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The Marc-Andre Fleury Hall of Fame case is going to become a MUCH bigger conversation soon, but Pittsburgh already got the easy part right. The Penguins announced that beloved goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury will be inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame, and obviously.. Flower belongs there. It’s quite the honor for Flower and much deserved....

We are really stretching for interesting NHL news at this point in August, but a Penguins trade offer nobody knew about just came across my desk. Most NHL teams post a behind the scenes of the draft process throughout the summer. Two days ago the Ottawa Senators did just that and it sparked an interesting...

We have already given our state of the union for the league’s offseason, and the NHL contract standoffs still sitting out there could change all of it. The grade was middling, but maybe the NHL has more in store for us. A few storylines remain and all could have large impacts to the league. Let’s...

After Ville Koivunen signed his monster, albeit bizarre, deal the Penguins forward logjam has even more questions than answers.. Even before the eight year extension handled out to Ville, I had already written a blog projecting the lineup which failed to include any of the prospects. It seems Dubas is intent of further muddying the...

Kyle Dubas has been somewhat busy the past week, re-signing Ville Koivunen and extending Tommy Novak. The Ville Koivunen contract is the one that’s going to make you spit out your coffee. We go through these signings in chronological order and start with Tommy Novak. Novak floated between third line winger and second line center...

Both 2026 NHL offer sheets got matched and not one player changed teams. All the talk was this summer was going to be insane. The free agent market lacked to the point that everyone needed to make trades to reach their goals. There were several high profile RFA’s on the market ripe for offer sheets....

Everybody wants to know one thing. Is the Celebrini contract bad for the Sharks? We have seen Leo Carlsson get a monster contract. We watched Bedard take less then he could have. Jason Robertson also signed for less than his market value, and he desired value. Celebrini, unlike the other players listed, was not an...

As one saga came to a close, another one may have just begun. The Columbus Blue Jackets have failed to lock up Adam Fantilli.I never considered an Adam Fantilli offer sheet a real possibility until recently. The Jackets signed their goaltender Jet Greaves to a 3 year 5 million extension which suddenly leaves them vulnerable....

Ultimately, Jason Robertson blinked before Jim Nill and the Dallas Stars. The talented winger singed yesterday with the Stars for only one season. The deal is worth 12 million dollars against the salary cap. The Jason Robertson contract answers one question this summer and opens about five more. This leaves a few doors open. First,...

We are mere days away from the conclusion of the Jason Robertson saga. Should Robertson actually make it to arbitration is there a logical pivot for Dubas and the Penguins, and could it actually be a Penguins Thomas Harley trade instead of the two names everybody keeps throwing out? I think many people would believe...

The Penguins Wheeling Nailers situation is the real story today, but first, as we slowly creep towards Jason Robertson’s arbitration date, not much has occurred in terms of player movement. Most of the players that elected to go to arbitration have reached a settlement outside of the court system. However, Robertson remains unsigned. I still...

Another quiet day throughout NHL circles yesterday, but the Penguins handled some important business, business that only means something if it sets up a Penguins Jason Robertson trade. Yesterday morning the Penguins signed recently acquired Nick Robertson to a 2-year deal worth 3.25 million per season. After the signing of Robertson, the Penguins are left...

It was an unusually quiet weekend in the NHL, but the Jason Robertson trade rumors are about to make up for all of it. Most people thought that the two looming offer sheets were holding up a lot of action. Teams wanted to see specifically how the Carlsson situation would play out before making moves...

The Dylan Larkin trade rumors just picked up a new team, and everyone’s treating it like a footnote, one more line added to a list, and it isn’t, not even close. Dallas has $10.6 million in cap space, and the guy they’d actually need that room for is Jason Robertson, who’s sitting in salary arbitration...

Many fans bemoan NHL GM’s for not signing young talent through the avenue of NHL offer sheets. However, many GM’s have responded with saying that offer sheets are a pointless endeavor. Offer sheets are matched over 90% of the time. So, I understand the GM’s who echo the statement about the pointlessness of attempting this...

The Penguins roster looks set. They avoided arbitration with almost all of their restricted free agents. Nick Robertson is the only surefire NHLer that has yet to sign a contract. Ville Koivunen is also awaiting a contract, or a trade, but he would need to have a hell of a training camp to make the...

I had just teed off on the 10th hole, not expecting the Leo Carlsson offer sheet news to blow up my phone until the holiday weekend had passed.. While walking down the fairway my phone began to ring endlessly. When I grabbed my phone, I looked down and saw a completely shocking piece of news....

Penguins free agency day one has come and gone The Penguins made a few signings, and an intriguing trade. No one notable left the roster and none of the RFA’s have signed a contract. Analytically, all of the signings look to be solid bets. Shea was allowed to walk, so too were Acciari and Clifton....