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Forum: Pittsburgh PenguinsJul. 3, 2017 at 2:23 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ess</b></div><div><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Daoloth</b></div><div>I think Penguins got all they could out of Fleury, Daley, Kunitz, other guys they lost... Getting a former cup winner in Niemi real dirt cheap is pretty good while keeping Schultz. Their signings might not be flashy, though they were missing players last year form injury. Even Bonino I think was hurt in Final, maybe Letang can come back which would be a major upgrade. I still think there is time for them to make more moves, maybe they end up with Ilya :). There a few forwards still unsigned like STafford, HEmsky, Doan, Winnik, PA Parenteau, Marleau, VAnek, Pirri, MIchalek, Grigorenko, Chaiasson, Smith Pelly so I'd not freak out too much yet. Always a few stray players signed from KHL, unless they make a run for Radulov or some others.</div></div>

I'd hate for them to get Ilya Kovalchuk. They seriously don't need anymore wingers, so unless they sign a guy and trade him for assets they do need, I'd rather they just keep the cap space for trades. 87/71 are scoring plenty with the players we have. The don't need a $6m+ money sink to do what Guentzel and Sheary are doing. Hornqvist and Kessel both seen time on the 2nd and 3rd line, because scoring across all lines is that important ... or they can do like WSH and stack one or two lines and lose in the playoffs because they live or die by those lines.

Grigorenko is the only thing I see worth the Pens signing at this point, and that's only if the price is under $1m, and only because he can play Center or Wing, or waived or sent down, if/when a better Center comes available. Most of the guys you mention couldn't keep up with their old teams let alone the Pens. At least Grigorenko put up career highs in goals and FO% before COL surprise a lot of people by not giving him a qualifying offer.</div></div>

I think could get him pretty cheap or some incentive contract... He was supposed to be a good player, showed some flashes... Maybe playing on a team like Penguins where he wont have the pressure to be the guy or perform will help. Saad I think had issues with CBJ having to be the main dude, so going to Chicago I think will help him rebound. Be glad didn't give Jumbo Joe 8M for 1 year or the contract Marleau had. Penguins could just go into season then make a deal around deadline it worked out well when they got Schultz for example. So having the free cap space might be a better idea than trying to force everything now. Figure any season they don't win the Cup isn't going to be good enough so the bar is set pretty high. I think they are in better shape having a lot less money locked up in the goalie position. Locking up Schultz saves them trouble trying to find a right shot D-man to replace him which would have been real tough considering only Franson/Wideman are left for the named players there.

Capitals look like they had to shed some players for the contracts they just handed out. I don't think they will be that good this year, wouldn't shock me if they missed the Playoffs to be frank. Teams in East got better, think their window slammed shut for making a Cup run. At least Crosby took a cap hit that allowed his team to compete unlike some less talented players like Kopitar who wanted to break the bank. Stamkos is another guy with a fair salary, I think Tampa will be the team from the East to beat out or maybe Montreal. Really would be tough for a team to make Cup final 3 years in a row in the salary cap age anyways. My biggest worry would be if Murray gets hurt having to rely on Niemi to play 30-40 games. Nothing against him, I don't think they would have done as well with even Fleury in there over Murray last 2 runs. Though others played their role pretty well when Murray didn't play or was hurt.

I think Colorado might be tanking trying to get a 1st overall or are in full rebuild mode shedding anything they can for assets. Either way that trade didn't work out for them so they cut their loses with Grig.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 27, 2017 at 1:36 a.m.