Penguins getting trade calls on Schultz?
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have received trade inquiries into defenseman Justin Schultz from a “few” teams, a league source says. One team in particular said to have gauged Pittsburgh’s interest in potentially moving Schultz is the Carolina Hurricanes, sources say. Carolina is aggressively seeking a top-2 pairing right handed defenseman, preferably a rental.
Penguins GM Jim Rutherford is always of the mindset to listen to almost anything if it doesn’t involve Sidney Crosby and listening on Schultz will be no different in the coming weeks, but it would have to be a hockey deal.
Despite being bumped to a third pairing role with John Marino’s emergence, Pittsburgh values Schultz highly for what the Penguins believe can be a deep playoff run this spring. Schultz has never recaptured his offensive prowess from the 2016-2017 season but moving Schultz would come with risk as he’s a nice insurance policy (if he can stay healthy) were Marino’s game start to take a nose-dive deeper into the season and if you’re the Penguins you have to always take in account Kris Letang’s injury history.
No information it’s connected to Carolina’s believed interest in Justin Schultz, but interesting enough, Carolina’s Erik Haula is a player on Pittsburgh’s trade board heading into the deadline, sources say.
C Erik Haula
Age: 28 | Cap Hit: $2.75MM | UFA 2020
19-20 Season: 33 GP-11 Goals-8 Assists-19 Pts
The ultimate goal for the Penguins is try to replace Jake Guentzel but easier said than done. Adding a versatile third line center is also high on Pittsburgh’s wishlist where Pittsburgh could keep Jared McCann at wing for the rest of the season and keep Nick Bjustad at wing if he stays on the roster past the deadline and is healthy. [/hide]
John Marino 2 to 3 week time table that’s doable he is young maybe just two weeks….fingers crossed
In the OFF SEASON it might be finally time to look at moving letang.. How many brain cramps can a superstar defense man keep having at 32
WE HAVE MARINO PETTERSSON DUNOULIN ADDISION IS COMING SOON
MONTREAL HAS ALWAYS WANTED HIM……..
With tonights win MAF passes Henrik lunqvist for 5th All time.
Apparently. Panthers got smoked tonight. I don’t know what’s worst being Panthers fan or routing for Bernie Sanders. Sucks to be npl
Pitt played tonight?
As Npl says. Penguins had no puck luck lol
Bad game for Sid! Rust had a rough night! Letang was dogshitt most of the game. The Blu line was subdued… I hate this fucken road trip. Too much fun in the sun not enough, ya gotta job to do.
Same result for the Pens as Vegas got the other night… except MM made twice as many stops lol
Zero…the penguins need one forward AND YES one defense man…everyone including Rutherford thinks the penguins are good on defense..right now they are not
Dumoulin isn’t even skating yet!!
letang looked like dog shit last night!!
Marino took a slap shot somewhere hes nicked..!!
This defense isnt good enough
Sam will blame the 4th goal on Murray because CNN didnt tell him the net was empty
Nice……
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
Brutal… hey Sam, Letang killed a 2 man advantage and now the bolts have a chance to put a dagger in their heart… just in case this don’t make the CNN ticker
Power play has been average all year. Letang won’t shoot. Pass up shots to force passes.
His inability to shoot from the point is a missive detriment on a 2 man advantage. They an cheat to Malkins side and shut off the PP. maybe Marino needs a look
Vasilevski has a fucken horseshoe up his asss vs this team
2 men up… hopefully the PP clicks finally but knowing Letang he’ll surrender an odd man rush
Letang with 3 fuckk awful passes on the PK so far
2 man advantage and Letang single handedly killed about 40-50 seconds with terrible passing
Letang never shoots the puck enough….so yes they cheat to a side or pack it in down low! they basically dare Letang to shoot because they know he wont….
MARINO sCHULTZ AND RiKOLA ARE BETTER POINT OPTIONS ON THE POWER PLAY
Commercial break. Wannabe American Democrat Sam is watching CNN
Fraud Murray is due to fake an injury
Like Shea Weber did? I mean I don’t blame him, wearing that sweater it makes sense he’d try to avoid playing much over 50 games annually
Fun fact… if we include playoffs…
Weber has played 223 games for Montreal since 2016
Murray, a man who split time with MAF and now Jarry… 224 games in that span hahahahahahahaha
That’s so fucken funny hahahahahaha
Murray way younger then weber and had more injuries then him.
Also has way more cups lol
Nice… teams are gonna have to start preparing for Malkin again or he’s gonna continue to take advantage
Sam, pens scored and are within 1. Whenever youre done watching CNN check out the Pens game
Wannabe democrat american Sam watches CNN
Sorry fatso I don’t wanna be like you
Try recruiting zeroTool he seems to like liberal/democRat views more
Sam watches CNN hahaha
Watching bernie Sanders on CNN is like watching a mental clown
Haha look who turned the game off! And to watch Bernie Sanders! Hahahahaha
Typical Sam the virginal bandwagon man closing his TV early
Its called commercial / intermission. You wouldn’t know that since the minute Penguins down 2-0 your TV is already off so you wouldn’t even see when the period ends
Bernie Sanders
Letang sucks
Go watch Panthers game fatso
Letang on the ice for yet another play the leads to a man alone in front of the net…
I mean his partner vacating the front did him no favours either but Kris is on another level tonight
Fraud Murray tripping ahahaha
5th or 6th odd man situation… all but one with Letang on the ice…
I’m not sure what’s worse: Letang at defense or Sam at intelligence.
Magic number for our number 1 goalie tonight ?
Right now? Not as high as Vegas needed the other night but…
Still half way to go
Hence the “right now” dummy, And he’s already made more saves than Fleury did lol
Excellent pinch Letang… that said MM has still made more saves vs TB than MAF did and MAF didn’t have to contend with Letangs inability to know when to pinch!
Great pinch by Letang there
How many TVs are back on
Hey zeroTool. Remember few nights ago you had MAF stats vs Tampax
How is is fraud Murray doing tonight
Well, Murray has already made the same amount of stops Fleury did all game…
And gave up less goals lol
Officially stopped more than MAF the other night hahahahaha
Now it’s ridiculously one sided in favour of MM
Apparently Dustin byfuglien will be available
Drool chubby, drool. He’s contemplating retirement, so we all see why you’d be interested.
I’m making droolers like you excited
I make this trade in a second Eric Haula can fly and there is our third line center at $2.75 million.
i believe both players need a change of scenery…
tough to trade with in your division though???
No way. Top 4 dman for 3C is not an equal swap.
Then what do you do with the hole on the back end? You don’t believe one of Riikola or Ruhwedel has convinced you they’d be just fine during a run do you?
Hey D any news when will your site crash again ?
Is this the same Justin Schultz that Tool drooled over and same said he is nothing special. Man those Tool favorite players are really something shea,chubby TK. And list goes on.
Only one of our top dmen for two Cups. Nothing special, right chubby?
You mean the teams top defenceman when Letang watched the team win a cup without him? Like Kessel, and Sheary you’re talking about players that actually contributed to the 2017 cup while Letang took a long vacation…
As erratic as Letang is I don’t think you can make this move unless the return is greater.
Agreed. Haula is very average and defensive depth is too important to compromise for a bottom 6 player.
Damn D….you blow coke today?
A whole season’s worth of content.