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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.
Thread: Burkextall
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Haymaker26</b></div><div>I don't actually think Jason Zucker is even a cap dump. We won't be getting anywhere near what we paid for him, but his production in Pittsburgh hasn't actually been that much lower than his typical season from Minnesota. He played 456 games with minnesota, scoring 132 goals and 243 points. That's an average of about 24 goals and 44 points every 82 games. In 94 games with Pittsburgh, Zucker has 23 goals and 47 points. Yeah, I get it, he gets paid more than we'd like and his injury luck has sucked. That definitely lowers his value. But it doesn't lower his value into the negatives.

Other than that, rumor is Malkin was asking for a deal around $6.6 mil, and I don't think Domi is worth $5 mil unless the Pens essentially get into a bidding war over him.</div></div>

It's unfortunate because if Zucker could just stay healthy he would be a decent fit and certainly wouldn't be worth the assets it takes to move him out. Dude just can't stay healthy for the life of him and that liability is going to keep anyone in any potential position of competing from taking on his contract. Seems like a great dude too, just super unhealthy.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 15, 2022 at 9:52 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 5, 2021 at 3:31 p.m.
Thread: ZAR signed
With any luck Carter and Zucker stay healthy while Geno is out and form some chemistry that can remain together for the rest of the reason in a scoring threat 3rd line. Keep Malkin with Kapanen and try every option possible on left wing (I'd say including Jake). I think there's good cases to be made for McGinn, Heinen and Rodriquez to all step into that role depending on whoever performs best. Run Blueger with ZAR and the 4th line shakes itself out.

I think people are a little bit too dramatic about all the necessary changes needed to the roster. If you aren't improving upon Pettersson or Zucker without giving up massive assets then what's the point? They had bad years, they can bounce back. Jarry had a bad year, he can bounce back. Pettersson will likely have a new everyday partner, could make a big difference.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30, 2021 at 10:29 a.m.
Thread: Jake to Edmonton Take Two
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>edeangel84</b></div><div>The people calling for his head were the same ones defending Bylsma. Now we see it again, Sully is great but he was let down by goaltending... nonsense. The guy doesn’t make adjustments. And the forecheck? Huh? The forechecking was on the other side of the ice when they absolutely blitzed our D in our own third of the ice. We had a lot of shots on net and Sorokin saw the vast majority of them because almost none of our forwards like to go to the front of the net</div></div>

I too wish he would have made some adjustments to the forward lines. There wasn't much to be done defensively, so I give him some lee-way there and people saying Legace should have been put in net are out of their minds. Maybe you make a goalie change after the 4th goal game 6, but still the damage was done at that point. Sully needed to get Jake and Rust away from the Pelech/Pulock pairing but he was too hardheaded to take Jake off of Sid's wing and Jake drowned the entire series as a result. Easily his worst showing of his career.

I think it makes sense to bring Sullivan back for another year. This is a team that had no consistency on the blueline all year, a huge question mark in net, and basically an entire new cast of forwards trying to mesh together with constant injuries that finished at the top of the toughest division in the league and I would agree with hockeyfanatic outplayed a very good Isles team in most ways in the first round. Their young goalie stole the show and our young goalie **** the bed. It was optimistic to rely on an unproven young netminder to anchor the last remaining open window of the Crosby/Malkin era but at the same time we just got done watching Murray do it, and so maybe that's what fueled it. Either way this offseason has to be about solidifying the net, having a better option than Legace or DeSmith to turn to in the playoffs if a situation like this happens in the future.