Rather keep max then add another defender.

Pens accept the Fleury trade but not the Pacioretty trade

Are you confident in Whitecloud being a Top-4 defender of a cup team? I’m not. He’s a really good third pairing guy. Now we have a lethal defense on both sides of the puck, and Rust could potentially put up similar, if not the same numbers as Max

Why do you say that?

We don't need max plus it would put us over the cap. The Fleury one would make more sense for PIT to accept considering our goalies haven't been great

Whitecloud has shown he can be a top 4 guy. Add in we have more prospects in the pipeline with Korzack, Coughlan and Hague. Hamilton is no doubt better but committing 1/3 of the salary to 3 defensemen just doesn’t sound smart...

Also Rust cannot be expected to suddenly be a 30 goal scorer, like Max has been basically his entire career. I’m keeping Max

Not trading Rust for Max, it's bad value both trade wise and cap wise.
We also don't want MAF back. We ain't taking a 3.5 mil cap hit on a goalie for the next 2 years. We don't have it.

Boston does not need a 10th d man.

Pens say no to both,
no need for Fleury at 3.5
no need for Pack of Shreddies, we need RW more than LW, and it doesn't make sense to trade Rust a RW (+ and retain cap) for 4 year older Pack of Shreddies

Like the idea of the Fleury trade, but would have to take back one of the Pens goalies. Pass on the Patches trade. All that said, Pens don't have cap room for either.