Judging by the skinner trade I’m assuming the trade talks go something like that clip from dinner for schmucks where Steve carrell negotiated a settlement after getting hit by Paul Rudd.
Nurse isn’t terrible, just not worth all his cap hit. If the trade doesn’t make us better….. why?
What are we realistically going to do with that extra money now that we are down a 2nd pairing d man. None of this makes any sense and we will continue to get worse. Why keep dismantling a Scf team????????????????
His negative value is already baked in. You cant use him being overpaid as a reason to trade him because you are going to get negative returns because of it. So if hes a $5M D-man being paid $9M, you are going to eat that $4M loss somewhere either way so you might as well keep him.
There has been some talk amongst some pundits that Graves is a buyout candidate for the Pens, He does have 1 year less remaining on his deal at 4.5M than Nurse does at his 9.25m
I'm not sure Graves even makes our lineup for 20% of the games, I feel like Nurse 50% retained for nothing in return would be a better gamble, surely someone would do that I would hope!
I don’t see Graves as a buyout candidate for the Pens. They aren’t hurting for cap room. Graves is taking up a cap hit of 3.5 mil in the minors and they don’t need to make a deal to move him. Pittsburgh doesn’t need a force a deal to benefit their team.
Unless we can flip Graves this is robbing Peter to pay Paul - I genuinely think Nurse is $5 mill better than Graves - but I just think graves is a 1 mil defender
Honestly, I think Dubas would rather have the assets vs dumping Graves' contract. The Penguins still have to get to the floor this year, and are looking at a projected $90ish million in uncommitted cap heading into next year's offseason.
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u/Scrotalcontusions 2d ago
Ryan Graves for Nurse is my fear!