Never mind the third and forth line guys, who could possibly replace the 66 points from Hossa, the 51 points from Ryan Malone, the combined 279 PIM from Georges Laraque and Jarkko Ruutu, and finally the leadership and 15 points in 38 games from Gary Roberts?
Apparently two former New York Islanders, fresh off their 25th place finish last season, are going to replace all the lost Penguins. Miroslav Satan and his 41 points and Ruslan Fedotenko and his 33 points are going to take the Penguins back to the Promised Land.
Let us not forget the Penguins also brought in former ninth round draft pick and unproven NHLer Janne Pesonen. His enigma of a season last year has prompted fans everywhere to jump back on the bandwagon.
Matt Cooke also signed with the Penguins and his 23 points and 91 PIM are a sub-par substitute for departed Ruutu.
Eric Godard will be taking the place of George Laraques, except Godard will only contribute one or two points compared to Laraques’ 20ish average points a season.
Bottom line is the players that the Penguins are bringing in are worse than the players that went out. Unless you really want to debate that Miroslav Satan and Fedotenko are better than Hossa and Malone? You can call me bias and stupid all you want, but the stats do not lie.
It is a simple equation that says to me: Unless the Penguins’ front office really thinks Sidney Crosby is good enough to take on an entire team with a couple other players, I would not expect to see the Penguins anywhere near the Stanley Cup this season.
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