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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 11, 2020 at 5:16 p.m.
Thread: Signing Haula And Granlund
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MitchMarnerElite </b></div><div>What'd you guys think of this team?</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MitchMarnerElite </b></div><div>What'd you guys think of this team?</div></div>

I’m not a fan of bringing Sheary back. I would have rather brought back D.Kahun at 800k.

And the pens aren’t trading C.Sceviour and Matheson b4 each even play a game. Right now, Sceviour is our 4th line RW until ZAR is back and healthy. And if we do make acouple more signings they will bury his contract in the AHL until the deadline when his expiring contract has more value to a team out of contention. Right now we would probably have to give up assets for a team to take him.

ANd Matheson is a reclamation project. Pens are pretty good at turning around young D. We have a good defensive system and if Matheson scores 8-12 goals, 18-25 assists and 26-36 points. Which he is capable of. Especially if the Ceci/Ruthwedel platoon just stays at home and let’s Matheson do all the offensive rushing and all the outlets, all the cross ice passing and the skating the puck through the neutral zone. And They just play solid D and Matheson worries about the offense. And he should get alittle time on the Point on our 2nd PP unit too . Especially if Letang misses any time. If that happens, he will either be selected in the expansion draft or he’s definitely gonna have more value than now, b4 he even plays 1 game in PGH.

I like the Granlund and Haula signing though. I don’t think we can sign both as the roster is now though. I would prefer Granlund over Haula if it was my chose. And Granlund will probably be cheaper too. I
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 26, 2020 at 7:45 p.m.
Thread: Offensive superpower
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DiehardRedWingsFan58</b></div><div>You're better at throwing him an offer sheet and hope he bites, More then Brisebois trading either him or Sergachev. And even then you'd need to offer him in the range of $7 mil per just to pay him similar of $5 mil per in Tampa.</div></div>

I’ve already made offer sheet threads. Doing that again would be very boring and very repetitive. Also you need to read up on offer sheets because Tampa would get less from an offer sheet (just another reason Tampa isn’t going to be able to move the guy for like 5 first round picks or whatever the heck you seem to think he’s worth, pens are already giving Tampa more than an offer sheet would give them)

Tampa bay doesn’t have income tax, correct, but pittsburgh is a far, far, far cheaper place to live and you are seriously overstating the importance of local tax rates in this deal.

Cirelli is not getting 7 million no matter where he goes. Not in a cap league during the pandemic that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve read all day
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 26, 2020 at 7:29 p.m.
Thread: Offensive superpower
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DiehardRedWingsFan58</b></div><div>Yeah well he's not going to take short term deals forever, I can see being cautious with short term deals during the pandemic. But once that's over all bets are off.</div></div>

Okay so why would this be relevant? I could care less if he goes and plays somewhere else after 1 or 2 years. Don’t you get it, man? 1-2 years is all that exists for the pens.

After that, for all we know Geno bugs off to Russia and Letang gets overpaid by some other team and we tank hard.if you really want to go down the “what are the pens gunna do in two years route” then it honestly helps my argument. Letang and Genos contracts run up and we can afford to give Cirelli a massive pay raise should he earn it.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 24, 2020 at 4:41 p.m.
Thread: Get Sid another cup pls
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Penguins21</b></div><div>Not as ignorant as signing him for 4.5M and thinking he can play on the 1st pairing and 1st pairing minutes. And keeping him there all year.</div></div>

lol, we had arguably a worse defenceman in Zaitsev who had 5 years left on his deal (thanks to the GM of the year, Lou), so we traded for Ceci, and he accepted his qualifying offer (which ottawa already offered him), which we basically had no control over

Very different than actively acquiring Ceci with the expection he'd be good. We knew he was gonna suck, and there was nobody who we could've stuck with Rielly that would've been better. Barrie made him worse, Holl worked great with Muzzin.

It was just an unfortunate series of events that we were stuck with because Lou signed Zaitsev to a 4.5Mx7 year deal lmao
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 24, 2020 at 11:49 a.m.
Thread: Get Sid another cup pls
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Lyle_Bubas</b></div><div>I think Ceci will do better in a more sheltered role, with less minutes, but make no mistake, he's not good and it's a good thing if he's platooning. The leafs were stuck with him on the top pair for a year, and it was brutal lol

The only reason his numbers were semi respectable (defensively) this year is because he was playing with Rielly, so idk how he's gonna do with Matheson.</div></div>

He’s not gonna be asked to do anything offensively so I think he will be ok.

It’s just like I said, it’s a bad signing b/c he’s not an upgrade over Ruthwedel. That’s why it’s a bad signing.

And for kappy. Him and Zucker are the 2 best wingers Crosby will have on his wings...ever..lol. If neither of them or just Kappy doesn’t step-up, it’s nothing new. Crosby has carried his own line for years and can do it again.

And any Pens fan(like the one who posted..lol) that doesn’t have Guentzel/Malkin/Rust Line still in tack, they don’t know what they are talking about. Rust scored 27 goals and had 56 points in 55 games last year(a point per game). Guentzel was on pace for a career year b4 he got hurt. And they played together and have had chemistry for 3 years now. The line isn’t gonna break up. And when we put Zucker onto Malkin’s line last year, it was disastrous. Zucker had zero goals and 1 point. And had 6 goals and 11 points on Crosby’s line(his 12 points in 15 games w/ the Pens). Zucker is playing on Crosby’s LW this year.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 23, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.
Thread: I love these trades tbh and we get 3rd center
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jeuck75</b></div><div>I'll let the stats do the talking:

<a href="https://www.nhl.com/player/mike-hoffman-8474884" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nhl.com/player/mike-hoffman-8474884</a>

<a href="https://www.nhl.com/player/jason-zucker-8475722" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nhl.com/player/jason-zucker-8475722</a>

Zucker also played with Crosby making him look better</div></div>

Of Hoffman’s 59 points in 2019-20, 21 were on the powerplay. That’s 36%. Over 1/3. Take away the powerplay where most of his elite shooting comes from and he isn’t much good offensively. If you look at heat maps he literally shoots from the exact same spot every time.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 22, 2020 at 7:13 p.m.
Thread: Pens 2021
Why do people insist on Guentzel on Crosby’s Line?? lol. Guentzel/Malkin/Rust has been a great line. And when the Pens played Zucker on Malkin’s line last year, it didn’t go well at all. And went really well on Crosby’s line. Definitely gonna be Zucker/Crosby/Kapanen and Guentzel/Malkin/Rust(as usual) next year. Crosby has been carrying his own line for years. Nothing new if Zucker or Kappy don’t step-up.

And Tanev is a 4th line energy player(and more comfortable on the LW. Only reason he has that RW on this site is cause he did play alittle RW last year on the 4th line of Tanev/Blueger/Z.A.R.; and both him and Z.A.R. are left-handed shots). 3rd line will be McCann/Janko/Rodrigues to start. 4th line will be Tanev/Blueger/Sceviour. And Z.A.R will be on the LTIR(he coming off off-season surgery. He was out 6-8 months after his surgery. Hockey is supposed to start again in December. He won’t be back till February/March.

Defense is already set: Dumoulin/Letang, Pettersson/Marino, Matheson/Ceci,Ruthwedel platoon.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 7, 2020 at 10:32 a.m.