Feel free to provide examples of a team that is trying to compete deciding to trade away their cheap 2 time all star goalie firmly in his prime for futures and scraps.

not sure you can say the pens are trying to compete if malkin and letang walk

Look these are my two favorite teams. I'm from Pittsburgh but I've been to many games in Pepsi center (none since it changed to ball arena.....dang covid). I am not being biased here. As long as the pens have Crosby they are trying to compete. The new team ownership has said this many times. They just re signed rust to a huge deal.
They aren't giving up jarry for futures lol.

As a fan of both teams I truly hope they end up sending Crosby to Colorado at the end of his career so sid and Mack can win a cup together.

avs can't be a favorite team of yours if you're suggesting newhook/byram for jarry. you would know how lopsided that is.

Okay pal.
When you provide an example of a team that is trying to compete making a trade like OP suggested then I'll continue this argument. Otherwise it just shows how biased you are being and how much of a waste of time this debate is lmao.

didn't the canucks do it a few times. carolina just traded ned. vegas did it with fleury. pens kinda did it with fleury too. im sure theres more too but i dont know where to get a list of goalie trades.

I see holl getting an early 4th tbh but, management seems to like him so they might let him choose if there are a couple teams saying they want him

When the cancucks did it they got 9th overall. Next time they did it they got markstrom in return.
Pens, Vegas, and Carolina all did different trades when they had better and/ or cheaper options available already.

andersen, lehner, talbot, varly.

it's been done before.

Yup and all of those examples are from rebuilding teams. Which is not what the penguins are lmao. But okay.

lol. none of them are.