Équipe: 2020-21 Penguins de Pittsburgh

Date de création initiale: 5 mars 2021

Publié: 5 mars 2021

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Right now, the Penguins have many problems yet many talented players that don’t work well together. Since it’s easier to fill some holes rather than trade a whole team, the focus here is on three of the problems: Power play, penalty kill, and lack of physicality.

Power Play: Dustin Brown becomes a huge pickup for the power play as one of the league leaders in PP goals. Brown displays a physical net-front presence on the man advantage.

Penalty Kill: Soderberg is another reliable killer, same with Zadarov from what I know.

Physicality: Brown and Zadarov are two physical players who bring more than just a Ryan Reaves, no offense to him.

I would also look at giving Zucker his own line and allowing McCann a role in the top 6. Matheson being grounded with a stable stay-at-home D in Ceci may hide his weaknesses a bit better. It’ll be like the kids who hid in the bushes in Fortnite back a few years back. You know they’re there but they’re harder to see and still suck nonetheless.

I’d be concerned about that third line potentially which is why if you can address it in the off-season, that would be ideal. Maybe you look at a trade for a guy like Nick Schmaltz or one of the Jets talented bottom six players. Granted, these guys are good for a reason and why would their teams want to trade them away?

Feel free to take a look at the PP and PK lines and let me know what you think. I’m not a fan of Jake on the first power play as he’s fallen in love with the pass and refuse to shoot when he’s with Sid and Geno. I’d rather see him man his own unit.

Thanks for taking a look, we are all just garbage armchair wannabe general managers at the end of the day.

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