Latest Pens Buzz: Debacle vs Flames & Latest Trade Buzz
Penguins General Manager Kyle Dubas is right to play the card of let’s give it another go next season like he professed recently in the lead-up to the March 8th trade deadline. Saturday night’s third period implosion has to finally lead to the direction the rest of the way for the 23/24 season to get some veterans out of here by Friday to open up spots and play some younger guys the rest of the season as an evaluation tool for building next seasons roster. The Penguins in complete control through the first fifty minutes of play just fell flat on their face in a game that had to have and played the percentages of starting their No. 1 goaltender
Penguins looked into Sign/Trade of Noah Hanifin for 2nd time? Red-Hot Market for Reilly Smith?
NOTEBOOK BUZZ — Rumblings, Musings, Opinions — ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ High Attempts/No Finish: Pittsburgh’s 2-0 loss to the Seattle Kraken Thursday Night was another classic example of Pittsburgh’s lack of finish ability coming down to not being a team that prioritizes sustaining offense of being a presence in the net-front/heavy traffic areas. Personnel/System issues, this is a multi-year problem that isn’t going away especially when you’re primed to lose your best pure goal scorer via trade or free agency. Pittsburgh can’t keep living in this world of ‘we carried play and didn’t get lucky bounces tonight’. If the system isn’t going to change, someone in the management team has to start prioritizing different style of forwards who has some nastiness on the
Latest Pens Buzz: Penguins have started to separate Contenders/Pretenders in Guentzel Talks
TRADE DEADLINE BUZZ One Surprise Entry into Guentzel Market: Penguin management is very methodical in way they operate under Kyle Dubas. Even prior to deciding just recently to seriously listen on Jake Guentzel, the team has had a list together for over a month now of who they believed would be the top contenders to trade for Guentzel and what Pittsburgh would target in a trade from a list of up to eight teams, sources say. With the deadline inching closer, contenders/pretenders have started to emerge. Word is nothing has caught the Penguins by surprise on the market except for one team that’s been a late entry since the weekend: [hide] That team being the Boston Bruins. Pittsburgh is said
Eastern Conference Team Conceptually Discussed 1st rounder, More for Jarry?
NOTEBOOK BUZZ — Rumblings, Musings, Opinions — ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jarry Trade Winds: Tristan Jarry’s name coming up in trade winds over the last couple days wasn’t the Penguins doing from the sense Pittsburgh put his name out there to court offers. What’s at play here is an Eastern Conference team approached the Penguins early last week about Jarry that has at least given the Penguins something to think about prior to the deadline and into the summer. No offer was made for Jarry but there are whispers a [hide] first-round pick and more [/hide] was conceptually discussed. [hide] League buzz is Pittsburgh was approached by the unknown team with a potential significant proposal/idea………….[/hide] Jarry has significant support in the organization from
Rumors: Canucks have weighed paying premium for Rust over Guentzel?
With a strong push from the head coach, the rumor mill has been buzzing in league circles over the last 72 hours that trade talks between the Penguins and [hide] Vancouver Canucks have significantly heated up around winger Jake Guentzel. Some believe the two teams being face to face with Tuesday’s game in Vancouver could see some significant movement towards a deal. Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet has spearheaded Vancouver’s renewed interest in Guentzel even after the acquisition of Elias Lindholm.[/hide] [hide] Never say never with Jim Rutherford at the helm who can always be desperate when he believes he can win like he believes with this Vancouver team, but Canucks management have made it known moving a significant a
Latest on Jake Guentzel: Leaders Emerging in Trade Talks?
Latest on Jake Guentzel: Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman in his Saturday Night headlines listed five notable teams in on Jake Guentzel, naming Vegas, Edmonton, Vancouver, Carolina and Florida. There are believed to be others in the mix penning the ability to discuss an extension with Seattle being one of those teams on the outside, league sources say. The five teams, though, mentioned above have been the usual suspects for a few weeks now in the mix for Guentzel as either a rental or a trade/extension: Extension Buzz: There are strong indications Vegas and Florida are two primary teams Guentzel would at least be receptive to discussing an extension with prior to a trade, which could give the Panthers and Knights an
Latest: Pens/Habs Fallout; Scoring Depth; Bemstrom Acquisition & More Buzz
Key Takeaways from the Penguins 4-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens Thursday Night –Jarry Won the Night in first 10 minutes– Kris Letang might have been the storyline with two goals on Kris Letang bobblehead night but Tristan Jarry won this game in the first 10 minutes. If Jarry was a tad off his game, this one could have gone south quite early on for the Penguins with how out of sync Pittsburgh was defensively. Montreal was buzzing out of the gates with 19 scoring chances and 10 high-danger chances, all 5 vs 5 in the first 20 minutes of play. Jarry went on to make 30 saves in the win, marking the fifth time out of his last six
Latest Pens Buzz: What We Learned on Penguins Plan Moving Forward
— KEY TAKEAWAYS/OBSERVATIONS FROM KYLE DUBAS PRE-DEADLINE MEDIA SESSION – ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dubas Does Well in Outlining a Plan Moving Forward What Kyle Dubas needed to do Wednesday was start selling a message to the fan base and whether it’s the right move or not, he did well in laying out his vision. In believing the likes of Sidney Crosby, Erik Karlsson and Kris Letang will remain higher level players for the next couple seasons, the Penguins will try to toe this line of being competitive while bringing in younger talent on the fly to avoid any real short or long-term pain. The view outside of Pittsburgh is this will not work but Dubas was extremely thorough as to why he
NHL Buzz: Golden Knights emerging in Guentzel derby
— Vegas eyes opportunity to discuss extension in trade talks for Guentzel — Buzz in league circles is the [hide] Vegas Golden Knights armed with draft picks and LTIR space have emerged in recent days as a dark horse team to watch on the Jake Guentzel front. The Golden Knights interest in Guentzel has been fueled-by a belief that Vegas is a team Guentzel would be willing to discuss an extension with prior to a trade. Vegas has two pending free agents at the forward position in Jonathan Marchessault and Chandler Stephenson. A Trade/Extension of Guentzel would likely see the Golden Knights moving on from the soon to be 34 year old Marchessault this summer. [/hide] The Penguins have not
Latest Pens Buzz: Was Pittsburgh’s Loss to Kings the nail in the coffin for the 23/24 Penguins?
Jagr Weekend was a First-Class Operation: Top to bottom the Pittsburgh Penguins organization put on an amazing display with the retirement of Jaromir Jagr’s #68. President of Business operations Kevin Acklin deserves his popcorn. Acklin was the frontman in making this happening. It’s easy to put together a plan, but to enact it and deliver it so well like the Penguins organization did is something else altogether. The Penguins have now set a precedent on how you go all out for a franchise icon. It wasn’t just the festivities Sunday afternoon with the hanging of #68 to the rafters. This was basically a 72-hour celebration that started on Friday and Pittsburgh knocked every step along the way out of the