[Trade] Penguins trade Perron and Clendening to Ducks for Carl Hagelin

[Trailer Fire]

Originally Posted by Hackey

Ya this trade made no sense to me. I wish the Flames could have been on this.

Then maybe Smid wouldn't have been out of commission for a year.

[The Original FFIV]

Originally Posted by crapshoot

As I recall it was all about bringing Lovejoy back to the Pens because he was so great in the room and everyone on the team adores him.That's some darn fine GM work right there.

Iirc depres had some maturity issues that put into question his effectiveness as a nhler so they weren't selling high. But still a bad deal no matter which way you slice it.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Go_Flames4ever

Or Jim Rutherford is just MacT-level bad as a GM

He told a reporter that he sees Perron as a 20 goal scorer, and Hagelin as a 15 goal scorer, but Hagelin had a better plus minus this year.

[BigTuna]

Rutherford needs to be fired ASAP. He's just horrible. How he's been a GM this long is a mystery to me.

Picking-up term in this deal makes no sense. And why he gave-up his first rounder for Perron last year makes no sense. The Pens are done.

[Wastedyouth]

?? Hagelin for Perron is a pretty good trade. Unsure why anyone would be lambasting this.

Yeah, Hagelin is having a rough year, but he is a very very good top 6 player. Perron, eeeeehhhh not so much.

Edit: Keep in mind I think Rutherford is a terrible GM.

[BigTuna]

There's no point in picking-up term is a main issue people have with it.

[Fire of the Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

?? Hagelin for Perron is a pretty good trade. Unsure why anyone would be lambasting this.

Yeah, Hagelin is having a rough year, but he is a very very good top 6 player. Perron, eeeeehhhh not so much.

Edit: Keep in mind I think Rutherford is a terrible GM.

Perron was much better before he went to Pittsburgh, I think you are selling him short. I fully expect Hagelin will have trouble meshing with the Pens as well, the most consistently and criminally overrated team in the league.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix

I fully expect Hagelin will have trouble meshing with the Pens as well, the most consistently and criminally overrated team in the league.

The Penguins? Overrated? But they have Crosby! And Malkin! And great wingers and defencemen like… like…

But they have Malkin! And Crosby! And a great goalie like… like…

Hey, look! There's Crosby! And isn't that Malkin over there?

[Vinny01]

Another puzzling move for the Penguins. Rutherford is destroying that team. Why pick up a struggling winger that hasn't scored 40pts in a season that has 3 years left at $4M for a couple of pending free agents

[Psytic]

We should of done Raymond for Perron

[BigTuna]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

Another puzzling move for the Penguins. Rutherford is destroying that team. Why pick up a struggling winger that hasn't scored 40pts in a season that has 3 years left at $4M for a couple of pending free agents

The reality is that you can find guys to replace a Hagelin on 1 year deals as UFA's every summer. This is just a terrible waste of cap space and does not even help them in anyway. They need to fix their defence.

[jeffman]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Too bad Rutherford wasn't running the Penguins when we were looking to trade Iginla.

"So Mr Feaster, how much 1st rounders do you want with that Derrick Pouliout?"

[Iceman57]

Originally Posted by crapshoot

As I recall it was all about bringing Lovejoy back to the Pens because he was so great in the room and everyone on the team adores him.That's some darn fine GM work right there.

think the Pens would go far as to say Ben is full of Love & Joy?