the hardest of passes to guentzel at 7x9

I think you have to trade Ullmark if you can this offseason, there's such a big need for goaltending and he really hasn't fallen that far from his Vezina season, still a very good 1A. It gives you more room to upgrade the D and find a center.

I think the Pens absolutely have to sign Guentzel, but I would love to have him.

Interesting why? I’m not for or against just saw his name circulating

I am not in the trade Ullmark camp. Run the tandem again (unless it falls completely on its face in playoffs then we can have a different talk) and Im not entertaining a C. I am upgrading wing or upgrading the D. E. Lindholm isn’t the guy and any trade will cost too much. If you run coyle/zacha and load up their wings it’s perfect. Or you load up the defense

three primary reasons:
1. age. he'll be 30 at the beginning of next season, and generally speaking sign seven years for a forward that age is a really bad idea, especially at $9M
2. the player - I think he's very good, but I don't think he's that 40 goal guy, I think he's the beneficiary of playing with crosby.
3. the fit. look at those wingers. LW is where you're investing your money? doesn't make much sense.

The 30 year old thing is fair. Don’t think it apply as much to smaller players that don’t bang a lot.

Product of Crosby also very fair could be would have to find his production without Crosby somewhere. Not sure where to find that

I’m not understanding how he doesn’t fit tho. Debrusk has shown he can play either side and is almost exclusively right side now. Marchand has 1 maybe 2 years left. LW is a need

the league has a salary cap. teams have limited assets. spending them on a position they don't need to is dumb. There's no need.

How do you see it as no need tho?

quite simple - look at the wingers.