Quoting: pensfan21
I really hope FSG knows what they're doing. Everything I've heard about Hextall makes me very uneasy, but I'm willing to wait to fully judge until free agency. Everytime they ask him what's on his wishlist or wants to add he says "more cap space", which just sounds like excuses to not make a move. I hope I'm wrong though. I wouldn't be shocked at all if Miller is a Penguin before the draft. I'm fine with multiple different routes, all I want is to know were 100% comitting one way or the other. It seems like Hextall stays in the middle a lot between a rebuild and going all in. If he loses Malkin and Letang then dosen't want to sign big UFA's cause he's afraid of hurting a rebuild in 3 years and then proceeds to sign a bunch of McGinn's or Heinen's it's a huge failure imo. I hope FSG knows hockey.
miller to pitt just fits like a glove for so many reasons, but I think it will be very tough for Hextall to give up the first which would be a near requirement in a miller trade (the only way I could see it not being a requirement is that vancouver has been rumoured to be a team that wants to move up in the draft, so if we give them 2 2nds and a prospect then they could package that with their 1st and maybe one of their prospects to get into the top 10) . I could maybe see Hextall circling a couple guys (miroshnichenko for one please) and waiting until during the draft to pull the trigger if their handful of guys that they were praying to drop are not there.
Hextall catches a lot of slack for his bad moves, but gets no recognition for the good moves he has made. I am going to wait until the draft and FA to finalize my opinion on him.
Josh Yohe does exxcelent work. And his article today has a lot of people worried and a lot of people optimistic for differnet reasons. It had a lot of info. However, I think the one passage that everyone can agree is a major positive and agrees with what you and I have been saying in these comments is this one:
"I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Fenway Group isn’t interested in any kind of rebuild. This is an ownership group that wants to win right now. Expect plenty of transactions this summer."
This sounds like the aggresive attitude that would make a miller trade happen. How much say do burke/hextall have and how much do FSG have, it is impossible to say, but I hope whoever is making the final call on these decisions is going to be aggresive.