZ probably take a 5th and McGinn for FC. Why trade for a dman whose older and worse than POJ just to play him over POJ? Hextall logic.

I know you can call this a “looking back I would’ve done this or that” situation, but I prayed for Hextall to make all of these moves at those times and didn’t like the moves he ended up making from the start. Believe what you will…

But in the words of Adam Herman, “You can say that analytics is only part of the equation, doesn’t measure everything, whatever. At the end of the day, like 90% of the worst moves could have been avoided by listening to a teenager with a subscription to Evolving Hockey”

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