Sullivan: Penguins not closing the door on re-signing Zucker
Mike Sullivan said he doesn’t think trading for Reilly Smith prohibits the Penguins from signing Jason Zucker. “I don’t think this deal means anything other than we added a good player that will make us a better team. I know Kyle (Dubas) has spoken to his agent. We’re certainly…
— Pens Inside Scoop (@PensInsideScoop) June 28, 2023
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I’m terrified to see the contract he could get, but there are certainly way worse of 2nd lines you can have than Zucker-Malkin-Smith.
If Sullivan pushes Rust to L3 to be the line carrier for that line, I actually won’t have any issue with re-signing Zucker to a reasonable deal.
“Jason, is 2x$5M good?”
“Not really.”
“Well, we tried.”
Guentz-Crosby-Raks, Zucker-Geno-Smith, Granlund-DOC-Rust. I’d love to see Granlund gone but even with him here this is a really solid top 9.