Moves coming in Pittsburgh?

 Penguins fire sale is coming?

Hey guys and welcome back to another blog post, in today's article we are looking at the Pittsburgh Penguins as it sounds like a fire sale is very, very close in Pittsburgh and we keep on hearing more and more about how trades could start in the very near future for Pittsburgh. 

Now we talked about this in a recent YouTube video how the Penguins were looking at a fire sale, Well, now it seems like this could potentially blow up soon as according to Elliott Friedman on a recent radio hit he was doing, he says that this has the potential to be a fire sale very very quickly, so we've heard a lot of talk about who could potentially be moved and it sounds like basically everyone except for Sydney Crosby and who knows, maybe even Sydney Crosby could get moved because he's in the final year of his deal and a player who was supposed to sign an extension before the season started and still hasn't signed his extension, so it's an interesting situation to watch out for, but forget Crosby for a second because I would still lean to him staying with the Penguins, but you got basically everyone else on the roster except for maybe some of the younger players available. 

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First up would be Rust who we've heard a whole bunch about, Rakell we heard a whole bunch about, both guys making just over $5 million signed for this year, and next year, both have proven in the past to be very good goal scorers as I believe both have put up 30 goal seasons and with both being signed for a extra year, they could help a team for 2 playoff runs and not just one, so it sounds like both those two guys are very heavily in play. Then you got Erik Karlsson who could also be in play, he is in the final year of his deal making a $10 million AAV, now it would be a very difficult cap hit to move, but I think there would be a ton of teams out there who would love an offensive minded top four defenseman as a rental. Also Karlsson has no trade clause so he can decide where he wants to go and it is completely up to him but if this gets worse I think he would welcome a trade. 

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Apparently there has been some recent reports that Malkin is preparing to give a three team trade list to the Pittsburgh Penguins per his contract, so it sounds like Malkin could potentially get moved, so a lot of recent speculation has been could Malkin go to Minnesota as we talked a lot about Detroit and Larkin for the Wild, but Malkin to  Minnesota makes some sense, now I think It would cost a lot less to go after Malkin than it would to go after Larkin and it seems that the Wings already don't want Minnesota's package so once again, I think it would cost like a first round pick and a pretty solid prospect so maybe a first and prospect Stramel for Malkin I think could be really good for the Wild and Malkin has connections to Bill Guerin, his former teammate from Pittsburgh and that's sort of the thing that the Wild had been missing, I know he's not the premier topline center that they've been looking for, but a top two punch down the middle of Malkin and Eriksson Ek down the middle in the playoffs could win you a Stanley Cup. So yeah, that could be a potential option for Minnesota, but it seems like Malkin's going to give a three team trade list to the Pittsburgh Penguins. 

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Then we also have some Pending UFA's like Girard's a pending UFA but a solid 2nd pair offensive minded defensemen, Brazeau's a pending UFAwho could be a solid 3rd line depth scorer for teams and you got Kuzmenko who is also in the final year of his deal too and hasn't fit in great in Pittsburgh but I think could still work in a team's middle six. So those guys all make some sense to potentially get moved, too. 

So we'll have to wait and see, but it seems like a fire sale in Pittsburgh is about to go down and if they cannot get back on track, I think Dubas maybe gives it until like the Thanksgiving break, if they are still heavily out of the playoff spot by Thanksgiving, I think we will start to see Pittsburgh make some moves. So, we'll have to wait and see on that but that is my thoughts on the Penguins potentially starting a fire sale, but I would love to hear your thoughts below, Is Pittsburgh close to a fire sale and if so who do you guys think will be the first guy moved, let me know in the comments below, don't forget to check out my YouTube Channel as well and I hope you all have a good day, god bless you and see you soon.