Kaplan’s latest NHL buzz: Guentzel’s future, Gauthier trade among hot topics
January 11, 2024
Kaplan’s latest NHL buzz: Guentzel’s future, Gauthier trade among hot topics
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Interesting article with a lot of fluff and not a lot of substance. I personally don’t see Jake getting traded and think he will be re-signed. The cap goes up a lot next season and the Pens have a lot of cap space. We will see what unfolds.
I don’t mean to be ill-informed, but what’s the point of trading Jake when we shot for Karlsson (outside of getting rid of bad contracts)?
Seems with him traded, we might as well start the rebuild now…which also doesn’t make sense for Crosby/Letang/Malkin’s deals.
This is Jake’s agent trying to get a deal done.
Trading him makes zero sense. Carters 3mil come off the books at the end of the year, that’s a fair amount of Jake’s raise right there. They did not commit to Karlson and the big three to trade their best winger for futures
The people that insist there’s no way Jake doesn’t re-sign have a fascinating world view. Just living your life flat out refusing the notion that anything bad could ever happen. Truly believing to your core that everything you want to happen is all that ever will. The anti-Murphy’s law. Must be nice.
I think Jake gets like $9.5M, which the money is there for. We have very little to sign going into next year, bottom pairing defensemen which we will have Ludvig again so it’s just adding 2 more bodies with POJ as an RFA certainly not due for a raise. The bigger issue will be replacing Ned, pretty clear we need to run a 1a 1b goalie situation so if Blomqvist is ready you go that route if not a capable backup is usually a pretty decent price tag or you take on significant risk.
Really comes down to staying well above .500 in the months of Jan and Feb. If you stay in the playoff hunt you can’t afford to trade him, if you find yourself behind the flyers isles and caps then you yeah you probably cash in and hope to get something close to nhl ready in return.
Imo, we could trade Guentzel and still find our way into the playoffs. Really depends how Dubas handles the trade deadline.
This may not be entirely similar, but in 1992 we traded Recchi, who had 33 goals on the season to that point, and Paul Coffey, who had 64 points to that point, for Tocchet and Kjell.
Now, I don’t think that trade had anything to do with moving expiring contracts and was mostly about getting tougher, but I think there’s probably good arguments that this opportunity could be used to retool and still make a shot at the playoffs.
Kyle Dubas: We’re going to trade/let go of Jake.
Sid: Over my dead body.
End of conversation.
Wasnt the story about Jake not so much the dollar value, but wanting to see, realistically, what the future of the Penguins was going to be looking like? I could see him being hesitant to sign an 8 year deal if there’s only a chance of us actually making the playoffs once or twice in that time span
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Interesting article with a lot of fluff and not a lot of substance. I personally don’t see Jake getting traded and think he will be re-signed. The cap goes up a lot next season and the Pens have a lot of cap space. We will see what unfolds.
I don’t mean to be ill-informed, but what’s the point of trading Jake when we shot for Karlsson (outside of getting rid of bad contracts)?
Seems with him traded, we might as well start the rebuild now…which also doesn’t make sense for Crosby/Letang/Malkin’s deals.
This is Jake’s agent trying to get a deal done.
Trading him makes zero sense. Carters 3mil come off the books at the end of the year, that’s a fair amount of Jake’s raise right there. They did not commit to Karlson and the big three to trade their best winger for futures
The people that insist there’s no way Jake doesn’t re-sign have a fascinating world view. Just living your life flat out refusing the notion that anything bad could ever happen. Truly believing to your core that everything you want to happen is all that ever will. The anti-Murphy’s law. Must be nice.
I think Jake gets like $9.5M, which the money is there for. We have very little to sign going into next year, bottom pairing defensemen which we will have Ludvig again so it’s just adding 2 more bodies with POJ as an RFA certainly not due for a raise. The bigger issue will be replacing Ned, pretty clear we need to run a 1a 1b goalie situation so if Blomqvist is ready you go that route if not a capable backup is usually a pretty decent price tag or you take on significant risk.
Really comes down to staying well above .500 in the months of Jan and Feb. If you stay in the playoff hunt you can’t afford to trade him, if you find yourself behind the flyers isles and caps then you yeah you probably cash in and hope to get something close to nhl ready in return.
Imo, we could trade Guentzel and still find our way into the playoffs. Really depends how Dubas handles the trade deadline.
This may not be entirely similar, but in 1992 we traded Recchi, who had 33 goals on the season to that point, and Paul Coffey, who had 64 points to that point, for Tocchet and Kjell.
Now, I don’t think that trade had anything to do with moving expiring contracts and was mostly about getting tougher, but I think there’s probably good arguments that this opportunity could be used to retool and still make a shot at the playoffs.
Kyle Dubas: We’re going to trade/let go of Jake.
Sid: Over my dead body.
End of conversation.
Wasnt the story about Jake not so much the dollar value, but wanting to see, realistically, what the future of the Penguins was going to be looking like? I could see him being hesitant to sign an 8 year deal if there’s only a chance of us actually making the playoffs once or twice in that time span