Pens laugh and hang up

There’s this thing called the cap, heard of it? … Tampa literally can’t afford that under the cap.

No chance Pittsburgh is trading a defensive responsible centre for a lacklustre offensive player who can’t defend anything.

Chiarot is getting a 1st from any team that gets him - it starts there or there is no talks.

No way pens trade Blueger. They just signed him this offseason to a pretty reasonable and team friendly 3 year deal.

It’s rare to even see Centers traded. I know Eichel just got dealt but that’s rare(not comparing Blueger to Eichel either). It’s usually Wings and D-men.

100000%

There's no way in a million years the Pens make that trade.

Blueger is one of the best 4C's in the league, if not the best 4C in the league.

Lightning 28th or so against Mtl 3rd which would be 65 are not that far away , sir .
Lekhonen should fetch a 1st , or a very interesting prospect . He's not to sell at all price .
Cost controlled player have value .

I'm not sure how many people on this board actually pay attention to advanced stats, but every legit analytics guy is on Twitter right just tearing down Chiarot and exposing how terrible he actually is. He's not just bad. He's bottom of the league bad.

Lehkonen is not getting a 1st straight up.

since when has the cap ever stopped tampa.

chiarot isn't getting 1st?

Ya, I agree. 2.2M is very reasonable and team friendly. Hopefully he’s back in the line-up soon.

Yup. Not to mention he's a PK stud and can handle 3C pretty seamlessly. I think we're still looking at another three or four weeks which stinks because this schedule is getting tough.

Caufield for Dekeyser

You're that tin foil hat dude who thinks the league conspires with TB

is it really that difficult to admit your team used a loophole.

will see body .. this come from insider .

That I can deal with. Did they cheat no.Did the league turn a blind eye no. I call it being smarter than everyone else. When Kucherov got injured in November did the have him try to "rehab' so to set the timeline perfectly. 2 players in the previous seasons had the same surgery so yeah they followed the rules

Inside your bum

sure. just coincidence he came back the same day the cap no longer applied.

No it wasn't a coincidence they knew the recovery time line being after 18 playoffs Gourde had the same surgery as did Point after the 19 playoffs. They knew the recovery timeline and had Kucherov delay surgery to fit it.

right down the exact day! boy did they get lucky it wasn't a week sooner and they would have had to clear out like $7m in space.

Since they have $850K in cap space at the deadline and you have them taking on $1.55M in cap.

There’s been multiple teams linked to Chiarot and multiple reports stating he’ll get a 1st - when more teams are interested, the price is higher. Savage got a 1st last season, Chiarot will be around the same value

its $1.15m not $1.55m and lehky would be replacing a 750k player so its only another 450k in cap.

They had about a week between end of season and game 1 but hey tell yourself what you need. Final regular season game 5/10 first playoff game 5/16.

That they don't have unless someone is LTIR and you (even TB) can't just LTIR guys because they just want to.

exactly the point. they got lucky he wasn't ready for that game.