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Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 2:35 a.m.
Thread: Changes for next year to get this team back to contending
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JSEB93</b></div><div>Yeah I think Ned can be a 1B for sure - I think he had a solid season. I just think it's a huge gamble for him to be the pure starter. On paper it's definitely worse overall goaltending - but goaltending is weird and extremely hard to predict. With solid D play he could be perfectly fine as a starter. So I could be totally wrong haha.

I actually think Desmith was fine - pretty good backup. I'd have him and Ned on a similar level. Idk, Jarry was the best goalie available last offseason, which obviously helped his bargaining for a good deal. I don't think it's really a terrible deal, definitely not great, but probably fair. And I'm not sure who they could have signed last offseason that would be any better. If they don't sign Jarry and they get like two 1Bs thats still going to cost around 4mil right? So at best you have 3mil extra for depth signing? I don't think that would've changed the team's position that much. Just my thoughts</div></div>

Well desmith and ned made around 1.5 each with us and desmith is making about 1.8 with the Canucks right now. So its about 3 million if they go for 2 cheap 1b options VS jarry at 5 million with a 1b back up. Essentially 6.5 VS 3. I dont know every little bit helps in my opinion. They overpaid a bit on graves by maybe 1 or 2, carter by maybe 2, eller by maybe 1, acciari by maybe 1. It all adds up. That's like at least 8 million that could've been spent elsewhere on just those contracts for us last year alone. Malkin could be making 4 or 5 at this point in his career as well but he needs better wingers too or just to be moved to Crosby's wing or wing in general.

we need centers for our second and third line that can play a good two way game and can win face offs like giroux, stamkos, stephenson, o'reilly, etc. we also need better d which could result in a 1b like desmith or ned looking even better because good d usually is supposed to translate to an easier life for the goalie, think vegas, winnipeg, canucks, carolina, boston, rangers, or Nashville.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 2:21 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 3:04 p.m.
Thread: Changes for next year to get this team back to contending
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Haymaker26</b></div><div>Ned was great for the first half of that win streak, but I think he looked overworked by the end of it. A lot of those games were won because the Pens scored ~4.1 goals/game for the last 18 games, when their average for the entire season was 3.1 goals/game. But that's not the goalie downgrade I was talking about. Fleury had an .895 SV% and allowed 9.21 goals above expected, according to Evolving-Hockey. That is a couple steps down from both Nedeljkovic and Jarry: By EH's model, that was the 6th worst GSAx in the entire NHL.

And I bring up Seeler and Fleury's NTC and NMC with the context of just being given to them. Like you said, it means they need to allow the trade. I brought them up because I don't think either of them will waive either clause. Both just signed a new deal with their teams, and they're going to approve a trade before playing a single game of it? I doubt it.

On the Marner issue, I think a contract of that size would prevent us from making the best possible depth improvements, which has been the Pens' Achilles Heel since we won our cups. Sure, he's a superstar. But we don't need any more of those. The way our roster is currently constructed, that $11M is better spent on a pair of guys; Skjei and DeBrusk, Monahan and Tarasenko, something along those lines.</div></div>

I definitely agree about the money needing to be spent on depth. The jarry and graves, contracts could've been spent more wisely last offseason and not that Eller or Acciari are overly expensive but 1 million less each makes a difference.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 12:13 a.m.
Thread: Changes for next year to get this team back to contending
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Haymaker26</b></div><div>No, we do not need to acquire a Marner's contract at the cost of downgrading our goaltending and defense. And I imagine Leafs fans want more.
Seeler just signed that contract, and it has an NTC. MAF also has a NMC and doesn't want to move his family.</div></div>

Ned was playing about the same and better when it mattered at the end of the season so not a downgrade when hes made to be number one and Fleury is a future hall of famer who makes great key saves even if he's having a bad statistical game cause he's just a franchise superstar goalie like that.
NMC and NTC doesnt mean someone can't be traded just that they have to accept where they're going and it's not even public information as to who's on their listsbor who they'd verbally agree to go to. Fleury im sure would love to come back to Pittsburgh too. Personally i think the marner contract could be worth it and it could give us a bit of hope once our other future hall of famers retire in a few years from now
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 16 at 10:48 p.m.
Thread: Pens off-season 20
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>0 chance Stephenson is signing that contract.
That 3rd pairing needs replaced. They need guys who are legit defensemen who can PK in their 3rd pairing. It's just not an option.



Neither Eller nor Acciari are 2C.
Malkin does need to move to wing... but not on Crosby's line. That will never work. Nor would Sid be happy with a guy who doesn't play defense. It's spells unneeded conflict and creating an odd situation.
What they really need is a 2C who can win faceoffs. So we don't have to watch Malkin drop the draw and TB go down the ice the other way and score on him. He's never been a good faceoff guy.
If they could find a 2C who could win draws and keep the puck in the Ozone and just let Geno shoot, that would be ideal.</div></div>

I agree our defense needs that too. Never 0 chance of any signing