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The Pittsburgh Penguins today signed defenseman Matt Hunwick to a 3 year, $6.75 million contract and goaltender Antti Niemi to a 1 year, $700,000 contract.
The Penguins accomplished their goal of adding a depth defenseman in Hunwick who was one of their top targets and adding Niemi, a deal that has been in place since Thursday afternoon.
But, reports Friday of the Penguins having an imminent trade for a center did not come to fruition.
“I’m not surprised that we didn’t get anything done today,” Rutherford said today during a media session.
The Penguins lost Nick Bonino who agreed to a four year contract with the Nashville Predators. Pittsburgh was only willing to go three years for Bonino and that ship sailed a few days ago.
Identifying Bonino as their long-term replacement to Mike Fisher, Nashville emerged as a leading contender for Bonino from the get-go during the interview period and Bonino left term on the table to sign their, declining a five year offer from the Canadiens and had another five year on the table, per a source.
What the Penguins didn’t do was try to dip their toes in the free agent market for an impact center, even though Martin Hanzal and Brian Boyle didn’t go for much term.
Martin Hanzal went to Dallas on a 3 year deal with an AAV of $4.75 million.
Brian Boyle went to New Jersey for 2 years with an AAV of $2.55 million.
Dominic Moore a steady 4th line center, signed with the Maple Leafs for $1 million over 1 year.
“I think it’s important now we don’t panic and just go after somebody to just say we got a center,” said Rutherford. “I talked to the coach about this, he says as long as I got my two big guys healthy, To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
Anybody else think 30-40 games is a little high for Niemi?
Once you factor in how often Murray is hurt, what are you options?
How hard is Kingpuck with the signing of Tinordi to WBS? That jerkoff has been talking him up for years.
Reclamation project but his ship may have sailed in becoming an impact player in the NHL
Yeah I agree. He was Maatta’s partner in juniors.
Probably still wondering what hit him after the Kulikov signing and Colborne trade fell through….
I’m still waiting on the Dustin Jeffrey trade to the Stars he talked about for months. That guy has never been right.
Sam’s mom preaches patience to the dudes during her gangbang sessions.
Sam owes shatinkirk money
Rangers GM shatinkirk left money on the table to join team .typical American media typical American hoopla. That fraud is already overpaid. How much more did he leave on the table.? Got to love being American. Good for one thing stealing paychecks frauding. The system
Shatinkirk isn’t the Rangers GM. Let’s start there. #Frauding
Rangers GM Shatinkirk seems like a guy who knows the worth you money.
Rangers GM Shattenkirk. The system
And those are the 3 jabronis that only reply to people’s comments and bring nothing but arrogance to this board.
You bring stupidity, racism and homophobia.
TK2.0 i mean Sheary traded yet?
They moved him for Colborne. Right King?
Your dominos are out of order. They are signing Kulikov first.
Now that kunitz gone can’t wait to see how miserable malkin and chubby will look like in the playoffs.
If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that Malkin was nothing without Chris Kunitz
I don’t even know how to respond to this. He had to have taken some beatings by a frying pan for complaining about more sausages growing up.
Maybe they can come on here and brag about saving money on an unnecessary feature in their mom’s car. That might make them feel better about their miserable life. #GottaKnowTheWorthYouMoney
Npl
Emelin to preds
That was on hockeybuzz a half hour ago. A lot of good the sirus subscription is doing you. Malkin back in Russia yet?
Franson sign with Toronto yet?
Schultz 3 years 5.5 per. Remember same said he sucked?
Dude he is another version of shattenkirk. Horrible in defense gets paid for offense side. Now go back to bed fatso
Is this what they are saying on your mom’s Sirus subscription? We got him for a third rounder and he was our best defenseman last year. Keep trying though, virginal bandwagon man.
Go back to your hibernation hole and come back in April you Fat drunk bandwagon fan
How is your game of soggy waffles going with the 3 guys your mom brought home and brooks Orpik?
Another instance of sam having no idea what he’s watching
Except Schultz was awesome and scored some huge goals and was very visible and won…. exact same thing otherwise… idiot
My Sirus XM radio was due I called them said give me a good deal before I cancel. Instead of 123$ for 6 months they offered me at 47 $. Got to know the worth your money sometimes stain specially when you pay your own shitt and not get tax payers money to pay your memberships like you do it on this site you Fat donut boy
I agree, got to know the worth you money
Drop dead assholee it’s because of scum bags like you and stain people stop coming to this site. You clowns turned this site into a circus with none sense after nonsense haven’t you notices 99.9% of your and stains comments are replies to other people’s comments. You clowns bring nothing to this site other then negativity and thumbs downing people. Last year pokemon Go kept u busy in the summer why don’t you go disappear this summer too netflix came out with thumbs down /up concept too why don’t you waste by our time there. Oh wait your broke asss… Read more »
What can I do to get you to stop coming on this site?
Or more importantly, an 8×10 of db
Dude I’ll double the amount of the money of the subscription just leave and don’t come back
Your mom must have a good job for you to throw her money around like that.
You already pay for 2 subscriptions.
Drop dead assholeeeeee
Maybe your mom can afford birth control this time with those savings. Well done.
I guess your mom did a horrible job saving money for her birth control pills. Having you here is enough said
Sam. Don’t take my jokes, remove the subtlety and nuance, and the regurgitate it like you have to spell it out for everyone, please. Come up with something original.
Fucken proof read you asshole, your posts cause cancer
I love how BoxScore races to spit out the latest signings as if nobody ventures outside the TIOPS site for news.
It was for cBauer. He couldn’t figure out who signed Niemi earlier.
Well lets take a quick poll who would you trust more? TSN or TIOPS? I think TSN has more assets to cover things but they screwed up. And i cant hang on all day on sites has unlike some I have a real life.
Pool? Like a swimming pool?
Auto correct lil Yoda get over it.
If youre strapped for time, just visit TIOPS 3 hours later and Sam will have it covered.
He’s not. Says he doesn’t have time to sit on here all day. He’s been on here. All. Day.
Haha
Stain gets his news from 5th period. Like he did yesterday. Calgary shipped lack and Murphy to CALGARY
Good one sam. You and Bauer would have intelligent kids if you procreated.
Yeah TSN a great Canadian hockey source
American hockey source = Fake news just like the rest of their news channels
You said the Pens posted it on their FB page and you were still questioning if he was on the team.
Can’t wait to get my Hunwick jersey
Dude is your wife getting you a Hunwick jersey?!??
In GMJR we trust stan the Yoda II.
“In the next 48 hours”….
30 mins later
3 years 5.5 AAV
TSN just said Shattenkirk to Rangers
Must say for the first day of free agency Npl and stain did a great job spamming this site with their nonsense
We didn’t do the amazing job you did, breaking news 3 hours after it had happened.
Now they may both focus for another event that will occur in 2 days 2hours and in 27 min
Your moms “gangbang events” ?
No you Fat fuckk your idols Joey Chestnut contest.
Well im in a pickle now! I already RSVP’d to your moms gang bang event
Holy fucken irony batman… what did TK2.0 say about it? Fucken retard
“Should be able to” and “expects” have different meanings
Kunitz to Tampa – 1 year deal
Frustrated me as he got older, but i’ll miss the guy. Great attitude, fit well up and down the lineup, gave it his all whenever on the ice and never complained. Good luck to him.
And this is where pens will miss him in the playoffs.
The rare Canadian who turns it on in the postseason
Good thing he didn’t go to Montreal then. He’d have been wasted there.
The picture on the front page that cuts off 3/4 of GMJR’s face looks just awesome.