Équipe: 2022-23 Penguins de Pittsburgh

Date de création initiale: 18 juin 2022

Publié: 18 juin 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Marino to columbus makes a lot of sense for a few reasons in my opinion. Columbus already has a 1st round pick ahead of this one (and I believe they had 3 last year) so they could get someone there and get marino who would be a guaranteed good player, his floor is higher than anyone who they would be drafting. In this retool columbus is drafting so many prospects that it would be nice to have a player where you know what you are getting and can contribute right away. Marino would be a great partner and distributor for Werenski and would allow Boqvist to play 2nd pairing so as to not rush his development. This would be assuming they take Gauthier or some other forward with their first pick. Pitt may not want to trade marino in division but perhaps the benefit outweighs this risk in managements opinion.

This trade is good for pitt because it allows them to get Mateychuk without giving up 21OA. A common trade on here is between ottawa and pitt and it is 7th OA for Marino + 21 OA so I figured when acquiring 12th OA pitt would not be required to move 21 OA (12 OA, and this trade, were specifically chosen not to give NYI the chance to get mateychuk at 13).

Now just the question of who to take at 21? You probably want a center. Jiri Kulich being wishful thinking and Nathan Gaucher being the more likely option. Rutger McGroarty is also intriguing if managment decides none of the centers are worth taking,

They could bring heinen back to play where nylander is but I think they might let one of the WBS kids (puustinen, nylander,poulin) compete for a roster spot, with O'connor/zohorna being automatically given a seperate spot.

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