Bedard

Imagine going from Lemieux to Crosby to Bedard...

Only way i see PIT tanking and getting #1 is same as every other time
If their Former HOF Franchise Leader is retired or just gone.

Until then their compete level and ability to impact lesser players game will always make them a wildcard.
Give me Crosby when he's 40 vs Bedard at 21 and ill take Crosby every day of the week .
Only way to alter that is 2-3 good drafts in a row where you build around your youth like PIT did with Crosby or Malkin and WSH did not do with Ovechkin.
With the right people guiding them a young gun like Bedard at 21 could out produce a top 3 all time player in Crosby at 40 .
But those odds would be the longest of longshots.

Unless i just missed a memo where Letang, Crosby and Malkin are all out for the year the best PIT can hope for is the same they always got since drafting them with 1 top 15 pick in Derrick Pouliot #8OA.

Why pay 5 million for Gavrikov when we can just pay POJ 825k? Why pay Ty Smith 1.5 million when he is playing in the Ahl this year? This is just a waste of cap imo. Next year the cap will go up at least 1 million. Why waste cap buying out McGinn? Just send him down to the Ahl. It would be silly to spend dead cap on both JJ and McGinn.

Love it

Why is POJ getting dealt? He has been one of our best dmen.