The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired center Riley Sheahan and a 2018 fifth round pick from the Detroit Red Wings in-exchange for winger Scott Wilson and a 2018 third round pick.
Sheahan, 25, carries a $2.075 million cap hit.
Sheahan has 0 points in eight games this season with just 5 shots on goal. He’s a big bodied center at 6-foot-3, 215 pounds with good defensive instincts but struggles to create his own offense.
The 25 year old forward had 2 goals and 13 points in 80 games last season. He is a minus-29 over his last 88 regular season with just 2 goals during that span to show for. In his career Sheahan has 38 goals and 98 points in 292 games.
Pittsburgh had gone back and forth for months on whether to push forward on a deal for Sheahan and two sides revived talks yesterday with the Red Wings resigning Andreas Athansious.
The Red Wings had sought Tom Kuhnhackl initially in talks but Pittsburgh was not interested in making Kuhnhackl available in a deal for Sheahan, per sources.
Wilson, 25, had 8 goals and 26 points last season and was valuable in the postseason due to his versatility to play up and down the lineup. Wilson had high 5 v 5/60 production in 2016-2017 but had fallen out of the Penguins regular lineup this season with the coaches valuing Kuhnhackl’s penalty kill ability and management wanting Ryan Reaves in the lineup every night.
For Detroit, they do well in moving a 4th line center they’ve been trying to move for months due to cap reasons in getting a third rounder for Sheahan and adding a useful player in Wilson who has a $1.5 million lesser cap hit than Sheahan.
Wilson’s downfall in Pittsburgh is that he’s not a center and he also didn’t meet management’s expectations as the Penguins during the 15-16 season believed Wilson had 20+ goal ability and would be that type of winger by now.
What the Penguins essentially did was trade an 11th-13th caliber type forward in Wilson for another 11th-13th NHL caliber forward in Sheahan who unlike Wilson can play center.
Pittsburgh is now banking on that the change of scenery can get Sheahan back to the offensive level from 2014-2014 where he had a career-high 36 point season.
Why has there been such a decline in Sheahan’s offensive play?
The speed game throughout the league doesn’t fit his style of play for one.
The buzz among scouts on Sheahan is the NHL evolving into a more skill and speed game the last couple seasons has not seen Sheahan To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
Tocchet 0-7-1….decent
Hey DePaoli, did the Cavs win?
Hey sammich.. Max Pac for Nuge? What say you? You like the idea of changing up your 30 goal US born winger for another smallish top 6 centre, from Canada?
Niemi just let in another goal
Your mom just let in another one in her hole
Which hole?
I bet sam was weezing from exhaustion after he typed this.
No more videos moron!!!
He can’t afford, or manufacture the mental capacity to work a smart phone. Therefore, he doesn’t understand why you would say this.
talking about poutines i think your idol joey chestnut was in it you fat slob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v6z7ccSBPk
Lol youre looking up videos of people eating poutine. Thats next level fat.
Pretty sure if sam cut himself, he’d bleed gravy
I don’t get what you’re going for here… Quebec’s own Poutine is somehow a slight against others? You’re so fucken dumb
this was yesterday
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/watch-senators-fan-clocks-leafs-fan-stands-scrap-034248896.html
while you hot dog eating fans sleep at the museum
How was the World Poutine Eating Championship in Canada last week?
When will you compete for the annual hot dog eating contest. Waiting your idol retires first? Joey chestnut
Here goes Sam again, with all his “meaningful posts”
D… any truth to the rumors that the Penguins have been negotiating with Zaripov all weekend? Any Niemi replacement rumors?
Apparently that’s happening. But D has zero inside knowledge so he can’t answer.
Why the fuckk Hilary Clinton is coming to Montreal tomorrow. We don’t have a lot of wannabe Americans here
Looking for votes?
She should go to Edmonton maybe she might get vote from zeroTool
Quebec joining Denmark, Australia and Austria banning the burka from these Arabs covering head to toe like a ninja and you have Alberta bitchingg about it. Well have them in your province and see how fast you’ll change your minds wannabe Americans
Maybe theyre embarrassed to be seen in Quebec. I would be.
If I were you I’d be embarrassed to be seen in public period
Zing.
Indeed. Probably don’t want passers by thinking they don’t shower or use deodorant.
Because Canada has suffered such incredible attacks from these people as a whole? I think we should ID and background check everyone… sorry… caucasians leaving churches as they tend to do the most damage in this country… retard.
Edmontonians on average… minus the assholes from Quebec… know we can’t vote in US elections
Sam hates goals because his mom scores 24/7, yet he is the virginal bandwagon.
I’m the only dude in Pittsburgh wearing a William Gay jersey.
Charlie Morton killed it last night….damn
I bet that fat slob npl left the game after the 1st period while stain turned off his TV long time ago. #90sPens
He barely got to see Sid play then. He was probably still pouting then.
It’s funny how he uses #90sPens as an insult. The pens won 2 Stanley cups and had two of the best players to ever live in the 90s. Then again, he wouldn’t know much about anything prior to 2005.
Yeah two of the best. They scored big portion of the teams goals or be involved you take them out and team would lose more. Every game was high scoring games with 0 defensive mind set that’s why when Mario was playing team only won 2 cups and not more. Because they were not able to play low scoring games. You wouldn’t know that because you only started watching hockey since 09
It’d be nice if you just quit talking about things where you have limited knowledge. Aka delete your account.
Hahaha trust me if you left here,the site would be in peace. What is your purpose coming here very day. Hah It’s easy pisss people off with replies and thumbs downing people
But then you wouldn’t learn anything.
Nobody learns anything from you chubby
Some do. But others have the capacity to follow along. You have the capacity to binge eat poutine whilst smelling awful.
Funny, while I was gone to typed more than you had all year. Me coming back, adding to the handful that prove you wrong daily but, being willing to take an extra 5 seconds to do it with statistical analysis between load screens from work you suddenly get quiter. I’m happy to be back to help the page get pack to “relevant posts”
Accounts*
I’m pretty sure “they only won two cups” because it’s hard to do. You know who did play low scoring games? The Canadiens and since 1990 have only one cup lol
So Kevin Stevens (50+ goals), Paul Coffey (100+ points) Larry Murphy, Joe Mullen, Rick Tocchet and countless other guys didn’t contribute? Those two guys are the only ones you’ve heard of, so that’s the reason for your nonsensical point. You really are a moron.
Who was behind their points most of the time
Everyone on a team doesn’t put up the same amount of points you idiot. There are better players on every team. Christ, you’re a fucking moron. I guess being that your team is Montreal, who is scoring all the points isn’t an issue when no one is.
Guy was absent all game lol… guess who didn’t watch lol
Kingerski says pens not done adding to the roster this weekend. And it’s not a backup goalie.
This AM both Cam Ward and Zaripov are being connected to Pittsburgh
I’m scared to see what we are looking to give up for cam ward to fit that contract under the cap.
3.4 million… gotta make some moves for sure … 2.6 minus Niemi
Neimi sucks……..One of the few bad moves JR has made in the last two years…
Yoda! Yoda! Yoda! Yoda!
Montreal could use a D man like Sergachev
Pens are playong amazingly. Just no puck luck
Haha!
Niemi needs to retire
“The penguins are down by a field goal”
I don’t think everybody knows that most people here turned their TV off since the first period
Says the guy that didn’t say shit until an hour after the game ended. Unless you can only run one device at a time lol
Stanch, let’s meet up tonight. You in town ?
2nd house. Though I did get to go to the pitt/duke game today.
Ok. Next time.
Pens trade a top six winger for a 4th liner. # Gaydogg
Which sucks more: That 1st period, this trade, or Sam?
You at the game?
Yes, unfortunately. But im not leaving like a Canadiens “fan”
Are you wearing your Pouliot jersey?
Wilson became expendable, Sprong is ready… Rowney will play wing about as well and he 3C was needed. Sheahan comes with ?s but a lot of potential to fill that role if the Pens can get him to get back to his old self from a couple years back. They did it without making the D weaker too
Sammich. Why do you refuse to call sid out for his penalties? I thought that was your thing
Horrible selfish as fuck penalty there. All sammich aside I love Sid but that’s unacceptable this early in a game that shouldn’t have that kind of emotion in it yet!