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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 29, 2023 at 6:58 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 29, 2023 at 6:56 p.m.
Thread: keeping guentzel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TMLBRIAN</b></div><div>Outsider Perspective: I am in the Pittsburgh needs to do a full rebuild camp. Before Dubas arrived in Pits I couldn't see a way where they would be a cup contender going into this year. I thought they should work on getting younger.

Adding Smith for a 3rd. Good move but for the wrong team in my mind. It made them older.
Adding Karlsson. Again wrong team and 10m cap was too much.
Adding Acciari. Good move. Right team. He is older but his cap is low and would help in a complete tear down scenario.
Resigning Jarry Expensive. Good goalie but I thought they should go for a cheap cap tandem.
Adding Graves. I actually liked this signing. Reasonable cap hit, solid #4 dman. Younger guy.
Adding Eller. Didn't love the move based on his age and cap. Not terrible but already adding Acciari, it felt a bit redundant. One or the other. The other guy should have been in his 20s.

I do think the best bet for Pits is to sell Guentzel and to talk with Crosby, Malkin and Letang. See if they want to be moved to a competitor for their final years. Crosby would fit PERFECTLY on Colorado, for example.

They can either do a full rebuild and be competitive in a few years again. Or be mediocre for the next few years with Crosby and Malkin, not collect any assets and be irrelevant for the next 8-10 years.

Those are just my thoughts :)</div></div>

I think you are right. I don't hate what we did this summer, I would've personally rebuilt, but a move like Karlsson was worth a shot imo. But at this point I agree it is time to rebuild. If we don't trade Guentzel at deadline and still miss playoffs then we get into the territory where it becomes very difficult to even start a rebuild.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 21, 2023 at 3:57 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 21, 2023 at 3:19 p.m.
Thread: Big name trades may or may not happen for the prices Im only guessing
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pens1991</b></div><div>Even if they rebuild it's out of the question.

Listen, Rust is a great player but he definitely benefits from playing with Sid.

His contract AAV + Term with his age is not attractive for other teams. You'd have to get a team he's willing to waive for and even at that point the pens wouldn't have a ton of leverage. (Look at the EK Trade situation).

I could see them trading Ek in the 2025-26 season maybe, but I don't see it this year or next.

They will have more cap next summer to try and retool and give it one more go</div></div>

I can't imagine next year they would have an easier time making the playoffs than this year. Even with more cap everyone will be a year older and it will just be tougher. I guess an argument can be made for rebuild vs. retooling again, I think Dubas would rebuild, but neither is a given and both are a possibility. I think the sooner we start it the better. It might be very unlikely, but maybe if we play our cards perfectly we give Crosby one more run at the tail end of the rebuild.

I think if we rebuild it is all going to depend on who with a NMC wants to/dosen't want to be traded. EK deserves to go to a contender if he wants to imo. Same goes for Rust and a lot of others as well. I think it will all depend what they want to do.