pittsburgh woudnt give you Guentzel straight up for Carlsson

hagelin is awful on slow, big bodied teams

drouin deal actually would be great for MTL but the minute you pull the trigger patches comes off the trade block and MTL is able to look good again as theyd have a real true #1 center, and theyd absolutely want to play him with patches

Yeah... I just figured Hag was in the earlier Karlsson proposal as a salary dump, so I looked at whether he'd fit with Wash, said, "nah," and moved him onwards, to another noncommittal likely playoff team with cap space. Didn't really want himin the first place. Won't miss that fourth round pick.

As for that Pacioretty deal, I think Johansen and a 2nd, plus players works for an awful lot of rental players. McDonagh or Nash come to mind if some salary is retained.

More importantly, does Pitt have a different 3C they'd give up for a Norris contender? Otherwise I don't think the Caps offer Carlson, even for two firsts.

is this a joke? Im all in on a joke but cmon Carlsson a Norris Contender????? As for the question im not sure what you mean by "different" 3c as our ONLY 3c is Riley Sheahan and theres no way in hell we give him up that would leave Carter Rowney centering Phil Kessel, and we only just got Riley this season ans hes bomb as hell, love the dude.

while we are at it, Justin Schultz outscored John Carlsson last year... im not saying points are everything but the pens would hesitate to even trade those two straight up yet alone add our third and fourth best wingers... AND a depth winger AND 2 first round picks!