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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 13, 2022 at 8:14 p.m.
Thread: the trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Haymaker26</b></div><div>No, it is not.
Let's assume for the sake of the argument that the Penguins would be willing to sell Sid.
By the looks of the Bruins, both of those firsts would be pretty late with or without Crosby. That's a pretty solid start, but this is where most of the value is as far as I care.
Carlo is a solid middle pairing D and DeBrusk has been unironically great, but they're mostly here to make the cap hit work. If the Pens were *selling Crosby*, they'd be tanking. Hard. Regardless they, DeBrusk especially, have some value. But this is Sidney Crosby we're talking about, one of the greatest players of all time.
Kyle Keyser is a goalie prospect, which the Pens don't need. They have Filip Lindberg ahead of him on the depth chart, with Joel Blomqvist and Tommy Guathier not too far behind, if they even would be behind.
Ryan Mast was drafted in the 6th round and is ~0.5 ppg in the OHL right now. That's not going to add any significant amount of value.

Considering other high profile trades like Erik Karlsson and Matt Duchene, this trade isn't exciting for Pens fans. It's 2 roster players, albeit good ones, 2 probably very late 1sts, and a couple random lesser picks/prospects. The value is good, but not great, and we're talking about the trade of the greatest player of a generation. I think this trade is ~ a blue chip prospect away from getting done.
The 2 Duchene trades included 1. A 1st, and 2 great prospects, and 2. 2 firsts.
The Karlsson Trade included 1 first and conditions for more that didn't get met, and a great prospect.
We can even go back into the dark ages of the 80s and 90s to the Lindros and Gretzky deals, but I've rambled enough. You want Crosby, It'll be a literal kings ransom. There's a lot of value here, but this isn't a king's ransom.</div></div>

probably the best response i have ever heard since been on this site ,and would agree only to the fact that a top prospect in addition would make this trade work .not sure any other team would fit.crosby would waive for this i think
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 25, 2022 at 6:07 p.m.