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A few places are reporting that the Pens are working on a deal with Mantha.
Should hopefully be a cheap reclamation project for the 3rd line. We definitely need more LD and depth players. Love it.
For some reason, I can now send DM’s again on HB. Sent an invite to 123kid. This site is still a little clunky. I’m sure they’ll figure it out, but I had to log in 3 times in a row. It’s kind of hard to find the forum part. I hate to say it, but they need to integrate the main blog from RW with the Forum threads on the home page. Like HB…lol. I like how anybody can create a thread….that’s a good idea.
I emailed support here about this. I can’t comment on anything RW writes either which I believe is the same for a few of us. Obviously meltzer put a couple RW blogs in the forum so it’s doable so that we can support RW. Also reiterated flyers suck in email.
I think dubas is a sit on his hands till the last minute type of guy. I suppose he still has today to help out teams by taking a bad contract for a price. So I’m gonna guess he isn’t going that route. Based on his draft day moves I believe he has 0 intent of making the playoffs unless these kids just click or Dan Muse is the second coming of Gordon Bombay. But I also don’t believe he’s drafting for long term success by not keeping two good picks in the draft, although I can only imagine who he would have chose with pick 12.
So far his ufa decisions have been pretty bad. I know he said he didn’t plan on going ufa shopping so I guess we will see. I imagine we pick up some bottom 6 scrubs to go along with the other oversized group of bottom 6 players we have. I hope we trade rust and Rak though. Decrease all chances of winning for McKenna. Give the kids the chance and let Jesus take the wheel.
It’s funny… I wanted the team to get bigger for years just like grinder. However, I wanted those guys to also be good players lol. Jesse Marshall had some good things to say about a few of our draft picks. IMO, he’s one of the best Pens analysts. I have to admit, I was a bit bummed originally with our picks because none of the “insiders” mentioned any of the players we picked. Obviously, it’s such a crap shoot.
Drives me nuts everywhere I read as Eklund being the biggest steal of the draft at 16 ????
They probably need cap shenanigans for marner. Wouldn’t mind getting Nicholas Hague from them though, not that we need more LD
Dude the isles had a great draft. It’s pretty amazing the difference between Lou and Darch…
I mean Lou def could have screwed the pooch, but they lucked into winning the 1st overall. And what was left at 16 and 17 I think everyone here would have chosen Eklund and aitchenson. A few of off the board picks from 11 to 15 worked out in their favour. Eiserman is supposed to be a pretty beastly sniper. They are going to be a pain to play thanks to their luck.
Yeah I’m personally not a huge fan with the route Dubas went. I would have much rather had Eklund, but for what it’s worth, TopDown Hockey had Kindel as 8th overall, and most draft people had Zonnon in the mid-20s. Horcoff seemed like a pretty big reach, but he didn’t play a lot at Michigan so TopDown’s model wasn’t very kind to him.
Wish they would have done Eklund Kindel back to back if they were that high on Kindel. Like RW says, bottom 6 guys are a dime a dozen, would have rather swung for guys with higher upside. A lot of comparatives have Kindel compared to Brayden Point so.. hopefully that works out.
Yeah I am of the same camp. I would very happily be wrong if he ends up being pretty good.
Agreed, and hopefully the pros know more than us but I highly doubt even actual scouts can surpass our collective knowledge haha. Bear and Eklund were pretty much unanimously beloved to be higher ranked prospects. Both play relentlessly. Could have had one of them and kindel if they really wanted. Everything done leads me to believe saying he wants Sid back in the playoffs is lip service and we are in some sort of lacklustre rebuild. Don’t know why he would trade down instead of taking the best players available.
I will be watching Eklund and aitchenson on a personal note to see how their careers compare. I think the isles are going to be a frickin nuisance.
I would hope these pro scouts and management ppl know what they are doing but I’m becoming sceptical. I think he’s on a quantity over quality game plan and I’m not on board. Maybe zonnon but I still think there were much more likely ppl to contribute than anyone chosen.
He also says the plan is to make the playoffs with Sid again and he’s done nothing to help that cause. None of these players will see nhl ice with Sid unless he plays into his 40s
Not really seeing much worth seeing. 6’6” kid who plays pretty soft and can’t score in juniors. Very nice.
Rumours starting to pick up more about rust being traded as well as accari
When every prospect we acquire has below nhl skating we should become a real hard team to play against. Can’t wait for how dubas will botch July 1st
William horcoff – biggest knock is skating ability. Apparently dubas doesn’t care about this what so ever.
