These Pettersson trades are getting out of hand.

1) Pens aren't retaining.
2) Even if they sell, it won't be major pieces. They still plan on trying to ice a playoff team next year and that means keeping Pettersson.

Pettersson only likely becomes available at next year's deadline if the Pens are cooked and he plans on testing the market.

yeah i agree, plus this trade doesn’t do anything much for us now or in the future, in the event that Petts is traded. Would have to be a significant overpay where we can’t decline the trade imo.

Description of this post:

This ignores cost to acquire players, YES I AM AWARE MOST OF THEM ARE NOT AVAILABLE, YES I AM AWARE THET PROBABLY WOULD COST MORE, and is simply my view of how NJD would make the best possible team for this specific year while avoiding overages.

If I traded for a player here, simply take it as a compliment bc it means I am a big fan of their game

mcleod for toffoli is a joke. They will just give a first for toffoli half retains.

This ignores cost to acquire players, YES I AM AWARE MOST OF THEM ARE NOT AVAILABLE, YES I AM AWARE THET PROBABLY WOULD COST MORE, and is simply my view of how NJD would make the best possible team for this specific year while avoiding overages.

If I traded for a player here, simply take it as a compliment bc it means I am a big fan of their game

I put about 0 seconds of thought into the packages

Yeah, I read the description, but it still doesn't make sense. If you're going to ignore most reality, then why even attempt to be somewhat realistic? It doesn't make sense. Just go send a 3rd round pick for Tage Thompson or something.

Because It was off the dome and I've had conversations with other pens fans regarding these assets and Pettersson throughout the season

What's the issue with Toffoli? Seems to be the odd man out in a lot of these.

Earlier (pre McLeod exile) it was because there were 10 guys who all deserved top 9 spots.

I wanted lines of:
Hughes-Haula-Mercer
Nico-Palat-Bratt
McLeod-Meier-Holtz
Lazar-Smith-Bastian

Now it’s still similar in that I’d like to give toffolis role to holtz, but also in that we now have other needs.

A) this may not be our year and we may sell
B) due to injuries we need to preserve cap space to prevent our rookie bonuses from rolling over
C) our most pressing need is a puck moving LD and PK guy, followed by a goalie, followed by improvements to our depth/4th line/PKing forwards (took a big hit losing McLeod who had been elite on both ends)

So moving toffoli, who is a touch slow for our system imo, in order to get A) Cap space B) Holtz into the top 6 and C) assets to use to fill more crucial needs is a prudent solution instead of losing him for nothing in the offseason assuming he doesn’t resign.

Double shift Graves. It’ll be fine.

His agent and our GM talked extension recently and no news on that. So, no extension + our place on standings = fan speculation.

Also…our top lines play fast…and he has struggled with tempo on transition at times. In the o-zone, he is great.

HABS are not trading SM. He is the only one we have that can make a save

Description of this post:
This ignores cost to acquire players, YES I AM AWARE MOST OF THEM ARE NOT AVAILABLE, YES I AM AWARE THET PROBABLY WOULD COST MORE, and is simply my view of how NJD would make the best possible team for this specific year while avoiding overages.

If I traded for a player here, simply take it as a compliment bc it means I am a big fan of their game