The Lions' Pride

Agree ... he did very well in the Staal deal. The guy has the uncanny ability to maximize his assets - except Michalek, which was a total salary dump. Yandle wouldn't have made sense for Pittsburgh, even though he is very good. The Pens have 50,000 puck moving defensemen. I'm doubting any report that had Yandle coming or almost being a Penguin.

Even if they dump Martin, getting both Parise and Suter, if that is even possible, would be a mistake. One or the other.

IMO, Shero will move one or two of these puck moving Dman prospects in larger deals, ala Goligoski. He is collecting a huge commodity in which people pay alot in return. Remember, Letang is going to be a free agent after 2013-2014. Unless the cap is a 85 million, or you sign Parise and Suter to four year deals, Letang won't be back after that year.

The goalie was also a reach. Most had him rated around the 10th goalie in the draft and they took him as the third goalie. Could have traded down for him almost certainly.

Crosby to sign 12-13 yr deal for over 100m. Now lets get Parise and/or Suter.

I think it was a good move for the city of Pittsburgh and the Penguins future to have him secure for the haul. I am hoping his concussion/head injury is behind him and he finally has a full off-season without having to deal with the issue. I think once they realized it was a neck issue that was causing a lot of his problems, that might've provided a lot of different solutions than he was getting.

Still, I am happy. If we can somehow keep Malkin and have 2 100m players on this team, we have a nice setup going on.

I believe in Ray Shero and the current ownership.

Saving money for bigger moves Shavi, patience.

I watched the Blackhawks Stanley Cup winner against him this morning.. Terrible. You're a professional goalie, that can't go in

Yep. I'm hearing 12/100+. I heard it's well over 80 and well above other teams' offers. Snider and Homer know what they want and apparently know what they can afford. Interesting.......

Right. I get that but there is a cap and the Flyers only have about 13mil free right now. If they both were to agree to 9mil+ cap hits we have some serious gymnastics to go through. Pronger's contract can't come off until the season starts which hurts as well. There have been whispers of potential clauses in the new CBA including an amnesty provision and a home-grown player provision. My only thought is that maybe Homer/Snider know these will indeed happen and are planning to amnesty Pronger and exempt a contract like Couturier with the home-grown clause. Who knows...obviously they know what they are doing. Part of me sees this like last year with Stamkos. The flyers played ball but never seemed in it to win. It could just be a power play to excite fans and make it clear they are willing to go for it whether they end up with the players or not. Not gonna lie though, Parise and Hartsy centered by G would be one dirty top line.

I would really want Suter on the Flyers over Parise. Defense is what I am more concerned about. Maybe trade for Bobby Ryan as well. Also I still don't get why the Penguins want Parise so bad, I think that the Flyers/Pens series proved that both teams were not that great defensively.

I will by no means want to trade Couturier. I think the kid can be the next Ron Francis. I thought this before Jagr. The kid was considered the #1 pick for a reason.

Only way I'm ok with a Bobby Ryan deal is if we can get it done w/o Couturier or B Schenn. I think Mezz, Voracek and or Read gets it done but even that is a TON to give up. Voracek was very underrated last year and is still just 22.

Agree, defense has to be our top priority. But trading for Bobby Ryan would be a bad idea, it would take Couturier and possibly Schenn from what I've heard, which I would hate to see. I think both of them have the potential to be better than Ryan anyway, and pretty soon at that.

Yeah, that's what based my opinions on him. I actually loved his play in the playoffs.