Penguins Post Season Moves

With the Flyers 2nd round exit tonight to the New Jersey Devils, I’ve been left wondering what Ray Shero might have up his sleeve this off season for our Pittsburgh Penguins. Unfortunately we may not be able to keep everyone from last years roster, but that might not be a bad thing in all cases either. I think when we got Martin and Michalek, they were considered the #s 2 and 3 available free agent defenseman at the deadline.  It was a huge get for us.  They are our two top-paid defenseman, at a decent price vs. market, and they’re locked in for a few more years.  Martin is this year’s press/fans scapegoat.  Maybe he’s getting old.  I’m not sure what happened to these two, really.  The fans will call for a move or two (Martin, then Michalek), but I’m not as quick there.  First, and I say this a lot for a lot of life situations, if you ditch your prom date you’d better have a prettier girl waiting for you to ask her out.  Yes, we have some young kids, but are they as good/better than what they would replace, or are they just cheaper and green grass on the other side?  Plus, if someone is selling something — they must have a reason.  If somebody puts something on eBay, you’d better find out why before you buy it — other GMs aren’t stupid and will see/have seen the same thing Shero and the press/media has seen, if their stock has really gone down that much.