Kyle Dubas

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

NHL free agency opens in mere hours. However, absolutely no needle movers are available. Due to this, the NHL is experiencing one of the first true offseason trade booms of our lifetimes. Teams have little reason to spend big today, and historically it’s been a terrible way to build a team. The only real way...

The NHL may have just experienced its craziest day in recent memory, and if you’ve been following Penguins trade rumors, things are about to get real. About a decade ago we got the famous 1-for-1 deals involving Larsson for Hall and Subban for Weber but yesterday may have been even more explosive. Many pundits have...

Holy shit, do we have a great final on our hands. Both games were incredible theatre. Both games were one by one goal with the most recent game reaching OT. So far, this series has been everything you could ask for as a hockey fan. Oh, and a Dylan Larkin trade request just came out...

During the season ending presser, GM Kyle Dubas spoke extensively about the team getting younger. He also spoke about the team acquiring someone of elite talent in the mid 20s age range. For the latter, we have spoken about a few players who fit that category (i.e. Jason Robertson). The Pittsburgh Penguins prospects developing in...

The Pittsburgh Penguins offseason 2026 started to take shape a couple days ago when GM and POHO Kyle Dubas gave his season-ending presser to local media. For the TLDR people here is quick summary: The biggest talking point to come out of the Dubas presser was that he would love to have Evgeni Malkin back...

The Kyle Dubas press conference everyone’s been waiting for finally happened. Outside of signing Connor Dewar and Ilya Solovyov, all has been quiet on the Penguins front since losing game 6 in overtime. Wilkes Barre and Wheeling have both been blazing through their respective playoff series which has generated some buzz for potential prospects eventually...

On Friday, the Penguins locker room cleanout in Cranberry took place, and outside of Edmonton, I think this was the most interesting cleanout day across the league. Several storylines came out of the player sessions with the media, and we’re going to get into the ones that matter. Ben Kindel’s first season came to a...

What an absolutely perfect video from the Penguins PR staff last night. Moments after the Penguins defeated the New Jersey Devils by a score of 5-2 the Penguins put out this video: All year the team has been asked about the script that was seemingly pre-written about them. Every period of sustained success early in...

On Monday and Tuesday, the Penguins in the thick of a playoff run had two huge games against teams in the thick of the race with them. The Penguins rifled in a total of 13 goals and largely dominated both the Islanders and Red Wings. Dubas had his hands all over the blueprint of those...

Evgeni Malkin is back, but his team never wavered without him. His addition only helped ignite an already potent offense. During Geno’s five game suspension the Penguins went 2-1-2. Goals weren’t hard to come by during that stretch either. Three of those games were during the team’s most brutal road-trip. Before the season, people looked...

Angry Geno is typically the best version of Geno. Think the slapshot breakaway goal against the Flyers all those years ago. Dubas might have been trying to unlock this version of Geno when he stalled, maybe balked, contract extension talks. What Dubas may have forgot to factor in is that Angry Geno is also prone...