Latest Penguins Trade Deadline Buzz
Matt Murray’s implosion Saturday night is getting all the headlines after the Penguins 4-3 loss in the Stadium Series as Murray’s inconsistences linger.
Just imagine if the Penguins miss the playoffs by one point and how many will look back to that game.
The real story out of this game, though, is Kris Letang’s long-term health for this season and how it has the Penguins scrambling over the last 24 hours before the deadline to cover their bases.
Olli Maatta’s timetable is still up in the air, but internally his injury has been looked at as a 4-6 week injury (placed on IR Feb 12). The Penguins know they’re likely getting Maatta back this season, they just don’t know exactly when yet.
Pittsburgh has some clarity on Brian Dumoulin with an official diagnosis (concussion) but there is uncertainty with Letang who is being evaluated for a stinger in his To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
Industry buzz is Pittsburgh has been attacking the d-man market in trade talks much harder since the Flyers game than they were at any point. Pittsburgh has been connected to Buffalo’s Na[hide]than Beaulieu in trade talks over the weekend, league sources say. The Penguins are high on Beaulieu as a change of scenery target. They’re just not fond of the cap hit.
Rumblings are in the past day Pittsburgh has even talked to Detroit about a Trevor Daley return, who has earned high marks from Pittsburgh scouts of late. Daley’s remaining year on his contract would be problematic, though.
Ducks defenseman Micheal Del Zotto who the Penguins liked in free agency (2017) could be a discussion internally and acquired for next to nothing.
Overall, Impact options remain severely limited.
Claiming Dennis Seidenberg, 37 years old who has yet to play a game this season, does nothing but with an organization so high on Jack Johnson, I wouldn’t rule out anything.
Ottawa’s Cody Ceci is another one the Penguins should be staying away from based on cap hit, cost to acquire but who knows.
As of a few days ago, the Penguins were not a team at the forefront for Adam McQuaid but circumstances can always change with the latest injuries. Pittsburgh’s coaching staff has been in favor of adding a McQuaid/Ben Lovejoy (traded to Dallas) type to solidify the third pair, but prior to the Dumoulin/Letang injuries, management had favored adding a puck mover if they did anything at all on the backend.
Lack of Assets see Penguins strike out on top rental winger targets
No second-rounder in the next two drafts, no third rounder in the 2019 draft combined with no cap space has proved difficult for the Penguins get any traction in trade talks for rentals they had high on their wishlist.
The lack of assets saw Pittsburgh never be in the conversation for the big fish like Matt Duchene.
Pittsburgh coveted Mats Zuccarello for months, tried to make a package a young forward for Zuccarello but the Rangers from the start sought a second rounder + a top prospect or multiple picks that saw Pittsburgh just never line up with New York, especially when New York was going to have to retain salary.
For Pittsburgh to have landed Zuccarello who broke his arm Sunday, it was always going to come down putting their first-round pick in play. Same thing for Wayne Simmonds which is the ask + some from Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher.
Gustav Nyquist who was traded Sunday night to the San Jose Sharks was another situation where the lack of a second-round pick had Pittsburgh on the outside. Pittsburgh looked into Nyquist but things never got serious and they were not a finalist for him.
The Penguins are in a situation at the forward ranks, where unless you add a legitimate top-6/or top-9 winger, there’s no reason to bring another winger on board. Just go with what you got. The team, though, has scenarios on their board that have been considered deadline day targets where names such as Edmonton’s Alex Chiasson and Zack Kassian have been looked at as big bodied depth targets.
— A recent healthy scratch, the Penguins are getting calls on winger Dominik Simon, league sources say. Arizona among the teams high on him. Some of the trade interest has been intriguing to the Penguins that Simon has a chance to move today I’m told.
— Would be a desperate move based on the asking price, but one executive says don’t be shocked to hear rumblings the Penguins are or did make a surprise run at Kevin Hayes when his market heats up this morning.
That would be a situation where Pittsburgh’s first-rounder would have to be in play to even be in the conversation.[/hide]
Pens did a good job getting gudbranson at least malkin will look good beside his – 27 and the penalty department
Gudbranson is a good physical guy but slow .that #44 he will be wearing will make you droolers remember orpig back
because he takes a lot of dumb penalties and gets caught out of position.
He was a good 3rd overall pick with high potential but playing in that shitholee Florida anyones career can get ruined
Hey Sam, shut the fuckk up… no one cares and literally no one seemed to overjoyed for the move you fucken donkey
Bloomberg 2019 healthiest country index
1spain
2italy
3iceland
4japan
16 canada
35USA
That is a very liberal publication you are citing there. Good for you.
Its true it’s your people. Should be even lower for US. Considering the amount of fat fuckss there is
Well Im happy youre thrilled to be in 16th place. You are a true Montreal Canadiens fan.
Senators have 27 round picks for the next 3 years I wonder how many penguins have
What is a round picks?
this feels like 2015
Brassard 1st goal as an avalanche
Drool
Holly hell, I just looked and saw we have 30.6 million tied up to 9 D. Our bottom 6 is pathetic. Simon, Cullen and Wilson are going to dress every game. This team is way too thin at wing.
ZAR-Bjug-Simon
Wilson-McCann-Cullen
Vomit
$12M tied up in Maatta, Johnson and Gudbranson alone. Those three are 5/6 guys at best
The Carolina Penguins. It is the Rutherford effect. He builds a winner and then abandons everything that got him there. He did what he was brought in to do for 3 years and now he is going bat shiit crazy signing and trading for garbage defensmen. Just put some traffic cones out in the defensive zone, they will do a better job. I do not see how he will be able to unload these terrible contracts (JJ, Maatta, Gudbranson…). His only recourse is to trade Maatta for whatever someone is willing to give back, buy out Gudbranson and bite the… Read more »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WBlpjSEtELs
I don’t think gudbranson will play tomorrow night. Since he is in Canadian team he most probably have to get visa to work in US team
Meanwhile you have illegals coming in the country everyday.
Can any of them play goalie
Jarry time…
Have him fly to Mexico and come up through the south on NPL’s caravan.
What no GUBER damn
Hopefully they will not give him one at all. The Penguins already have a JJ, they do not need a slower one.
Sam’s Drool Counter – Feb 25:
Weal
McDavid
Fowler
TSN
Stone
Hayes
Npl
Doan
Gudbranson
Johanssen
Del Zotto
Kingpuck
Reaves
Hot dogs
More to come…
Like seriously get lost dude
You’re a miserable child. You need attention. Fuckk man. Ask your mom to spend more time with you instead of hosting her gangbangg events
Npl glued in front of his tv watching Bernie sanders on cnn
Do we think that DePaoli knows the 12 noon Eastern time deadline has come and gone
in all seriousness, after brassard going for a 3rd round pick today, does that make the pens/brassard deal the worst in pens history? i’m saying yes. that was the point where the train wreck began and it will soon mark the beginning of the end of an era.
Naslund for Stoyanov is listed every year as the worst trade in NHL history.
that was a horrendous trade, but last season was going good and the brassard trade derailed a serious cup run.
derailed a shot at a dynasty of three cups in a row
I vividly remember that one
You’re a twaat but you’re not wrong here…it’s not even close between Brassard and Naslund deals. I’d also submit the Jagr deal despite his public request being fucken dogshit in a manner the Brassard deal can’t touch
Jags one though also had to deal with no cap and Howie Baldwin running the finances dry on Sudden Death
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfxeQhk_9E
https://youtu.be/xPA8ywkrMmw
Stupidest trade today was
Npl traded his hot dog cart with 120 hot dogs.
With Half of them already boiled in that hot dog water .
All for a bag of chips
Then you wonder why all those Florida people are weird
They say Canadians, on average, are funny… they haven’t met you
I’m suprised he traded the hot dog water too. He got ripped off.
I’m sure that water hasn’t been changed since summer
Ok, that made no sense.
I really like the moves today. I’m back to feeling the Pens are favorites to come out of the east.
Relax as favourites first fraud Murray needs to stop pucks then we can talk favourites before penguins be favourites in East there is bruins ,leafs,jackets, Tampax before them
Can’t pick up sarcasm… thinks ramrod is Stan lol
Really, I think Gudbranson is the RH power play specialist the Pens have been missing.
Did NPL give us a scouting report on Gudbranson since he used to play for Florida for 5 years?
I doubt if he even knows who he is
pens vs blue jackets tomorrow. the concussions will continue. the pens are going to get the snot kicked out of them. it’s the new NHL.
so last year rutherford moves, a 1st round pick, the top nhl goalie prospect, a 3rd round pick, ian cole, a 4th round pick, and ryan reaves for derick brassard……….and this year brassard goes at the deadline for a measley 3rd round pick. way to go!!!!!
If you look a bit earlier last season. 1st round was given to get reaves
Thanks Sam for once again stating something we all know. Loser.
Lighten up Francis.
I think the 2 moves GMJR did is enough to make the playoffs but it all depends come playoffs if malkin is still on vacation mode and fraud Murray can actually stop the pucks and stay healthy. I still have hope guys
Thats all i need to hear!
HAHAHAHAHAHA, for Sebastian Dea… HAHAHAHAHA I guess I am fine with this one just based on the fact that it was poor Dea but…
Wow they love losing dea
Now that penguins got 2 defence. Once 58,8 and 3 comes back who will be healthy scratch. 73,44,6,28,4,2
Probably 44
And maybe 6. But definitely not 2, youre right to keep him off the list
Really? Because this is the first time they’ve traded him.
Sam’s Drool Counter – Feb 25:
Weal
McDavid
Fowler
TSN
Stone
Hayes
Npl
Doan
Gudbranson
Johanssen
Del Zotto
Kingpuck
More to come…
Wideman too?
Yep, as I said yesterday.
Jr was weak at this deadline….We traded for a 6 ft 5 220 lb right handed defense man who is minus – 27. We got rid of Tanner Pearson’s contract..(which is ok).But for what buffalo paid for Ducks defenseman Brandon Montour ( atop 4 guy) we had a 4th and a 7th pick to give… penguins are toast now…..even if Letang and Dumolin are back soon its just not there this year!
Yesterday Shane doan name was mentioned in the hockey world too bad pens couldn’t get him today. Since its an annual trade deadline drooling name
“He scored as many goals as kessel” – Name that dipshit
How’s sheary doing ? You think he will be able to fetch 3rd round pick for the penguins this year if he decided to score 20 goals or 40 points. Oh wait there is no Crosby to do that
That’s your default? You accuse others of drooling over Doan when you were the fucken fool that said that? How’s St Louis doing? Hudler? Georges? insert old washed up and soon to be retired here. You do realize, and I pointed it out last year as you were being a fucken fool, that Sheary did most of his work without Crosby last year right? As it stands right now he is 4 points off the pace… He was hot for a bit, slowed in the last five although hit the sheet vs Washington the other night. He has been strong… Read more »
Walls work
DemocRats don’t
Weird thing to plss your pants over
Kingpuck usually shows up this time of the year. I guess npl did a wonderful job to chase him away from this site
Pens trade Oleksiak a month ago to bring him back at twice the dollars? I’m about done with JR… unless Gudbranson has more in there than what we have seen
Yeah and traded Pearson to canucks
He at least has the draft pedigree and I think this served two purposes 1. Get rid Pearson 2. Back up D body
I wonder if npl knows who gudbranson even is
As always I reserve full judgement until I see him play and adapt to the roster. Its just we have seen several duds. Oleksiak may not have been a top 3 but he was a high 1st rounder. I just see a guy that seemed to do well in a depth role, a tad younger, play a very similar game making 2 million less and its a tough pill to swallow. Gusbranson does have more of a mean streak and its fair to say injuries slowed his progress but it is unlikely he will be anything but a depth player… Read more »
Besides the deal boils down to we traded some TP for a Guber.
I’m happy losing Pearson, especially as it means Bleuger has to play now but…
I liked gudbranson when he was first drafted by the panthers he had the size and potential to be a top D but can’t blame him he was lost and miss used in a shitholee team like Florida. Hope coming to Pittsburgh Can be a good restart to his career only thing I don’t like he might be wearing orpigs #44
Johansson to bruins for 2 picks
Del zotto to blues
So late
Bobrovsky staying in Columbus, despite Sam saying he would be gone
Mackey says Pens have a trade in the queue as I said yesterday
Well well well your mom forgot to lock the Internet after 3pm. Must be busy with her gangbangg event
I remember you mentioning Gudbranson. Wondering if that will come to fruition.
Dude I nailed this deadline.
To top the day, nail Sam’s mom.
It’s crazy how you break stories faster than anyone on here. As I said yesterday, there isn’t a single person on here that’s even comparable.
Simmonds to Nashville as I said yesterday
No assholee you wanted him in Pittsburgh specially for his color
I can’t wait to see GMJR press conference if he thinks and has confidence in his current roster then he is as stupid as npl
Stone to Vegas… No one saw that coming! NO ONE!
I said that yesterday before anyone else
The only thing you should be seeing coming is mcdavid running away from that shitholee oilers team and never looking back
Is that why he signed that 8 year extension?
Has. Nothing to do with his 8 years contract. He can ask to be traded anytime and trust me team would have no choice to do it. Year after year they are mocking this guy by bringing in dinosaur players and now a dinosaur coach. That organization is way worst than Pittsburgh right now. Just sucks 2 best players in the world are stuck in messy circus teams
Specially right now you have oilers fans throwing mcdavid jerseys on the ice says it all how people are fed up with that clown fest of an organization.
It’s called fairweather fandom, seem to remember that happening in a Habs game last year
Hope he does eventually, it’s sad watching a player with such ability die on a franchise that has its head so far up its ass. Hopefully he don’t land on a rival and for his sake hopefully he stays away from Montreal… lots of idiots in Quebec
You never know he can land in Toronto. Since leafs has the perfect players to package it
Let’s see as I said yesterday stone to flames or Knights ?
You also said yesterday you have an innie bellybutton. Prediction there ?
that is one of the best comments i have seen on here. well play, mr maloni
I even said it 4 hours again in case you get lost in yesterday posts
That you have an innie ?
Let’s be honest, sam likely had two “innies”
Hey npl anything hockey related you can bring on the table ? Oh wait D has nothing so answer is no for npl as well
Tampa has been more successful than Montreal since the Lightning joined the league. They are also currently the top team in the NHL.
Brassard to avalanche
Mcquaid to blue jackets
Big trade coming. Buzz, drool, buzz
Buzz????
Sam’s Drool Counter – Feb 25:
Weal
McDavid
Fowler
TSN
Stone
Hayes
More to come…
Npl’s drool counter – Feb 25
Hot dogs
Hot dogs
Even more hot dogs
Insidepittsburghsports
7/11
KFC
More to come …
How did I do ?
2 Can play your nonsense here
Now get lost and stay lost.
Youre actually a good speller when its food related. Interesting.
Why is this scumbag Trudeau on tsn
anyone know if GMJR up yet from his nap?
Yeah he is still having his morning coffee
New trade update.
Npl just traded his hot dog cart along with 120 hot dogs half of them already boiled in that hot dog water.
All for a bag of chips
Bad joke update:
See above.
Nothing is bad joke when it involves you fatso
Aw that’s sweet. Thanks!
French Weirdo Sam has been drooling like crazy today.
murray is inconsistant, (if he were st.bleury, it would be cullen’s fault for putting the pens shorthanded at the end of the game the other night not the goalies, hahaha!), geno wants to go back to the mother land, kessel quit, letang’s neck is broken, and the coach’s favorite 3 players are desmith, aston reese and simon. let’s be honest, the pens are a mess this year. it is what it is. i’m just hoping rutherford can recognize that, scrap this year, fire the coach, and finally blow it up in the summer time.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have Fleury still Yoda?
“and finally blow it up in the summer time” – keep in mind this “finally” means he is referring to the period he was screaming to blow it up from 2011 – 2016 weeks before the playoffs. This effectively means he either wanted the team blown up through the cup runs and/or he’s too fucken stupid to think about the easy to find details of his posts. It’s one or the other! The team as constructed is a mess sure, needs retooling… so you would move Malkin, Kessel, Letang and Murray right now and what? Expect Crosby to stay to… Read more »
Pens need a #6 Def to hold the fort until they get 100% healthy. At the moment, they can look at EDM – Benning RD $1.9M, ARZ – Lyubushkin RD $925K, Re-acquire STL – Bortuzzo RD $1.15M.
We all know this team is a disaster but there is another team is worst and a laughing stock and that’s the shutholee team oilers.
Is there any way penguins Can make big trade and save mcdavid from that circus. Kessel, malkin mattaa for mcdavid. Now that’s one worth drooling assholess
Drool drool. Is McDavid French Canadian? No thank you.
McDavid makes sams asshole drool
Habs In talks with ducks for fowler
Fowler starts praying to go anywhere else
Get lost fatso focus on your panthers. Half the team will be traded today
You cant trade college players.
The TSN Tradecentre panel picked their Top 5 favourites to win the Stanley Cup. Ranking score out of a possible 25:
Tampa Bay: 24
Winnipeg: 12
San Jose: 12
Calgary: 9
Boston: 8
Nashville: 6
Washington: 3
24 Teams: 0
Dump JJ, Dump Pearson, any trades made sure it is a guy that can be retained for 3-4 years… no rentals this year but they need to be roster spot ready. I know there are limitations based on available trade assets but this team is highly unlikely to get through TB… Washington… Boston… if by some miracle they did they would not beat SJ or WPG this season.
I don’t think this team can make any singular move is going to help the Pens overcome such poor inconsistent goaltending. They also need to sure up the D and prices are high
As I said yesterday penguins already made a lot of moves during the season and it’s never good to play with teams chemistry and by now we see its not working and no matter how many trades you do it starts in the goal if your goalie is not consistent puts doubt on the players up front. As I said better pens be sellers and think about next year . Kessel ,mattaa,murray must be gone by next September if you want this team to start fresh
Crosby, Malkin and Letang and 30/31/32 years old… this team isnt “starting fresh” any moves require fully established players. The window isnt open much longer and if they “start fresh” it slams shut. JR did well a few years back but has suddenly managed the team into the ground… he is overthinking it and so are you. Unfortunately there is a lot of legit dead weight, not slumping players, on the roster brought in over the last 12-13 months that could handcuff the team. Whats the UFA market like this year? Maybe some dumps for cash flow? Either way admit… Read more »
I was never a fan of that longterm contract of JJ
And as for hags I always talked high about him and got laugh at when I said he does a lot of little things you don’t see
Murray not helping the team situation as well just matter of time team shows their regret about him and matter of time the zombies on this site realize Murray is not as good as it’s been advertised
Literally everyone said the same thing about Hagelin… It was why so many were very hesitant about the trade. His inability to convert was frustrating but he was recognized as a guy who does a lot without scoring. I don’t recall a lot of guys too happy with the deal. Unless it was simply Dusty fawning over Pearson… which I could see.
As with most, I reserve judgement on that deal with the caveat being that if Pearson scores the Pens did alright, if he continues to do nothing the Pens get smoked on the deal.
Hayes is gone
Flames and Vegas battling to get stone
Got to love being in Canada specially Montreal 4 channels doing trade deadline TVA, RDS,TSN and SPORTSNET
Must suckss being in npl because only news he get is from this broken website
Another reason why Florida suckss
You know Tampa has been more successful than Montreal since the Lightning entered the league, right?
Dude just stop talking and log off from your multiple accounts so the site doesn’t crash anymore
Lol youre mad
Kevin Hayes to jets for Brendan lemieux and a 1st round
DePaoli…I mean Same..is back
Did we crash yet?