slesh wrote:
X-pensfan wrote:
gr8daygo wrote:
X-pensfan wrote:
gr8daygo wrote:
X-pensfan wrote:
Aim for the top. Get Geno Malkin here.
Believe me, I live in Pitt... Ive seen Geno play plenty... I ABSOLUTELY love the big man... but what would it really take? The Pens certainly have the depth at C... but I fear it would cost to much, but i would love to see him in blue and gold...
A lot. Vanek+Kassian+Ennis+a couple of draft picks. Maybe a little bit less than that.
He's only like 22 or 23 still. It's not like you are dumping the entire future for Yashin. He's going to be an elite NHL player for a long, long time.
What is pittsburgh in most need of? C, RW, LW, D? Probably a winger to keep up with Sid?
The Penguins need a skilled guy in front of the net. A righty shot scoring threat. And a legitimate all-star caliber winger who actually prefers to play wing.
Vanek, Vanek, and Vanek.
And, the Penguins are absolute shit when it comes to drafting and developing NHL skilled forwards, and the Sabres suck at losing all of their dignity and tanking for top 2 overall picks. So, the Sabres get a top 2 overall pick in Malkin, and the Penguins get their future of skilled forwards already successfully drafted for them.
I am seriously liking this thought process Xpens.
Let me ask you, given the savings Pitt would get along with the Vanek contract, would they be open to adding from each side. Say a 2 player per team swap?
The reason I ask is, if a Vanek for Malkin swap is interesting, if Buffalo added another winger, say Stafford and a center to replace Malkin, say Connolly, along with Vanek, would Pittsburg entertain giving up lets say,
Alex Goligoski? A good D partner for Myers? Or is there other talent on the team that we can make a multi player trade for?
Just curious.
I think Goligoski is off the table, they would need him to work the point on the power play more than ever with Malkin gone.
They already have a second line center in Jordan Staal, and if they didn't want him as their long term second line center they would have moved him to wing instead of Geno. They want and NEED wingers, now and for years to come. Crosby can't be happy playing with the likes of Armstrong, Kunitz, Dupuis, and Guerin for the vast majority of his young career. I'm not a mind reader, but my thinking is that he wants to run away with scoring titles, not play out of his mind to finish second every year.
They Penguins will trade Malkin, it might not happen this season or even next season but some day it's going to happen. IF they chose to trade him now his value would be at it's peak and the Penguins would have all of the leverage. Which means, the GM that deals with Ray Shero will be doing a lot of the listening and not much talking. It would be one of those epic mega-deals that is associated with a GM for the rest of his career and beyond.