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It’s expansion draft night and Vegas GM George McPhee hasn’t been as accommodating as so many General Manager’s envisioned he would be. The friends club was there for some but not others who were trying to strike a favorable deal.
While Vegas has worked out at least eight to 10 side deals with clubs, including the Penguins, a source described as McPhee being cut throat in some situations where some clubs are going to get hit hard with losing an important piece or two.
That didn’t happen to Pittsburgh.
Marc Andre Fleury’s tenure as a Pittsburgh Penguins will officially come to an end today.
Fleury will become a Vegas Golden Knight today and is flying to Vegas this morning to be part of the festivities.
The question with Fleury has been, is he long to stay with Vegas and what are the Penguins giving up to Vegas for them to take Fleury and avoid taking others?
1. Vegas has signaled to interested clubs in the past couple days they are keeping Fleury. Vegas owner Bill Foley wants to make him the face of the franchise for year one. He is staying put for now.
2. The sides had two different parameters of a side deal in play [hide] entering the weekend, a smaller deal with Pittsburgh sending a high draft pick/and or prospect to Vegas for taking Fleury and a bigger deal was in play at one point with Vegas taking more than just Fleury’s salary and the Penguins dealing multiple picks/prospects.
A smaller side deal has commenced. Pittsburgh will be unloading Fleury’s contract by sending a high pick to Vegas. A prospect may also be involved but it wouldn’t be anyone of significance.
To totally understand the lack of market there’s been for Fleury since last June, unloading the contract without taking back a bad contract back or keeping a dime of the cap hit, is of great value for the Penguins during this current window to win more Stanley Cups. They’ll survive with losing the draft pick.
The Penguins will enter the draft weekend with $20 million in cap space.
— Starting this coming season Marian Hossa at age 38 was scheduled to see his salary drop to $1 million per season for the next four seasons. He might really have an allergy problem with his equipment but how convenient this pops up now when there’s only $4 million left on the contract.
Hossa wins as he collected $59,300,000 of a 12 year, $63,000,000 contract that still had four seasons remaining on it and now the Blackhawks win as they get out of the cap hit ($5,275,000) because they say he has a medical issue.
Skeptics aside of what’s playing out here, Hossa will be a sure fire Hall-of-Famer and was one of the best two-way forwards of this era.
That summer of 2008 was something else where Hossa spurned the Penguins to sign with the Red Wings for one year. If you love rumors, that was a great frenzy.
If Hossa would have accepted a 7 year, $50 million offer the Penguins had on the table for him in July 2008, it would have been fascinating how the Penguins roster played out in the coming years.
Good chance the cap space would have never been there at the 2009 deadline to acquire both Chris Kunitz and Bill Guerin. Kunitz still going well, has become one of the Penguins best left wingers in team history and Guerin’s impact on that 09 team can’t be overlooked and he’s now a top hockey executive with the club.
Hossa’s 26 points in 20 playoff games during the Penguins 2008 Stanley Cup run was a career high for him and the acquisition just put the Penguins on another level that spring with other Eastern Conference teams. No one was close to them. Unfortunately that Detroit team in 08 was a machine.
Hossa and Crosby would have been great to watch together for years but at the end of the day everybody won with him spurning the Penguins in 08.
— NHL sources say the Penguins are exploring the market for Carl Hagelin to potentially open up a few things and Hagelin has garnered interest from a couple Eastern Conference teams.
I don’t get the sense the Penguins are in full-out mode to move him and are comfortable to bring him back but want to keep their options open.
A source described Hagelin getting moved as 50-50.[/hide]
Sad to see fleury go. Thanks for the memories.
Was drafted exactly on this date 13 -14 years ago. I will follow time to time Vegas team because of fleury
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The original building block. Good luck to him in Vegas.
Vegas with 3 French goalies
Yikes, thats not good.
A 2020 2nd round pick. Yoda really nailed another one…LOL
Did they “trade” Fleury?!
Party at Yoda’s
While I like the approach LV is taking by stockpiling picks, with the 2017 draft expected to be 1 of the weakest drafts in a long time they would have been better trying to spread those picks over 2018 & 2019.
They “trade” Fleury out west yet? Raantta starting for Vegas yet?
Jew bettman and then nhl only donated 20k to bickel. Why even broadcast that embarrassing number. I guess jew bettman will get another raise this year
Don’t you mean jee bettman?
How much did you donate?
Can’t believe Malkin wasn’t a finalist for the Lady Bing. He’s turning into the Rodney Dangerfield of hockey.
They need to come up dumb penalty takers trophy I’m sure he and Neal will be finalist every year
Vegas needs a true number 1 center
Montreal needs 4 centers. And a bunch of defensemen.
Somebody yelled “You suck Torts”! Hilarious!
So Vegas is drafting 5 players and a bunch of bums and getting a bunch of late picks. Their team is going to suck balls and fans will not go to games. Vegas has too many other entertainment options and should not have loopholes allowing them to throw a crap team on the ice. Why wohld you allow them to make side deals preventing them from taking a good competitive team? Vegas will fail as an expansion team. Great job Betman….idiot.
What picks are they getting? And what expansion team is good in their first year? They’ve already sold out their season tickets and their goal is to build for a couple seasons down the road. Let’s just hope for their sake they have better goaltending and their coaching isn’t as poor as the Pens.
After year 1 and 2, theyr attendance will be mandated by wins. This draft sucks and besides the islanders, they got a bunch of 4th+ rounders. The team will be lucky to score more than 2 goals a game with their “firepower”.
They are going to get a lot of visitors there and people from the visiting teams as its a destination place.
Knights going to be a cheap shot team
hagelin is sitting next to crosby. he’s going with a 1st round pick to vegas so they can get the saint’s salary off the books. totally worth it
I’m good with it… bye Felicia
How much you want to bet that doesn’t happen? My paycheck vs your ebt card. How bout it?
And we should believe that because of your prediction of Raanta being Vegas’ starter? You really don’t need to prove you’re clueless, everyone already knows.
This show is brutal to watch seriously didn’t we have enough of gnome Pierre during the season
Nice to see Chewy win the Norris. Very deserving.
This may make me sound old, but who the fuck are these guys?
So just to prove that the King of Idiots ignorance knows no bounds, after guaranteeing Raanta would be Vegas’ starter not Fleury, Vegas isn’t even drafting Raanta. Mark that up as prediction 1,000,000,000,000,000,001 that was nowhere close.
t minus 1hr 10mins until the biggest fraud in hockey history is salary dumped….and i loooooooooooove it!
This is your only jolly Yoda isn’t it? I guess you have to be envious he has a successful life, a great career still, three Stanley Cups and no one gives a sh*t about you.
He owns 3 cups, millions of dollars, and yoda’s asss cherry.
WTF for MAF want that A$$ cherry its probably green and moldy like his predictions
TOews getting moved? “Traded out west?”
What’s hilarious is not even a week ago you promised the world that MAF was still gonna be a Penguin
Pens “trade” Fleury out west yet?
Bye bye Emelin
0 center 0 dman model.
too bad the saint is getting traded out west. the pens should have done all they could to keep him in the east. you know it’s a guarantee he will have epic meltdowns every time he plays the pens. it’s a shame they won’t get those automatic 2 points more often. oh well, at least the vegas owner is a sucker and fell in love with the clown and allowed the pens to salary dump him.
Would have been nice to see the line he’ll center matched up against Crosby more.
dude you do realize that fleury is the reason the pens won the damn cup this year. if not for his saves against Washington then the pens loose.? how damn dumb are you.? and he is the reason they won it in 09 season also. maybe not last year but definitely this yr and 09. so without him you dumbass they have 1 cup. so shut the fuck up already
I would give him more credit for last year than Murray, if not for Fleury single-handedly carrying the team for the 1st 3 months of the season through the Johnston debacle they don’t even make the playoffs. Murray was just along for the ride in the playoffs while the team in front of him dominated in a nightly basis.
They’re trading him? Maybe keep him. Make him our 4th line center. Trade!
Would’ve been even better if he went to the flyers and beat pens every game he plays at the ppg museum
t minus 4 hrs
Democrats lose yet another election. Lol that party is self destructing
Don’t tell Nippples. He still things Hillary won.
He is probably busy with his #BlackCocksMatter protest at this time
Last you checked?
But #AllCocksMatter, right Sam?
How so?
A stunner in Georgia…
salary dump’s a comin’….and i looooooooooooooooove it!
I can live with it too if you keep your word
#hallfofameplayoffnumbers,.891,.899,.834,.883
Dont forget, 0 games played at center for Shane Doan and Bobby Ryan.
Do you think that’s better than “you should only poke check third and fourth liners”?
Oh the entertainment of watching Depaoli completely fabricate “information” to appease the 3 fools that are actually feabile enough to believe the stuff he writes.
Amazing that D’s “sources” are the only ones reporting it’ll be a “high” pick to the Knights…yet somehow, they don’t know HOW high it is. Sounds a bit like throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.
“throwing **** at the wall and hoping it sticks.” – The name of yoda’s posthumous autobiography
shouldnt yoda be gone by now…..fleury to vegas….literally the whole world has reported it…..isnt he supposed to go away now…and NOT be reincarnated into a new name with the same dumb thoughts
Like how Gaydogg morphed into CoachD
Yeah from gaydogg to coachDumbass
So so bad at this.
Worse than Sam at this.
Kick in the balls if Pens have to give up anything meaningful to get someone to take Fleury off their hands.
Agreed.
We’re about to see how much the Pens value Rust. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a 2nd round pick.
I wouldn’t scoff if it was Hagelin although it’s highly unlikely to be him. Guy is easily replaceable and isnt worth 4 million
t minus 6 hrs
Anyone else a little surprised yoda is smart enough to do remedial math?
He is clearly using an app, I don’t believe he could do it himself
Astonished.
Sam was right… something about the HBK line and the players that make it up… winning back to back cups meaning in as many years as they have played on this roster. Genius like this comes along once… twice in a generation. This is about as stupid as suggesting the Pens sign Martin St Louis a day before he retired, or have Doan come to Pittsburgh and play centre after playing 1500 games on the wing LOL
As same said few weeks ago whole pens were still in playoffs. Pens will not lose fleury for nothing it will be a trade and trade deal was done during the playoffs but they kept it low key until pens were done winning the cup. And as for haggy how is that one hit wonder hbk line doing. Hey zeroTOOL I guess I was right about that too when you drooled over them and I said it’s a one hit wonder and won’t even be together next year and I guess this year was the proof and 2/3 hbk member… Read more »
Franson is a free agent. Think hes heading to Toronto again?
Is Malkin going back to Russia again this summer and leaving the pens? And is there a status update on Ladd Hudler?
Your mom is a free agent for a gang bang event
There goes Sam, thumbs upping himself again. Sam did call it a few weeks ago – they were still in the playoffs. Mighty perceptive.
LOL, Hagelin iced the cup game… Kessel was 3rd on the team in production in the entire post season and Bonino was clearly missed for the 1st couple games he was absent but he was still a timely contributor and solid PK guy. So ya, they didn’t work as a unit this year but the simple fact remains that while this team employed all 3 guys they won cups every year. I love how narrow your vision of what goes on out there is. On an unrelated note… what do you think of Bergevins continued decimation of the Habs defence?… Read more »
Sam – who was the better first round pick – Beaulieu, Tinordi or Fischer…
Trade Hagelin, get Kane. Boom. 3peat.
i’m saying it’s a 1st round pick in a trade and then vegas gets rust too
“A prospect would be involved but no one of significance” – Yoda reads this as Rust, our “prospect” Bryan Rust lol
#shanedoan4c
Yoda probably thinks this is going to cost us a ton, as Rust could have been our 4th line center next year.
keep on believing in your saint. #pensfansnowlovevegas, #patronsaintofgoldenshowers
What does anything have to do with Fleury? We’re talking about your inability to decipher between a life long wing and a centerman, yet then going on purporting to know something about goaltending. Meanwhile you just dig a bigger moron hole.
HAHAHA, I just read something asinine from the sammich above, I was thinking he was pulling up to you as the king tardo on the page. Unsurprisingly you have held your belt. That post wasn’t so much about MAF as it was your complete lack of understanding of what a prospect was with a dash of the incredible stupidity of your Doan comment from the other day. Now back to your day job… being a pin cushion for up and coming goalies
Man are you stupid. Please leave this site. For once in your miserable existence follow through and leave like you promised.
One last fuck you from MAF costing us a 1st round pick to move….
You mean they could lose the 30th overall pick in the 2017 draft… noted to be one of the weakest drafts in years? Simon Despres comes to mind lol
While I get why we are so aprehensive about picks the 5.75 million is more important
*apprehensive
*31st overall.
Oh yeah lol, that will take a little getting used to I guess