The lucic rumor is interesting. Penguins clearly must have felt like they weren't "tough" enough last year- is the league trending back towards the heavy grinding style after a few years of favoring slick skill?
I went and looked at capfriendly- imo no one would approach us about Lucic without a caveat. But I can't really see an awful contract that the Penguins would want to unload. Maybe Zucker? He had a bad year but way more upside than Looch. Different player fit entirely. NMC as well, but there was a link to the flames a few years ago.
The other candidate is Marcus Pettersson. But I am not sure the penguins see that as a bad value contract given they signed it just last year and he had a relatively similar season this year.
I would be interested in a Pettersson- Lucic swap if there weren't many other pieces from our side involved.
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