Kapanen/Ceci is the new Esposito/Orr, prove me wrong

I hate to tell you but the Penguins are done making moves. They don’t trade for Sceviour and then trade him b4 he even plays 1 game with the Pens. I can see them trading him and his expiring contract at the trade deadline though. He will have more value then.

If you just want the cap space. Just bury Sceviour’s contract in the minors for now.

Lol..I really don’t think it’s as bad as everyone thinks though. Ceci/Matheson are a 3rd pairing D. Gonna play 3rd paring D minutes(8-12 minutes a game). And Ceci is gonna platoon with Ruthwedel. He won’t even be in the line-up every night. Yes, Ceci is really bad if he is getting paid 4.5M/yr and playing 1st paring D minutes. Ceci doesn’t have to do anything offensively, Matheson is a good offensive Defensemen, had trouble Defensively. Ceci good defensive defensemen and bad offensively and bad when plays big minutes and asked to do a lot offensively too.

And Ceci is basically getting paid league minimum for RHD. And if he’s that bad he can be traded at the deadline and his expiring contract too.

The problem with the signing is, he’s not that big of an upgrade over Ruthwedel. So why not use the cap space on a 3rd line RW and Just play Ruthwedel and Riikoli at 3rd paring D.

And Toronto basically signed a ton of 13-14th depth forwards and one good D(T.Barrie), and one 41 year old, over-the-hill center. Prove me wrong..lol.

I think Ceci will do better in a more sheltered role, with less minutes, but make no mistake, he's not good and it's a good thing if he's platooning. The leafs were stuck with him on the top pair for a year, and it was brutal lol

The only reason his numbers were semi respectable (defensively) this year is because he was playing with Rielly, so idk how he's gonna do with Matheson.

He has plenty he doesn’t need any more

Well, with Barabanov, Anderson, Simmonds, Thornton, Mikheyev, Roberston, Korshkov, Malgin, Boyd, Spezza, Engvall, Brooks and Petan, we've got more than enough bottom 6 bodies - we definitely don't need kappy's 13 goals at $3.2M

We saved $400K and swapped out Kappy/Johnsson with Simmonds, Thornton, Boyd, Spezza, and Vesey lol - I'm pretty happy with that, Kappy was an anchor for every line he played on

Still, he could light it up with crosby

He’s not gonna be asked to do anything offensively so I think he will be ok.

It’s just like I said, it’s a bad signing b/c he’s not an upgrade over Ruthwedel. That’s why it’s a bad signing.

And for kappy. Him and Zucker are the 2 best wingers Crosby will have on his wings...ever..lol. If neither of them or just Kappy doesn’t step-up, it’s nothing new. Crosby has carried his own line for years and can do it again.

And any Pens fan(like the one who posted..lol) that doesn’t have Guentzel/Malkin/Rust Line still in tack, they don’t know what they are talking about. Rust scored 27 goals and had 56 points in 55 games last year(a point per game). Guentzel was on pace for a career year b4 he got hurt. And they played together and have had chemistry for 3 years now. The line isn’t gonna break up. And when we put Zucker onto Malkin’s line last year, it was disastrous. Zucker had zero goals and 1 point. And had 6 goals and 11 points on Crosby’s line(his 12 points in 15 games w/ the Pens). Zucker is playing on Crosby’s LW this year.

I see Toronto fans on here doing things like this though too. Saying to trade a player b4 he even played 1 game..lol. Or Trade Kerfoot for a 4th-5th round pick for no reason but somehow they think a 41 year old Thorton as a 3rd line center all year is a good idea.

Yeah trading kerfoot and relying on thornton as 3C is dumb idk why some leafs fans wanna do that, esp considering we don't need to trade him lol

I can see trading Engvall. Maybe Holl. But even with Sandin and Liljegren. Why trade from a position where you were weak last year. Ya to trade Kerfoot w/ no obvious upgrade or replacement is very short-sighted.

Ceci is the next pylon penguins fans will be cursing at while they form a lynch mob for JR for being repetitively ignorant.

Not as ignorant as signing him for 4.5M and thinking he can play on the 1st pairing and 1st pairing minutes. And keeping him there all year.

Jarry had a fantastic season , but I just don't believe you can win a cup with that goalie tandem

lol, we had arguably a worse defenceman in Zaitsev who had 5 years left on his deal (thanks to the GM of the year, Lou), so we traded for Ceci, and he accepted his qualifying offer (which ottawa already offered him), which we basically had no control over

Very different than actively acquiring Ceci with the expection he'd be good. We knew he was gonna suck, and there was nobody who we could've stuck with Rielly that would've been better. Barrie made him worse, Holl worked great with Muzzin.

It was just an unfortunate series of events that we were stuck with because Lou signed Zaitsev to a 4.5Mx7 year deal lmao

yes, but when you do it 3 times in a row Hunwick, JJ, and now Ceci.... something has to give. I mean he really can't seem to figure it out. Like the whole fan base sits there and goes....wtf...we all know better than that. But not him. The day JJ was signed everyone was like wth are you doing. The day Ceci was signed the whole fan base is like jesus take the wheel, someone take away the keys.
At some point, it's just inexcusable anymore.

The problem I had with the signing is like I said. It’s not an upgrade over Ruthwedel. And the problem with JJ everyone had was the term(and the amount I guess). If he was one year 3M, show me contract. Or even 2 years. It wouldn’t have been that bad of a signing. For Ceci now, 1.2M for a RHD is basically league minimum. I mean 700k or 1.2?? 500k isn’t signing u another player. But to spend it on someone who is gonna platoon too. It’s said that Ceci and Ruthwedel are gonna have a camp battle and most likely will platoon as 3rd pairing RHD. That’s the problem. The 1.2M plus alittle more could have gone to signing a 3rd line RW in my opinion. Which could have been a drastic upgrade.

I guess Ceci 1.2M expiring contract might be worth alittle bit at the deadline too to acouple cap strapped teams that are out of the hunt. But that’s not what u want in an signing..lol.

Didnt “quote” my previous comment.