The Pittsburgh Penguins have time to make decisions to keep or trade Stuart Skinner and Brett Kulak
NHL Network: Elliotte Friedman on NHL Now he is asked about the Pittsburgh Penguins and what they will do with newly acquired goaltender Stuart Skinner and defenseman Brett Kulak.
Kevin Weekes: “What about Pittsburgh? This has changed the calculus because they’ve had a better season than we all thought they would have to their credit. Dan Muse is doing a great job.”
And considering Skinner’s acquisition here, is this rent, considering he’s on an expiring contract? For example, do they see this as a rental contract for them, or in your opinion do they want to re-register him?
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Friedman: “I think, I think Kevin, we’ll let that play out and see how it goes. Remember, they have four goalies.”
Weekes: “Exactly, yes.”
Friedman: “Like they still have (Arturs) Silovs. They still have (Sergei) Murashov and they still have (Joel) Blomqvist. And I know they really like the two young guys. I mean, you know, you know goalies better than I do. I wouldn’t say I’m on the same level as you with them. So you can decide what you think about these guys, but they still have a lot of guys.”
And also Kulak’s, I think Kulak’s is a really good player. He had a tough year. He gets a reset. He gets the chance to try something different.
You know, I remember Kyle Dubas went out last year, and he traded for Luke Schenn from Nashville, in the Michael-bunting-Tommy Novak deal. And the moment he made that deal, and acknowledged that that deal was getting closer to the deadline, his phone was ringing like, what are you doing with Luke Schenn. So I have no doubt that Duba’s phone will ring. You know, what are you doing with Skinner? What are you doing with Kulak? What are you thinking here?
… But what do you do with it, what do you do with Skinner? What are you doing with Kulak? And then Dubas can make his decisions. Does he want to keep them? Does he want to turn them over? He has time to figure this out.
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But you know what Dubas thinks. He thinks that even though we have a good start here and we are in the race, we still need to get a little younger and still collect assets. So I think with him you have to be prepared for anything.
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