EXTENSION CANDIDATE
The Pittsburgh Penguins gave up a steep price for David Perron last January in what ended up being the 16th overall pick in the deepest NHL draft in 12 years.
Is it even worse asset management to let Perron walk for nothing next summer?
“He [David Perron] could be here for six [hide] to seven years,” Jim Rutherford said in January following the trade.
Has the Penguins stance changed following Perron’s disappointing end to last season and with the addition of Phil Kessel who’s eating up $6.8 million in cap space?
The answer is ‘no’, according to a high ranking front office source.
“You don’t let that type of skill get away,” the source said.
The Penguins have had a preliminary discussion this month with Perron’s agent Allan Walsh to see where the Perron camp stands. The two sides are planning to speak again later next month once camp opens.
Perron, 27, is carrying a $3,812,500 cap hit this season, due to make $4,500,000. For the Penguins they’d most likely be looking at a deal to keep the cap hit in the high 3, low $4 million range. Like all agents do, they look at the players current salary not the cap hit.
From the Penguins end, though, the time could be ripe to get Perron at a team friendly deal.
“Free Agency is scaring the heck out of players,” a veteran NHL agent of over 15 years said.
Lucrative deals have been extremely tough to get for many quality players and for others getting a job has been even tougher.
The largest contract given out to a forward this summer (UFA) was Michael Frolik, 5 years – $21.5 million.
Frolik is also a Walsh client and based off this summer’s free agent group, Frolik is the best comparison to Perron. The two put up similar numbers, Perron the more established scorer and skilled winger, with Frolik having the stronger two-way game.[/hide]
NOTES
The Penguins today announced they signed 2015 second round pick Daniel Sprong to a three year entry level contract. The deal kicks in when Sprong turns pro. Sprong will be playing in the QMJHL this season.
Sprong signs…. Friday… did we have an article on that?
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Hey guys its getting close to season why don’t you take the fat, gay, racial and xenophobic comments elsewhere
They can’t most probably they are banned from other sites including fb so they come here and continue their retardation
Good chance that Gay Fat Samthewoman is one of them.
Sam’s mom is fat.
Hey D, see if you can add the option that allows us to see who has disagreed with a post. I all for fair conversation but I’m curious as to who disagrees with my comments on Perron and why…. Other then fatsam, because he’s a fucking moron
LOL
Actually not a bad idea but loved the fact that there are 4 downs at least on comment
of course you love it… Because as I said only a moron would not explore a reup of that skill set before he gets too expensive
Perron had hurt ribs at the end of the year don’t forget. That’s not easy to play through. It even effects your breathing.
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I love how every time I sign in it says, Welcome, Sam is Gay!
have you noticed ou812 ever since the states accepted gay marriage u have been active on this site and obsessed with gayness.before that you were a ghost on this site
I’m not gay and I have nothing against anyone who is but you obviously have issues with it along with other things (obesity, racism, etc.) Someone already took Sam is Fat and I didn’t want to use the N word like you freely choose to do so I figured Sam is Gay would be appropriate. It obviously bothers you since you choose to respond and accuse others of being gay. You are easier to antagonize than the Pens in the playoffs. Maybe if you toned it down and weren’t such an ass verbally attacking anyone with a difference in opinion,… Read more »
That some is npl the real fatso
New site, same old Gay Sam.
Well, new site and same old Sam.
how about npl and ou812
oh ya new site new upgraded dummies as well
Bryce Williams called repeatedly, saying he wanted to pitch a story and needed fax information. He sent ABC’s newsroom a 23-page fax two hours after the 6:45 a.m. shooting that was part-manifesto, part-suicide note — calling himself a gay black man who had been mistreated by people of all races.All this happened because npl chose Micheal Sam over him
Did you think it would be funnier the 3oth time you posted it? Your obsession with proving your stupidity is simply astounding.
Sam holds the record at -23 for a single post. Really have to give him credit as I did not realize there was even 23 people on the whole site. He’s already at -6 on this article. Can we get a new TIOPS record??!!
get a life moron . D should hire you. You are on this site more than anyone
nice work d. loving the new site and the content. here’s hoping this continues. we’ve been burned by daily 5’s before…
I would give it a close look right away. Concern being he plays as bad as he did late in the season… hope is he plays more like the guy that came over early. I have a sneaking suspicion he is more the early guy than the late… Maybe he has sold me on the interview he gave where he admitted he changed the way he played and deferred more to Sid and Geno after electing to shoot as much as he could early on. The skill is there, if they can extend him for a fair amount vs what… Read more »
Welcome back D! This is the site I used to know. Great Job!
You’ve really been on top of stuff this week, D. Great job. As for Perron, I think they should let him walk and sign a few free agents that will be “deterrents”. /s
agree great job D only thing you have to clean up the garbage on this site ou812 and npl10 are trolling on every article made this site look like a kinder garden.in case you dont know their new user name one is sam is gay and the other jabroni is sam is fat
Sam is gay
Sign him to kunitz style deal. Kunitz will be off the books or close when the the deal starts
As I said pens should trade him at the trade deadline specially if he is not a top 6 guy for pens. DP is good to have early half of the season more season advances the more he disappears he has ton of skills but not consistent . after all kovalev was his idol growing up so he plays just like him
http://thehockeywriters.com/david-perron-should-rebound-in-2015-16/
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