Well activity was promised, and thus far the team has delivered.
From the airport in Edmonton (literally) Shuck has signed off on the first two deals as he starts to remodel the Penguins franchise.
The first deal was a 7 player deal, largely of crap for crap with the Flyers, as the team sent Ian White, Vyacheslav Kozlov and Ian Laperriere to the Flyers. In exchange the team picked up deadweight Miroslav Satan and Mathieu Schneider, as well as 2 positive assets in Andrej Sekera, and Michael Vernace.
"Basically we signed off on trading White for Sekera and Vernace. The rest were just contracts and cap filler. We like Sekera, think he brings a good dimension to our roster and he is young and cheap. Vernace is a tweener, but he has some upside still." Shuck said as he announced the deal.
In the second deal, the Penguins shipped Matt Carkner and Steve Sullivan to the Islanders for Darroll Powe and Davis Drewiske.
"This was a great trade for the organization. First off, we dump Sullivans contract, and the long term commitment to Carkner, so right off the bat we are ahead. But we add a good NHL role player in Darroll Powe who has some skill, and we picked up Drewiske who is a legitimate NHL dman and still is developing."
Trades are expected to come fast and furious out of the Pengiuns organization this week. Expect to not be able to recognize the roster very, very soon. Even now 1/4 of the starting roster has been shipped in under 24 hours.
And a big domino falls as the team sends Matt Moulson, Akim Aliu, Ben Hanowski and Zach Hamill to Chicago in return for Wojtek Wolski and Ryan O'Reilly.
In - Andrew Cogliano, Ryan O'Reilly, Wojtek Wolski, Miro Satan, Mathieu Schneider, Mike Vernace, Darroll Powe, Davis Drewiske Out - Ian Laperriere, Ian White, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Matt Carkner, Steve Sullivan, Matt Moulson, Akim Aliu, Ben Hanowski, Zach Hamill, Jay Barriball
The first saw the team ship Ivan Vishnevskiy, Ben Bishop and Andre Petterson to the Flames in exchange for Matt Hackett and a 6th round pick. Hackett is a player who has played spectacularily in the AHL as a 20 year old, and becomes the goaltender of the future for Pittsburgh.
The second saw possibly the highest cap figures ever moved in 1 BRHL2 trade as the team sent Michael Ryder, Kevin Bieksa, Jamie Langenbrunner, Nikolai Khabibulin, Todd Marchant, Robyn Regehr (23.64mil) to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Nicklas Lidstrom, Pavel Kubina, Tim Brent, Ray Emery, Justin Peters (23.655mil.
Basically we traded 6 overpaid deals (5 of which extend past this season) for Lidstroms deal which expires this year. Kubinas bad deal, a flier on Ray Emery, and 2 assets in Justin Peters and Tim Brent. All in all 47.295 million of contracts moved in the deal.
