[Signing] Penguins re-sign Marcus Pettersson

[-Vintage Canuck-]

 

[Rob_Zepp]

1 minute ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

 

[Signing] Penguins re-sign Pettersson

[Monty]

Really young defenseman with good pedigree. Probably good long term for 20-25 points yearly. Corsi% has been above 50% since joining the Pens, as well. It was abysmal on the Ducks. Nice to lock him up at a reasonable salary.

[peaches5]

This could turn into a terrible contract. 

[Monty]

Just now, peaches5 said:

This could turn into a terrible contract. 

Every contract can turn into a bad contract. How bad could a $4M AAV contract for the next 5 years given to a 23 year old really be?

[theo5789]

29 minutes ago, peaches5 said:

This could turn into a terrible contract. 

Every team should not extend beyond ELCs. Careers are done now at age 23.

[coastal.view]

they do appreciate i hope

that he is not related to ep40 ?

this will not get them ep40 to replace crosby

 

[Down by the River]

He's their Tanev. IMO it is a good signing. Prime Tanev got more considering ratio of salary to salary cap.

Edited January 28, 2020 by Down by the River

[J-Dizzle]

1 hour ago, peaches5 said:

This could turn into a terrible contract. 

But you can’t measure it by what it could be....only what it is at the time.  

[PunjabiCanucks]

Just saw the Pettersson and went woah , we resigned him

[JM_]

1 hour ago, Monty said:

Every contract can turn into a bad contract. How bad could a $4M AAV contract for the next 5 years given to a 23 year old really be?

<cough> Hutton <cough> 

[Monty]

1 hour ago, theo5789 said:

Every team should not extend beyond ELCs. Careers are done now at age 23.

[Provost]

I was hoping when we were talking about trades with the Penguins that this guy would be coming our way.  He would have been a really nice steady piece playing on the 2nd pairing behind Hughes on the left side.

It is a decent contract where they are paying him as a 2nd pairing guy, and he is eating up almost 20 minutes a night and has never been a negative +/- in his entire career.  Not the kind of contract you often regret.

[oldnews]

Pitts has to be happy with how that Sprong deal has worked out / it looked pretty good at the time.

 

Pettersson becomes a solid 4/5 D for them.

 

25 pts last year, 15 this year, but as importantly, he's a very good young two way defenseman.

Just under 18 minutes a game last year, and 19:22 this.

 

Underlying numbers in Anaheim perhaps a bit misleading:

61% ozone starts, 46.5% corsi, but nevertheless positive goal metrics there.

And then in a larger sample in Pittsburgh

46.7% ozone starts, 51.7% corsi playing with Gudbranson last year

50.8% ozone starts, 53.2% corsi playing primarily with Schultz this year.

 

A pretty good two way complement to Schultz imo - I think he makes Schultz better - and just slightly less ice-time/game than Johnson = his emergence imo a large part of the reason/need to move/shop one of Gudbranson or Johnson.

 

Hard to argue with this deal - has been very good at ages 21-23 - and a 10th place finisher in the Calder last year.