Team has big suck?

That’s why u don’t trade picks for rentals at the deadline ever it almost never pays off

Yeah but they won back 2 back cups how do you argue with the results?

With the exception of the Barzal Trade (which got them David Perron) every trade Pittsburgh has made has paid off



3 cups in 10 years, I would say, 30% off the cups over the span of a decade is pretty impressive

I think the most interesting part is that despite a long history of taking D with early picks under Shero the Pens have actually used very few UFA/draftee D to win cups. Most of the team post-2010 is forwards acquired for D prospects and D picked up for a song from other teams.

Yeah, you're wrong.

Jerome Iginla scored 23 points in 28 games with the Pens, the 3 players they gave up have a combined 9 nhl points since the 2013 trade (how is this a loss?)
Leopold didn't contribute much, but what has Conner Brickley done again? nothing? (what exactly did we lose here?)
to early to say Brassard was a bad trade we'll see how he plays this season.
The doug Murray trade is insignificant, maybe tyler bertuzzi turns into a greta player, but doug murray wasn't bad at all when he was with the pens

So lets try looking at the Genius ray Shero steals

Perrron for Haglin was a Win
Goligoski for Neal and Niskanen was a big win
Bill Guerin was a steal, you could even lump Gary Roberts in there
Ryan Whitney for Chris Kunitz was a STEAL
a whole bunch of nothing for Hossa and Pascal dupuis was a MASSIVE STEAL (I did like Colby when he was here)
Staal (sad to see him leave) for Sutter and Dumoulin was a win
Sutter for Bonino was a Win
Phil Kessel was a flat out STEAL

Pens are always improving themselves with trades