Stephenson and Schultz arent signing for those amounts.

And as a possible 2 years out of playoffs, all this team is, is older. If Poulin and Puustinen aren;t making on this team this year, they're probably not next year.

But expecting old players to get better? Thats crazy.

Puustinen is literally on the team now

for how long, its a merry go round of guys getting their chance, last week nylader was the answer

I think it’s pretty outrageous to suggest those two players are having similar career trajectories. Puustinen absolutely has a chance to make the bottom six next year if he doesn’t end up staying this year.

Nylander will never be a bottom six nhl player. He just won’t

True, but is it a win to finally have a young guy, pusstinen, break though in bottom 6?

When all of the impact players are early/mid to late 30s, you'd hope a poulin, pusttinen, poj breakthrough to top 6/top 4. The idea that youre going to get better results as an old team gets older is crazy.

I mean the johnssons, nietos, acciaris, carters, harkins, jonhstones, ellers, etc... are all part of this older/journeymen/never weres bottom 6 rotation they have going to cover the fact they have little hope/faith in poulins, pusstinen. It'd be great to think that with rackell struggling that pusttinen breaks through, but even in the roster above you have signed poulin and pust to just 800k for 1 yr, and placed them outside the starting 12, so even you have little faith in them

How on earth would having a good young player be a bad thing in any situation ever? Frankly that is absurd.

Well even you dont have any faith in the penguin system, otherwise why would you only sign pustinen for 1 yr at a minimal increase to 800k (with just 60k of cap space) and then list him as your 13th or 14th forward, even in your crystal ball of the future you kind of think he sucks, and youd rather play the 30 something year olds

You are taking a MASSIVE L on Puustinen lmao