Optimism in Penguin circles of moving on a trade this coming week
The Pittsburgh Penguins today agreed to terms with forward Conor Sheary on a three-year contract worth $9 million, the team announced.
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The deal runs through the 2019-20 campaign and has an average annual value of $3 million.
The Sheary deal comes six days after the Penguins locked up Brian Dumoulin to a 6 year, $24.6 million contract.
Sheary’s arbitration case was scheduled for August 4th. Sheary’s agent planned to request $4.5 million in arbitration, while Pittsburgh was prepared to request around $2.25 million per a source, if things would have gone that far.
As what happens 98% of the time with RFA’s, both sides made some compromises.
Pittsburgh gave Sheary some security with the three year term and Sheary’s camp came down on an asking price when they played hard ball for a few weeks.
Both sides began to push for a deal on Tuesday as the Penguins and Sheary’s agent Lewis Gross each made new proposals and a deal officially came together today.
Nobody wanted to make another trip to Toronto as was the case with Brian Dumoulin where the Penguins agreed to a new deal the morning of.
Sheary had a breakout campaign in 2016-2017, setting career high in goals (23), assists (30), points (53), and plus-minus (+24). He also led the Penguins in 5 v 5 points/60.
Sheary, though, has been an interesting situation because of how lost he looked in the playoffs for long stretches.
His long-term future with the Penguins will still be up in the air moving forward.
The Penguins have given the Sheary camp assurances he won’t be traded this summer but Pittsburgh is not against moving what they feel is a strong trade asset in Sheary to address another need at ‘some point’, as one source close to the situation said.
League sources believe Sheary’s contract enhances his trade value if Pittsburgh were to go down that route.
“They’re already getting calls,” a source said.
The Penguins have made some in roads in trade talks for a third line center in the past three to four days. Some optimism they could move on a deal this coming week.
The team now has less than $4 million in cap space.[/hide]
“We do not have to worry about Canada, we do not even think about them.”
And the sammich wants that man to fuck him without a rubber lol
Dammit, that’s not quite the quote tho 🙁 lol
Sam has more accounts on this site than there are articles per week. He clearly doesnt know the worth you money.
There has been 1 new article in 9 days. We’re all laughing at you, guy who pays for this site.
And as is typical – we’re laughing 2x harder at Sam and his 2 accounts.
You’d think there’d at least be some kind of write up on Zack Anton freeze.
We only get Insider articles when press releases come out.
Doesn’t make any difference for you or stain if there is a new article or not either ways you 2 bozos come here thumbs down everyone’s comments. But I get what you mean no articles in last 9 days less people come back less thumbs down guy and your hump buddy can provide on this site. In the mean time go on netflix and do same exercise there
These posts are always funny to me, coming from the guy that logs in under two separate accounts to go around “thumbs downing” posts of people he doesn’t like. Sam’s the best. The virginal know nothing bandwagon man!
“The say you disguise yourself with sam”
“But I get what you mean no articles in last 9 days less people come back less thumbs down guy and your hump buddy can provide on this site. In the mean time go on netflix and do same exercise there” – easy for you to say haha
“The say you disguise yourself with sam”
“Moving on a trade this week” yet we have zero chatter about who etc for 3+ days now!
Guess the Daily 5 pasted away, again.
Great news! Sheary signed a 3 year deal! Thanks for the info, D!
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sam though TK 2.0 boxscore… bandwagon got to know the worth you money
Would be big if the pens can land butcher
The Bay Harbor Butcher.
RIP James Doakes
yes Will Butcher is a stud defense man that wont take long to get to the NHL not right out of training camp. He is a young defense man this organization needs in the pipeline. Given the Penguins success with college players Rust, Sheary, and Guenztal I think he will lean on coming here…he also likes Chicago. so? he would be a great addition since we signed Zack Anton freeze recently as well..
Just curious. Have you ever watched Butcher play? I’ve talked to a bunch of DU fans that all seem to think he’s nowhere near NHL ready. A lot of them think that he’ll be a career AHL player.
What do these DU fans think about Zack Anton freeze?
Zack Anton Freeze was a great villain in that one Batman movie.
He’s no Marc-Andre Fleury. Thats for sure.
Great analysis Yoda.
Pretty sure Yoda is trying to disguise himself as “Hockey11”
The say you disguise yourself with sam
The sammich thinks it’s a “disguise”… dumb as sin in all things in life
Another swing and miss for the virginal bandwagon.
If they don’t pick up Cutch’s option for next year this organization is even worse than ever…They messed around with this guy all off season oh we are trading him he is done…BS no one is done at 30 years old he has 3/4 of one bad season like all athletes do…look at him now 22 homers, rbis are good, and he is making diving catches..yeah he is done this organization couldn’t hit air of it jumped out of a plane….they would miss just awful
I wonder if this organization would hit air if it jumped out of a plane. Whats your take?
If this is Cutch’s last year as a Pirate, what a damn shame.
If they’re smart, this will be his last year as a Pirate – because they’re sure as fuckk not going to pay him, and they can’t afford to lose him for nothing.
I agree. They either resign him (they wont) or trade him for something. Im just saying its a shame that the window to win with one of the greatest Pirates in history has been slammed shut after no moves were made to supplement what is a very talented team.
No argument there – I completely agreer. Their biggest mistake was not going all in after the 98 win season and making a push. That was the one year you needed to super spend outside your comfort zone and try to win a championship. Deplorable how that didn’t occur.
Thats about the time my attitude started to shift. Then once the Liriano trade happened last year, coupled with the lack of movement in the offseason, Id given up on this front office. Still love the team, will root for their success, but its depressing to see opportunity wasted.
tHE BIGGEST MISTAKE IS THE PIRATES ORGANIZATION ITSELF….WHAT A BUNCH OF STUMBLE FUCKS THEY HAVE RUNNING THIS ORGANIZATION……MARK CUBAN COME BUY THIS TEAM PLEASE..AT LEAST YOU WILL TRY TO WIN WHEN ITS APPROPRIATE
OH MY GOD!
Why is Yoda so mad?
I dont know. Hes been like this since the Expansion Draft.
2015 should have been his last year after they went all-in that season to cap off the 5 year window and win a WS but alas it is the Pirates we’re talking about.
Anyone wanna explain to me why the Pirates just traded for a 40 year old pitcher that makes $7.5M?
Cmon, its the Pirates. They got cash considerations for him. Add that to a prorated salary and they wont come anywhere near that amount, nor the playoffs.
I don’t watch a lot of baseball TBH and I can say I have never had issues with the Pirates… I feel for the fans though. I rarely read anything positive.
Is this like when Littlefield knew he was on the way out and stuck the Nutting with Matt Morris?
Nope. Not at all. The Pirates are paying the remaining of Benoits 7.5M contract that ends this year, minus whatever cash the Phillies threw in. Morris, on the other hand, would be paid the full remainder of his 10M salary that season, plus the next season at the full 9.5M.
Not defending the Pirates. Just reminding you of your typical ignorance.
because its the worst run organizartion in all of baseball look above two comments..this organization couldn’t hit air if it jumped out of a plane…they would somehow miss just brutal Benoit really
They’ve had interest in him for years.
That’s really all I’ve got. Granted they gave up nothing for him but I don’t see how this is better than Kuhl to the pen and Brault to the rotation.
“They’ve had interest in him for years, since he was like 37 or 38”
Kuhl is the better starting pitcher. Hes been an above average starter, pitching like a mid rotation guy for the past 2 months. Take out his recent start at the Coors Field Launchpad and he has an ERA of 3.39 since May 31.
Another day, another time sammich gets owned and exposed for the idiot he really is lol
He went back into hiding for the time being. I’ve never seen anyone embarrass themselves on any platform the way he does on here.
it’s forgivable to be wrong, we all are time to time. It’s the utter arrogance of telling everyone else how stupid they are while screwing everything he says up that makes it such a bad look lol
Yep. Talking in absolutes sure doesn’t help either. The combination of talking in absolutes, whilst being wrong, AND arrogant to boot? Good fuckingg luck with that.
They hyper-nationalism drives me nuts, makes my people look ridiculous too
No it doesn’t. It makes him look ridiculous. Nobody just assumes “canadians” are like that.
Very true. I was in Canada a lot growing and outside of downtown Toronto, I really enjoyed the country and the people there. They generally seem very down to earth and friendly.
Sam is a product of incest. He represents all of the one-eyed cyclops. Not the people of Canada.
genuinely has me laughing in my office HAHAHA… you just finish the Castlevania series or was this just a terrific coincidence?
Never heard of it, lol.
Beauty, it’s a animated series based on Castlevania III for Nintendo… big fight with a cyclops in episode 2 or 3 and it’s being kind of hyped by game fans so… just a great coincidence that sammich is also a cycloptic piece of shit lol
So the pens signed a player better than Toews for 3 mill per…..talk about signing at a discount to help the team win!….Toews would never do that the greedy pig
I’m sure Parise did for the city that he was born
Well…. 7.5 million AAV vs 10.5 AAV so you could make that argument. I mean Parise’s production has dropped off at near the rate of Toews but there is a quality player difference in Salary here
Sam never address just hot overrated / overpaid Toews is – just picks someone else to bitch about – even though Parise’s level of overpaid still allows you to sign Sheary on top of his contract before you even get to Toews ridiculous cap hit. Sam the know nothing man! #SoVirginal
Not sure if you read the article on Toews the other day. He has suggested he needs to drop the negative attitude when things are not going his way. He is apparently not too positive when the team is scoring 3 goals in 4 games lol. So much for those intangibles… Oh, saying that on a hockey page is quite fun. The numbers coming to Toews rescue when I referred to him as Captain Overrated the other day was comical. A lot of one liners with zero retort… the only retorts that did come in was a list of the… Read more »
And the ridiculous bonus he gets every July 1st I know it’s not against the cap but he doesn’t deserve that money specially when he is playing on 3rd line.
The bonus counts against the cap too, you moron.
LMMFAO, bonus money is part of the AAV… by all means, continue to prove to the world how little you actually know
Also Zach Parise was 4th on the team for ice-time by forwards, his regular C Koivu… led the team in icetime for all forwards. Just because the internet shows you his line 3rd from the top the ice time suggests something far different. Its amazing how you talk about everyone else reading a box score yet these little stats that you refuse to acknowledge tell a very different story overall.
In fact Parise was averaging a higher TOI than anyone that the internet lists at the defacto “1st line” lol
To note, Parise has not received a bonus payment in 2 full seasons lol… Toews gets one every year of his deal
He’s only been following the sport since the Crosby draft – still trying to get his arms around that salary cap though.
Funny reading around the league… some morons have this cap friendly deal as part of a sign and trade. Maatta and Sheary for who? Come the fuck on, people can’t be this stupid? Trade two for one and chip away at the depth, I imagine for the “big fish” some think they need as the 3rd line C lol.
“You have to consider that he’s still relatively new to the league, he’s still learning the league. And keeping up with the best player in the world for 82 games isn’t an easy thing for anybody. But we’ve seen enough good things from him.” – Jim Rutherford
Also – please tell me the last NHL “sign and trade” that you remember happening. I’ll wait.
I literally cant remember anything since the Hossa move from Ottawa about 10 or 11 years ago
My Google machine has Setoguchi in what somewhat resembled a sign and trade in 2011. Either way it is very rare in the NHL
Steal.
Any bucco trade rumors? Haven’t seen anything online. Watson? Fraser? Harrison? Looking to add anything?
Another stupid trade by one of the worst run organizations in baseball,,,,Joaquin benoit to the pirates for a minor league pitcher. What in gods green earth is Bumblington thinking god this organization has no pulse of its team…Why?
Nice price for Pens. In GMJR we have grown to trust.
Should have signed TK.
TK is out at Bill’s every Monday evening teaching kids hockey
Careful guys – Sam the Know Nothing Man is going around thumbs-downing people again.
That’s your and Npl’s full time job
Pens really need to make.few more adjustments because with the current roster they have now it will be hard to win 3rd Stanley in a row specially that fleury is gone and Murray will be more exposed
Oh so it’s hard to win 3 cups in a row? That’s ingenious! Thanks for the knowledge virginal bandwagon. At least it’s not as idiotic as pretty much every other post of yours. And we have 3 million in cap space and no third line center. No $hit we will need to make some moves.
I bet it’ll be easier for them than it will be for the other 30 teams that have yet to win the first two. #VirginalSam
Yeah, but it will be harder than if there were only 6 teams in the league. Montreal prides themselves on “championships” they’ve acquired in a league that was smaller than our division.
They will be fine….especially if they sign a solid 3rd line center…and go after free agent Hobey baker award winning defense man Will Butcher…(sounds like he wants to be a Penguin)
the only move i dont like is Anti Niemi as the back up goalie he sucks for the last almost three years. We do have JTristan arry and Gustvason who are both really good goalies..
Smart move by sheary he knows going elsewhere he will look miserable. Like this he can play with sid and have more value and then con another team later on. Just like Armstrong, Malone. They got overpaid elsewhere because they played with sid and once they were gone they never had half of the success elsewhere. Now let’s just wait for shitstain reply
Why do you type so much when you’ve been outed as having no idea what you’re talking about…repeatedly. Sam the virginal know nothing man!
This is all he has. This and a Kid v Rock cd that he got second hand from a middle school kid.
Pens got a terrific deal by a kid taking a hometown discount. Had he played as many games as Johansen he would have eclipsed his point totals then demanded 8 fucken million a season lol
Cullen?
I love Matt Cullen hope he comes back for one more year but as the 3rd line center? we will see…. he is a character guy and the Penguins need that losing Kunitz…Playoff big goals are usually scored by the glue guys…Patrick Hornqvist for the Cup,.Chris Kunitz to get us to the cup in double OT…Ryan Reaves will help in physical and character department
It won’t be Cullen.
Kunitz is garbage just ask stain. Mr Box Score he will right away reply to you since he hibernates on this site
Haha! Sam is the best. Hides for weeks, then accuses others of hiding. Dude, no wonder you’ve never touched a vagina.
Sheary, 25 years old, slumps and sam thinks he sucks. Kunitz, 38 years old has regressed over 3 seasons and scored 2 goals in his last 18 and I can’t recall the numbers including playoffs but same thinks he was worth keeping over Sheary… what’s a stupid fucken turd
wow that’s harsh without Kunitz consistently throwing his body around and scoring in double OT we dont get to the finals. .so he has been good for a long time back off francis
They’re trading for a 3rd line center. If Cullen comes back he’ll be on the 4th line and Rowney will move to wing.