Penguins Losing the Free Agent WAR

I’ve noticed several other Penguins sites have assigned grades or conducted polls to evaluate the team’s moves this summer. As always, you folks are more than welcome to share your opinions (thumbs up, down or otherwise) in the Comments section of our articles.

You pretty much know my thoughts already. Taken as a collective along with the Kevin Hayes trade, I think our key free-agent signings are a HUGE red flag. More to the point, a clear indication that POHO/GM Kyle Dubas has thrown in the towel on trying to ice a competitive team, instead weakening us on purpose in order to expedite a (dreaded) rebuild. With the coming season (and our Core Four ) offered up as sacrificial lambs.

Need a recent example? Take a good, hard look at the 2021-22 Blackhawks, who finished 28-42-12 despite the presence of franchise icons Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews and 40-goal man Alex DeBrincat.

That’s what we can reasonably expect.

Or worse.

As for those new acquisitions? As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.

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