10 Players to Watch at the Trade Deadline
by Stros Bro on Jan 29, 2009 8:59 PM EST
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Atlanta's Colby Armstrong has attracted interest this season, including from Pittsburgh who would like to see him reunited with Penguins captain Sidney Crosby.
I'd take Army back in an instant... I'd be willing to give Satan away for him and not think twice about it. Colby doesn't really fill the need for a scoring winger to play with Sid, but he does bring a lot of what the Pens need.. and I miss those huge checks!
Pittsburgh defenseman Ryan Whitney's name is making the rounds. Pens GM Ray Shero may use Whitney to lure a top line forward for a late-season charge.
I'd hate to see Whitney go... I'd rather the Pens put a deal together sending Boucher and maybe a Gill or Eaton away than to see Whitney dealt... I don't want to see the Pens deal Whitney, Scuderi, Letang, Goli, Orpik or Gonchar. I like them and think they all bring a need to the team.
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GoGo hasn’t played much and I fear that may potentially make him bait right around the deadline. I’d hate to see him go because I think he has a lot of potential.
Armstrong? Meh, I liked him but didn’t love him when he was with Pitt. He was just your average winger who somehow played tremendously alongside Sid. If they do make a move for him it’ll be the second consecutive year the Pens and Thrashers worked out a deal. Weird.
Whitney isn’t playing up to par and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s sent packing. But as critical as I am about him I definitely think he came into his own a bit out of it. During the offseason when a lot of guys are training and building themselves up bigger than the previous year, Whitney went under the knife. It could be a conditioning thing, but he also failed to really produce last season. Tough call.
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by FrankD on Jan 29, 2009 9:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I’m not sure about Whitney. I wasn’t all that impressed with him last year. But he definitely makes a difference when he’s in the lineup. There is no one on the team, save Gonchar, that can break the team out of the defensive zone like Whitney can.
I can’t remember what game it was, but it was his 1st or 2nd back, where he had 4 or 5 passes that lead to breakaways or 2 on 1s. That’s just an intangible.
by JDMaker1 on Jan 30, 2009 12:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That’s a good point. But as a defenseman his physical play is minimal and his offensive production is subpar. I think he’s entirely capable of doing much more but he’s just failing to come through when they need him. At least he’s not taking stupid penalties though.
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by FrankD on Jan 30, 2009 6:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Sykora pointed that out in his interview with the Czech newspaper.
by PensFan024 on Jan 30, 2009 9:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And what do you think we’d get back for Boucher and Eaton or Gill? That’s at least $4.5M in cap space that someone would have to take for one defenseman who’s just hanging on at this point and then one of two players, one of whom has had injury problems this year and is getting on in age (Gill) and one who has had sketchy defense until recently this season (Eaton). I wouldn’t expect anything but a depth player and a mid-round pick for that, given the financial albatross we’d be asking the other team to take.
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by JustinM on Jan 30, 2009 9:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Agreed, Boucher and Eaton are about useless, especially considering what a young, puck-moving defensemen like Letang, Goligoski or Whitney could bring back. I think the Penguins would only dangle on of their good trading chips (probably preferring to deal Goose) for a skilled winger with a reasonable contract.
The logjam (if all stay healthy when Gonchar returns) is going to force some kind of movement….Gonchar, Orpik, Whitney, Letang, Scuderi and Gill would be my playing lineup…But even that leaves out Goligoski.
I think, unfortunately, the writing is on the wall that #13 might be the odd man out. Oh well, having too many good young defensemen is a nice problem to have—but it’s still something to deal with.
by Hooks Orpik on Jan 30, 2009 12:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
At that point you just have to hope the ones you hold onto mature and the ones you let go don’t turn into Nick Lidstroms.
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by FrankD on Jan 30, 2009 12:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think they need to trade for a locker room guy like they did when they picked up Roberts. Army could be that guy.
by PensFan024 on Jan 30, 2009 9:09 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think if they’re going to locker room guy it has to be a vet, personally. I mean – you can have a guy like Colby keep morale up, but when you get to the playoffs you need a Gary Roberts/Mark Recchi sort of guy
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by FrankD on Jan 30, 2009 9:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Your probably right, but unfortuneately those guys aren’t on anyone’s radar. Well…except for the GMs that is.
by PensFan024 on Jan 30, 2009 1:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh trust me, I wasn’t hinting that we should grab them. Recchi can’t be happy with Pitt after last season and Roberts has already mentioned he’s done after this one. I guess if anything guy who can fit their mold.
Of course if you tried to construct someone else out of the Gary Roberts mold it would probably implode. That’s how we got the Grand Canyon.
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by FrankD on Jan 30, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I didn’t mean specifically those two guys on the radar. I meant guys like them.
by PensFan024 on Jan 30, 2009 2:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Gotcha, gotcha.
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by FrankD on Jan 30, 2009 3:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
why on earth would they trade Whitney?
Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.
by bren on Jan 30, 2009 10:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Value, Logjam of defensemen, subpar production so far
although Whitney has looked better recently
by Stros Bro on Jan 31, 2009 12:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think Goligoski makes a lot of sense to trade. You can’t trade Letang, he’d still be a potential piece, and you wouldn’t get the value he is worth. Whitney would move, but he’s not going for upside. He’d be traded for what he does, and I don’t think we would get equal value for him because of his stats.
Also Army coming back would make sense, he hasn’t become a valuable piece in Atlanta, and we need an Army/Malone type guy for this team.
Sadly I haven’t heard many names out there this year that yell out “trade for me, I’ll score goals on Sid’s wing” like Hossa last year. Then again I’d trade Satan for the rights to François Leroux. That’s just addition by subtraction; and awesome pre-season fights.
by Phantaskippy on Feb 8, 2009 1:27 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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