Penguins/NHL
If Jim Rutherford believed Riley Sheahan was the Penguins clear answer as their third line center, he wouldn’t have been so active over the last two months in looking for an upgrade at the position nor being so public in that the Penguins needed a third line center.
Sheahan’s surge in play over the last couple weeks has now brought a narrative that the Penguins shouldn’t be trying to acquire a third line center.
If you have believed as Penguin management has that Pittsburgh has needed to upgrade the third line center position for 2-3 months, should they let a 2-3 week strong stretch from Sheahan change that stance?
Jim Rutherford has been around long enough where I don’t believe he’s going to call General Manager’s this week and suddenly take the team out of the mix for a bottom-6 center.
What Sheahan’s improved play, though, has done is make the Penguins much less desperate to overpay for a fringe 3rd line center/4th line center type player (Mark Letestu, Matt Cullen, David Desharnais, Tomas Plekanec) but I wouldn’t look for the Penguins to move on from their small group of third line center targets they’ve been in trade talks for leading up the deadline like O[hide]ttawa’s Derick Brassard where talks have heated up a bit with the Penguins.
The wish list hasn’t changed in trying to add an impact third line center that would bump Sheahan to 4th line center duty which would be a pretty good problem to have, especially if Sheahan’s level of play is sustainable.
Senators talking to teams about Derick Brassard; price is believed to be a 1st RD pick, top prospect plus 3rd piece. Brassard has another year left on his deal next season at $5 M aav although it’s $3.5 M in real cash
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) February 12, 2018
— As mentioned here in the past, the Penguins have known the Senators asking price on Derick Brassard for quite a while.
What has changed recently is the Senators have started to be much more aggressive in entertaining the possibility of trading him.
Teams rarely get their asking price for non-star players, but the Senators have been pretty adamant with clubs they won’t move Brassard without receiving a first rounder. Ottawa willing to take on some of the cap hit is what they believe warrants their current asking price, per a source. [/hide]
— The Penguins have been heavily scouting the Sabres over the last little while. Most will obviously try to connect that to Evander Kane…..
I’m hearing otherwise.
The Penguins have not crossed Kane off their trade board after failed trade talks in early January, but as one source close to the situation says — To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”! and Pittsburgh’s scouting focus has been To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
Letang suckks. Yet he is only missing 4 more assists to pass Coffey in all time assists with the pens for a D-man
He was with the Pens for less than 5 years, dumba$$.
Haha
Great another game pens needed 4 goals to win for Murray
You know youre a fat Canadian when you spell it “Vladimir Poutine.”
Hey… PQ isn’t the majority population and the rest of us spell it Putin! Don’t blame us for PQs uber fattenting only export anyone gives a fuck about now 😉
Wow… Murray with the big save on one end then Vladi Put… Geno Malkin with an amazing goal. The Sammich hates all the play
12 mins no shot on goal
Shut up chubster
That’s what happens when Shultz is out there instead of Letang. The less French Canadians the better. All coming off a penalty thatKessel drew. Remember chubster called Shultzand Kessel frauds? What a clown.
Fuckk you sam
Yeah fuckk you Sam.
And change your Vladimir poutine picture you disgraceful fat slob
But you love Putin… what you two have in common is extraordinary
Looks like chubster activated both of his accounts.
It’s amazing that he still pretends we don’t know. It’s hilarious… no sorry… I mean pathetic
I’m hearing otherwise…DePaoli. He kills me when he thinks he has inside sources.
Someone did the home work for me… Sheahan has been better than Bones in every single important stat from last season. Maybe the 3C is filled, Sheahan started slow and while he’s been very good as of late we can’t ignore that he’s been mostly decent for a lot longer than a few weeks. Former first rounder picked up to be a solid two way guy… was dying in Detroit and suddenly finding his game as a Penguin, never heard that one before lol
Agreed. I’d be fine with Sheahan as a 3c and as you mentioned, put kessel on his line.
Hags-Geno-Horny
Guentzel-Sheahan-Thrill
Get a top flight winger to put with Sid leaving open the possibility of moving guys around. You have Rust and Sheary to plug in where appropriate.
Bring in a 4c to play with rust/Sheary and ZAR. 4 legit lines. Reaves might be the better option over ZAR depending on how he’s looking down the road, but bringing in a scoring winger would add a lot of flexibility.
Maybe take Kessel off Malkin wing and let him play with Guentzel. Jake with Sheahan and Kessel gives that three line punch and let’s not pretend having the big three split hasn’t been paying dividends. Watching Malkin and Kessel overpass vs StL is an indication that they may be better off on their own lines
Benoit Pouliot? No fucken thanks… guys got the James Neal ability to take incredibly bad penalties 200 feet from his own net
This guy is 4th overall pick he has been a bust. He has all size speed and hands but is very lazy and disappears when needed. And at times I find here is clumsy
Pouliot and zac kassian biggest disappointed in this era. Of course we can’t forget yakupov and galchenyuk