Penguins Officially Get Screwed to Acquire Ponikarovsky
Luca Caputi (47pts in 54 AHL games this season, 21 years old) AND Martin Skoula who Toronto will then flip tomorrow to another team.
Caputi is their #1 prospect at this point in time.
For 2 months of Panikarovsky.
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MarioD
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If Pitt wins the cup again, Im sure they wont care what becomes of him.
"NO HONOR"
"We will steal the show, jolly Rogers go, we are wolves of the sea."
Until they are back in bankruptcy four years from now because they’ve now traded a top prospect and a 2nd round pick for two rental players this week.
I think they’re milking this defending champ business for all it’s worth, for as long as they can. No way will they be able to hold on to Malkin AND Crosby for their entire careers.
I think they will follow a similar trajectory as the early 1990s Cup teams did. They’ll be competitive for a while now, and they’ll get one more Cup in (at least). Then, second-round-exits a-plenty + a depleting farm system…
They’re going to be tough to beat this year though, no question.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
I would have done it in a heartbeat. Capuit may be good in the NHL someday but he is still a 4th rounder and AHL success means very little anymore. And Skoula is a completely nonsensical entity that they would have probably waived anyway seeing as he is baked as a player. Strike when the iron is hot and I trust Shero implicitly until he is proven stupid.
I’m more persuaded by the fact that Caputi is their top prospect and their second best prospect is still in juniors than I am by where he was drafted.
They wanted to trade Skoula for a pick to soften the blow of giving up their 2nd for Leopold, but couldn’t do it. Not sure Toronto will be able to trade him either, but it sees that Shero thought he could trade Skoula when he made the Leopold deal and then couldn’t.
Skoula was a non-factor in the trade, just a salary dump. I agree that Caputi was a HUGE loss to their prospects list – but he’s just that, a prospect. In Ponikarovsky the Pens get a winger that should fit very well on a line with Malkin and Rusty Fedotenko. Alexei has some scoring touch, a BIG body in front of the net (6’-4", 220 lbs), and was a plus-5 on a really rotten Toronto team because of his ability to backcheck. Personally, I think Shero did the right thing; no reason to hold onto a prospect when you could be adding a key part to a drive for the Cup. Which would YOU rather have, Flyers fans? A great farm system, or a Stanley Cup????
you guys won already which makes it easier to take but we been there done that with giving up the farm system, the big splashes at the deadline don’t guarantee anything, you didn’t when with Hossa but smaller deals for Guerin and Kunitz
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