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Derek Pouliot

To Pitts

Radim Vrbata

Linden Vey

Niklas Jensen

2017 4th

Penguins desperately need scoring and Vrbata would kill it on a line with Crosby or Malkin. Vey and Jensen are young and can both slot in right away and would also fare much better in the East. We don't have much room in our lineup for either young forward and have much better forward prospects.

We get that potential top pairing, pp qb that we need. He's not proven yet and had an injury last season so his value shouldn't be too high.... but he would be far and away our best defense prospect.

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Eventually quantity will acquire quality, but where is the line drawn?

Vey can still be a top 6 center and Jensen can still be a middle 6 scorer. The chances of that happening are much higher if they're in the east.

Pittsburgh's forwards are pretty much all plugs besides Crosby,Malkin,Hornquist and Sutter.

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Pouliot is as good as untouchable now. The Penguins have let all their UFA defencemen go, they're relying on their young kids to step up on defence. We'd have to essentially give away Hamhuis + defensive prospects to get Pouliot and we don't have that.

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Pouliot is as good as untouchable now. The Penguins have let all their UFA defencemen go, they're relying on their young kids to step up on defence. We'd have to essentially give away Hamhuis + defensive prospects to get Pouliot and we don't have that.

Agreed. I think we highly underrate how valuable Pouliot is for Pitt. He is basically their best prospect now that Matta is a genuine roster player.

Also, if Jensen's value is that low for us right now with everyone including our GM excluding him from future plans ... Why do people keep thinking other teams will give up top prospects for him.

That's like us taking Kunitz for Virtanen.

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