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Rental Center Market Continues to Lack Impact Options for Pens, others
The Penguins center trade board entering the February 26th trade deadline is said to be quite long with 4-5 available targets who are available or the Penguins expect to be available.
There’s also another list of 2-3 centers the Penguins have been monitoring for months in the hopes they would become available but likely won’t.
The rentals on the Penguins list for a while now include no surprises:
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Carolina is just one point out of the wild card but have started their annual nose-dive. They haven’t began shopping Ryan yet, per league sources, and would like to resign him, but Ron Francis is always chasing draft picks so we’ll see.
Letestu who the Penguins in early January pushed hard to close a deal for, has seen his play fallen off the cliff. He has no goals in his last 17 games. I doubt we see the Penguins being willing to put a second-rounder in play anymore for Letestu and the sense is Edmonton will only get a third rounder for him.
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The Matt Cullen chatter isn’t going away. He was a healthy scratch again but returned to the lineup Tuesday night in the Wild’s 6-2 win and played 14:18, the fourth highest ice time he’s had this season.
Cullen is 41 years old, so at least in Minnesota the talk coming out of the organization is not to read too much into Cullen being a healthy scratch when he is.
Word is Minnesota, that is for now calling themselves a buyer, prefer to keep Cullen, but if the Wild fall out of the race or add another center, then Minnesota might approach Cullen if he’d like to be traded to Pittsburgh.
Montreal’s Tomas Plekanec is a player the Penguins have been scouting over the last little while but not clear with his $6 million cap hit and diminishing play if they feel he’s an ideal fit yet or not.
Brassard Getting overlooked on Market?
Jean Gabriel-Pageau is another obvious candidate on the Penguins list and a player along with Letestu, Pittsburgh made an offer for last month, though, the two sides are said to have never got close to a deal.
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— One of these three centers the Penguins would love to become available by February 26:
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Sheary will be back before the deadline
Penguins center Conor Sheary injured last week, is back practicing with the Penguins. The Penguins have believed Sheary’s timetable was around 2 weeks. He is in consideration to return this weekend.
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Funny how many times this team needs 4 goals + in order to win for this bum .oh wait it’s never his fault its the defence fault
Fleury does well in Vegas… all Fleury despite the fact all their goalies have been strong. In Pittsburgh we seen 4 goalies have inconsistent seasons… Murray’s fault. You’re a fucken idiot.
Must be nice to have a defenseman that produces on a regular basis.
Nice back check Sid
sam Sucks
Cole with an assist… and a huge block.. fuck Hunwick fix the Cole issue
I like Cole a lot and he’s been playing really well. Not sure how you justifyplaying Hunwick over him.
It’s mind blasting
Hagelin. Woo!
He’s been great for a bit… imagine him and Grabner?
Bullshit call but that’s what I wanna see from Reaves. He got right in there! It’s a West game so he could be big again 😉
Sheahan continues to impress
Agreed. If he can turn into a solid 3c, that gives us a ton of options. If he keeps playing this well for the next two weeks, it opens up a lot of doors.
Kind of what I was thinking. I don’t want Nash at all considering whatThey are asking. It would also put one of our young wingers in a bottom six role where they’re more suited.
Ek has us linked to Vanek. Not a huge fan of him at this stage, but he has a small cap hit and can still score. I could see him doing well with Geno creating space. Wouldn’t give much of anything to get him though.
Hed be a far better option than Rick fucken Nash and would probably cost half the price lol
Sheary seems lost when he is playing wing. He will be more lost if he is a center
If anyone knows what it’s like to feel lost, it would be you.
Lol, A his issue is puck control… positioning is the biggest factor for his success you stupid fucken idiot. B it’s a goddam error, he’s not actually playing centre… you stupid fucken idiot
Letestu sucks
Wilson’s article was interesting. I thought it was kind of funny how the Rangers made a press release telling their fans they are selling. They have some speed the Pens could use.
Blueger recalled
So if somehow now Sheary is a center as Depaoli claims in the last paragraph why are they still looking to ad another.
Obviously I know Sheary isn’t really a center just felt the need to point out the garbage this site puts out and calls content.
Somebody thumbs down this fool already
This is hilarious on many levels… keep on samming you stupid piece of sam