Penguins/NHL
Penguins GM Ron Hextall struck a deal with the Anaheim Ducks for Rickard Rakell in the waning minutes of the 2022 deadline. Will Pittsburgh and Anaheim be a dance partner for the second consecutive year?
Talk around the league is once again connecting the Penguins and Ducks in trade talks ahead of the deadline. And the Ducks are being pegged as a team that Pittsburgh views as an option to knock out two stones in one trade.
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Hextall has to be the worst GM in Pens history!!!!!
Can’t imagine the Rangers landing Tarasenko helps matters much. RW on hockeybuzz brought up RoR. I just feel like moving futures for anyone at this point is futile, but here’s to hoping.
So the Penguins want defenseman Dimtri Kulikov who has 10 points in 52 games and is -13 and Derek bleeping grant who we already had and he was uuuggghhhh and we traded him.
That’s all Hextall can think of? Holy shit we are in trouble…
Derek bleeping Grant are you kidding me….Hextall cmon now…