Official 08-09 Penguins Thread

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#1 Staal for Antropov is retarded. Antropov is a UFA this summer so there is a gamble of resigning him. Yes he is big but he plays soft…and he went for a 2nd round pick. Would you let Staal go for a 2nd rounder?

@smokeyburnouts

heres my only gripe about Shero…while i loved the Hossa deal last year, i thought alot of how he handled the team after that was poor tho. i like the re-signings, for sure. but he let alot of guys go and the new signings werent enough to make us a cup contender in my opinion. fedotenko basically took malones roster spot, which was an obvious downgrade. then in theory satan replaces hossa. i know no one was expecting satan to play 2-way hockey like hossa or put up identical numbers, but we saw satans numbers last year and shero thought it was just a down year and overpaid the guy and he didnt do all that great (tho i still like him, just not as the hossa replacement guy to play alongside sid). in doing-so, he passed on guys like Naslund, even Jagr and a few other guys that i felt wouldve been decent…or even couldve traded. but instead our hossa replacement is sent through ahl waivers and we get nothing and we get another guy that is obviously not long-term and not much of an upgrade, if at all. if we were gona just go after a guerrin type, then we might aswell just signed shannahan at the start of the season, as he plays similar to guerrin. where is this 1st line winger at? if sid signs for less money, then i think it should be a priority to get him a guy to play alongside, for the long-haul. not this rental shit(guerrin) or a somewhat of a half-assed attempt(satan). i know its just not that easy, but i honestly dont think it was handled as good as it couldve been either.

I can agree with a lot of what you say. Yes he didn’t get some of the players you mentioned…but who knows how the offers went. Maybe he did offer but the liked NY’s offer better. But yes this offseason was not what the fans expected. As for Shero getting Geurrin, yes it is a “band-aid” fix for this season. I would rather have him than Satan b/c of the grit factor but he far from any long term solution. What I do give him credit for this season is he didn’t give up anything really. I mean Geurrin was supposed to get traded to the Caps for a lot more than a 4-5th rounder. So I give him props got getting a good player for nothing that can help if we get into the playoffs. I think he realizes this offseason is huge for him this year and he needs to get a wing for Sid. He started getting what we need with Kunitz and Tangradi and hopefully this offseason he gets a scoring winger for Sid.