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  1. Good point. I tend to agree with this. To me, the more interesting question is what do you do if the offer is NJ #1 next year unprotected for Miller + ?
  2. With their young depth down the middle I could easily see NJ taking Slavkovsky. He'd compliment their center talent and could play immediately.
  3. There aren't a lot of guarantees in the NHL, but one thing is for certain, either Wright or Slapshotsky will be available at #2. Then you take a d-man at #15.
  4. The stats I looked at indicate he averaged less than a minute (55 seconds) SHTOI. https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/teams/minnesota-wild-forwards-2021-22-nhl-stats.html 7 other forwards on the Wild averaged more SHTOI than Fiala. So yeah, maybe he was on the PK, but those stats tell me that the only time he was actually on the ice was when there may have been an offensive end f/o and/or if the penalty was expiring and he was left out to stay on the ice when they got to 5v5. If those stats are correct, he was not on either the first or the second PK unit.
  5. Maybe I'm in the minority but I see Fiala as a one-dimensional 'perimeter' player who doesn't even know the meaning of 'going to the hard areas'. He's the type who starts sh*% on the ice and lets his teammates deal with it. Not the kind of guy you win with in the PO. If it was between a player like Fiala or JT, to bolster your team on the rise to be a contender, I know who I'd be after and it wouldn't be Fiala.
  6. The 2nd and the cap-space that's freed up might just be what we have to settle for if gets to that. It'd still be better than when we let Tanev, Marky, Toffy walk for free.
  7. This organization needs young d and centermen. If one of these guys is available that'd be ideal: Korchinski Geekie Nazar Pickering
  8. None of these are terrible, but none are quite what I'd be looking at. Someone wants a premier power forward in his prime on a hugely discounted deal (would even retain for his last year if necessary) then they'd better be prepared to pay for it. Van - Miller + Rathbone to LA - Clarke + Turcotte LA has no room for all of their young RHD and needs the exact skill-set that Miller brings - they can afford to re-sign him too so he wouldn't necessarily be a rental. Not to mention, LA is trending up and should be for several more years - Miller could easily be enticed to sign there long-term.
  9. Miller to LA for Clarke & 2nd. Gets us our RHD and the missing pick we need.
  10. Miller wt 50% retained allows Sakic to both upgrade from Kadrina at a fraction of the cost AND keep virtually the rest of the team together if he gets creative enough. If you're Sakic and this one deal allows you to bring back a SCF team, that's got to be enticing, very enticing.
  11. I always thought the issue was our worthless, useless local media making sh#$ up.
  12. Toffoli lit us up after he walked, and that didn't bother me really. If it meant we got the right piece(s) back I'm sure we'd all live with it.
  13. Exactly why we sell high right now and target team needs.
  14. In my view we need to look for the player(s) who isn't a regular in a lineup yet but most certainly will be in 1 or 2 years. My target would be LA and Clarke.
  15. If he's already a top 3 dman as you mentioned, then presumably he'll need to be paid as such when he comes off elc, no?
  16. Is he really 'cost controlled' if he's in his last year of an ELC next season though? It's not like he's signed for the next 5 years at a fixed number. And nobody can argue there aren't at least 'some' concerns over long-term health. I'm not saying stay away, quite the opposite, explore this option, but with all scenarios in mind.
  17. Sakic would need to add to that. At 50% retained he'd be getting a proven elite power forward in his prime for the price of a 3rd line checking forward. I'm high on Byram, but we'd need other pieces if for nothing else than insurance.
  18. That's a lot of experienced voices 'in the room' so to speak.
  19. As someone who's worked closely with a colleague for the past 10 years who's a die-hard Pens fan, I seem to know more than I should about their recent management history. So when it was made official that JR was on board with the Canucks I raised the same issue in my post that you quoted, with the exact same article questioning some of JR's earlier managment decisions, and although I wasn't 'blasted' as you say, nobody seemed to be bothered the least bit by his history - I guess coming from organizations where he won 3 cups to an organization with a 'less than stellar' management/coaching record lately will do that. I do have to say, that so far JR and his team have said all the right things and made all the right peripheral moves, but the 'real' decisions, the ones that will have the most impact, are coming up soon, real soon.
  20. Does it worry anyone else that JR was responsible for acquiring Kapanen not once, but twice during his tenure with the Pens? Not that I expect him to go after this player again, but if he's as 'useless' as some believe, why would JR go out of his way to acquire him on two separate occasions and what does this mean for his ability to evaluate players? This article also highlights some questionable decisions by JR, and I understand that every GM has some decisions they likely regret but it seems like some people here think he's beyond reproach when in fact many people out there wonder what the state of the Pens would've been like if they weren't gifted 87/71? https://thehockeywriters.com/penguins-rutherford-poor-decision-making-effects/
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