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The Matt Cullen situation is not expected to drag on much longer (decision could come Tuesday) and the holdup on where to sign hasn’t been about Cullen waiting for the Penguins to clear cap space, (something they’ve decided against) Inside Pittsburgh Sports has learned.
The Penguins on Friday believed Cullen was headed [hide] to Minnesota and so did Cullen, per a source close to the situation, but the Wild informed the Cullen camp late Friday they needed a few days to mull over their cap situation over before moving forward on a possible deal.
Cullen’s first choice is to return to Minnesota and end his career in his home state something that’s been made clear to the Wild.
Minnesota clearly drives the bus right now on whether Cullen returns to Pittsburgh or goes elsewhere for the money.
Pittsburgh has an offer that remains on the table to Cullen for around $1.2 million and the door has been pretty much closed to moving salary to accommodate a bigger offer to Cullen.
Cullen drew serious interest from four teams on July 1 and another attractive situation is also said to be in play if Minnesota decides to go in another direction.
The Cullen camp has been shooting for a significant raise, eyeing in the neighborhood of $3 million per season, though, if something gets done with Minnesota, I won’t be surprised if it’s around $2 million per season.
More Buzz
— Following some conversations with Nick Bonino’s agent Peter Fish at the draft, the Penguins are now of the mindset an extension for Bonino before next July is going to cost at least $5 million per season. No extension talks are now planned this month.
— Eric Fehr’s name was out there a lot last week and prior to July 1, league sources say the St. Louis targeted Fehr in a trade bolster their bottom-6 depth with Ty Rattie discussed as coming the other way. Sources say St. Louis was rebuffed by the Penguins and the deal is now dead. Some teams out West really like Fehr.
— Buffalo Sabres GM Tim Murray expressed his displeasure on Friday of a UFA goaltender reneging on a verbal agreement to sign with Buffalo. Who was it?
The Jeff Zatkoff camp denies it was Zatkoff but a Sabres source says Zatkoff informed head coach Dan Bylsma he would be signing with the Sabres. Zatkoff signed a 2 year, $1.8 million contract with the Kings.[/hide]
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Matt Cullen was an upgrade over
Craig Adams, don’t ya say?
Radulov sign yet?
I am hearing Montreal, that way if he fucks up again there will only be about 100 people upset that they cant see him play live
This better not be another Shane Doan waiting game they’ll play where it takes weeks.
I just kinda sorta ran the numbers – Pens have about $3.5 million in available cap space, assuming 22 rostered players. That number is more realistically $2.5 million if they want to leave that $1 million buffer, which I’d presume they do.
How yoda sees himself
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How we all see him
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Sam, your piece of shit video broke the layout on mobile.
Blame Joey
nothing like a 5.75 backup goaltender eating your cap space. all hail st.bleury!
You need to get laid… by a another human being, probably worse than I have ever seen on the net.
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Sam would find a video of a dude named Nathen
Has everyone noticed sams OBSESSION with hot dogs?….I mean if he wants to be obsessed with a phallical object, that is his choice and we all should support it…way to go sammy burning bridges for the entire gay community bravo…
So basically he’s an embarrassment to his nationality and an embarrassment to his sexual oreintation, if anyone was going to be the perfect embarrassment it would be him or Yoda.
Fehr for Rattie was rebuffed? damn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAqBF1ukRss
Npl you must be proud of your Hero yesterday
I want to throw up just by watching them stupid Americans with Stupid Contest
Best part is the commentator said that this is a sport
Would thr jewish hotdog eating contest be hosted by hebrew national?
I think Npl was undet the table holding chestnut Nutz
So bad at this.
So it’s ok for Canadian’s to have crazy eating challenges but when American’s do it it’s disgusting?
eatfeats.com/calendar/Canada.html
Or if you prefer to just stay in Montreal
eatfeats.com/calendar/Montreal.html
The nausea might have something to do with Radulov being your new God.
Anyone want to bet Same’s willingly tuned into watch this?
Is Radulov on the market? How much would he cost? Any other teams interested?
70 Hot dogs
Sold! Alex Radulov and 70 hot dogs… gonna be a fun year for you. Plus there are so few people in the stands in montreal think of all the room you will have for your fat ass and its dinner
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If they can muster up 1.2M– offer it to Hudler, Versteeg, or Gagner. More upside.
Not sure 1.2M is going to get a player like Hudler or Versteeg, Gagner maybe but the other 2 should command more than 1.2M.
I refuse to get to bent out of shape over a 40 year old 4th line guy. Great year but the chances of him repeating that are slim to none.
They have more pressing needs than a 4th line center (which can be filled internally), like a LW (hopefully Vesey is up their sleeve) to filling out their D.
I’m not sure that I agree with the pressing need assessment, they really don’t have any needs at all right now, there are some areas they can upgrade if the right player/deal is out there but I find it hard to see any true needs at this point, I mean that exact roster was the best team in the league just a few weeks ago.
Making sure they go into the season with a capable top 6 blueline is something I would state as a “pressing need”. Pouliot is still a huge?
Radulov waiting on Sam before signing in Montreal.
Damn Wilds. I guess we can add him to the lineup if needed in February for a draft pick.
No more wasted draft pick trades; create cap space and sign FAs now or bring up WB talent.