Yeah fair value but rather keep Goldy.. What about Hutton instead?

Why would VAN do this? Pouliout is a 23yo bust while Goldoblin is 21 and is looking very promising.

Is he really a bust? I thought they were still pretty high on him in Pitt and his possession stats have been pretty good at the NHL level.

PIT is not high on him. He basically has 1 more year to prove he's worth anything or he's gone. Yeah he has good possession stats but being sheltered on the bottom pairing in a small sample size.

No 23 year old defensemen is a bust. That how old Dumoulin was when he got a sniff of the NHL. It's not at all uncommon, it's just that PIT fans are spoiled and expect every 1st rounder to work out in 3 years or less because we have drafted so few players in the 1st round in the past decade. If he makes the roster at 25 then great. We have a pretty damn good defensive core with out him, so he has to make it as a 7th D, which means he'd only practice rather than actually playing.

He hasn't come along defensively as quickly as we'd like, but offensively he's had the skills since he was 18 ... but we don't want him to play like OTT Karlsson. He'd be playing on nearly half the teams in the league though.

But PIT doesn't need wingers. We need Cs and D prospects the most. We also have NCAA to sign from like we did with Sheary, Rust, Aston-Reese, Johnson, etc since we're cup contenders.