The Mikael Granlund trade leaves me wondering if Ron Hextall’s really for real.
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This team gives up infinite shots to good teams bc they cannot transition the puck. Hextall's solution is to trade the teams best defensive forward and replace him with a more expensive playmaker…. to play on the 3rd line….? Is this real?
Given Granlund's transition game is probably much better than Bluegers, but he is also making 3 million more and for two more seasons! The benefit the team gets here is not enough to justify the cap space they are using for it.
This team also continues to have THREE NHL caliber left handed defenseman on the roster and has one goalie that is made of glass with an AHL caliber back up. Glaring issues that needed to be addressed if they were actually serious about making a run. They didn't address any of them, likely couldn't, so instead they make a trade to make a trade…. and this trade might have just closed the window on Sid's 4th championship chances.
If Granlund is the trade, I would have rather just sold Zucker and Dumo and tried for a soft rebuild for next season. Now the Pens have 10 million sunk into Carter, Granlund, and McGinn for next season… that is a gigantic weight on the roster. What ever GM takes over this mess is going to have to try and unload this junk by giving a way assets to get bottom teams to take the contracts and then will have to try and rebuild through FA… that NEVER works for anyone.
Another thing people aren't really talking about is that Granlund is going to be getting third line minutes here and those 9 goals he has scored in Nashville are with 18+ minutes of ice time per game. His point production is WORSE than Kapanen's when you adjust for TOI. Kapanen is averaging one point every 27 minutes of ice time, Granlund one point every 30.
This is an absolute joke of a trade. Granlund isn't a terrible player in a vacuum (neither was Kapanen) but at 3.5 million Kapanen was and at 5 million Granlund is what is known as a nightmare.
Hextall needs to go. Shame on the ownership group for letting this continue.
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I think the answer to Hextall is to view this like you look at corporate america. Ineptitude abounds at the management level which includes upper management. I think it is as simple as Hextall = inept at his job. But then you think that someone inept must have hired this guy. I view this as being Similar to the Tomlin hiring Canada situation. It is said that coach Sullivan really wanted Chicryn (sp?)…hextall should have listened to people who know what they are talking about..I think Chicryn was just what this team needed and looks like they could have easily had him and I think he would have liked to be a Penguin.
Jt miller man jesus 100 points year. Is next year's draft stacked? Someone call lebron James beg for hextall nightmare to be finally over. It was a bad desperate move from the jump. It's like Rutherford took our mojo with him
I can't help but think this means the end for Zucker and grandlund is the replacement for the next few years. This shows hextall doesn't deserve a job anywhere. I loved grandlund back then but now it's a horrible deal and I can only think he plans on "fixing" the bottom 6 in the off-season
We all have to beg and hope that Granlund will raise his game…
Bring up ty smith
Thank you' thank you. thank you for the jo? I must need mental health treatment because I have been shouting this since we acquired Hextall and he has done nothing to prove me wrong he is and will bringing our PENS down!!! I will keep on saying it till proven otherwise!
Woof.
Everyone was begging for Brock Boeser and he only has 2 more points than Granlund. Another thing, Brock McGinn was moved to the minors for Drake Cagguila. There is no way in hell Cagguila can do as bad as McGinn was doing. Also, Kapanen who was doing absolutely nothing is also gone. I know Teddy Blueger was good on the penalty kill but the dude already lost his scoring touch at age 28. They swapped 3 bottom 6 forwards and everyone is complaining. What else do you people want? To trade Carter, Poehling, and Archibald. Ok maybe Heinen I get but who else? I mean seriously. I know Hextall isn't a great gm but I was willing to give him a chance if he made a little shakeup in the bottom six. I'd still like to maybe get Miller but that's looking unlikely. If one more major move is made for the deadline I am willing to give it a chance.
Someone in this organization please intervene. I know the damage is already done but get this Philly scum out of here. He is clearly sabotaging the team or he is just really dumb, either way I want him gone. This is laughable if you’re not a pens fan. Mario help!! Fire Hextall!!!!
When he was asked by FSG, “what is your plan,” and he couldn’t provide one; he should have been fired immediately! I’m over this assclown! #FireRonHextall
Hextall has left a wake of destruction from Philadelphia all the way to Pittsburgh. I like Granlund and I agree he would be a nice addition anywhere …. except here … in the current situation. Burke and Hextall are both miserably horrible at their jobs and …. never mind …. hopeless.
Won’t watch another game until hextall is fired. Unbelievable. Done
O’riley was the guy I was hoping the penguins would go all out for. He would have fit perfectly for the penguins. I think hextall has an issue with valuing his teams 2023 1st round pick so far ahead of what it’s worth.
I dont think Hextall has any idea what he's doing. I honestly believe this move was a hail mary hoping it works out to save his job. I think Hextall is gone after this season. I'll put money on it.
Really liked what Hextall was doing in the off-season. But he just f’d that all up in a couple of days. Man, this team is in shambles
For one, it's weird to hear you look forward to leaving the Pens and visiting the Bucs because of a management issue.
For two, if you're prone to think sabotage, did anyone feel the same way when Ted Simmons was the Bucs' GM in 1992? I, for one, thought he was still on the Cards' side…
How involved was Sullivan in this trade? I'm sure Hextall consults with him before making the deal but do we know if it was sully or Hextall that really pushed for it?
A lot of negatives on this trade. Only time will tell. I would have traded/waived Kapanen, traded DeSmith and Bleuger, kept McGinn, and upgraded the backup goalie. Then I would have had a stern talk with Jarry's conditioning coach.
Wtf. Hextall has to go. I said from the beginning this is why Philly kicked his ass out the door
Hextall is waisting the last years of Crosby and malkin. This guy is a joke.
I’m so confused right now… we moved Blueger and freed up cap space to trade for a 4th line center, a guy that makes as much as Evander Kane except he only contributed in 3% of his team’s wins, and Nashville didn’t have to retain a penny of his $5m contract?
Does Brian Burke have to approve these transactions or does Hextall just have free reign? If I was a GM i’d be licking my chops to make a deal with the Pens.
Hextall is just d..b m…n!
Maybe he is really Flyers sabotager for Pens, I dont know anymore LoL.. Nothing makes sense with this guy tbh.. One dumb move after another.
Who was #77 on the ice tonight? That line looked really good, the playmaking ability grandlund brings will be a joy to watch, the cap hit sucks but he brought something out of Carter we all thought was gone… That takes alot