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Benefits Of Free Agency Essay

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We are less than 90 days Away from hockey and that famous puck drop but what will we do to pass the time as we nervously await the chance at a season where at the end we get to raise the famous cup. Well for me free agency is a big part of how I pass the time so without a further to do here are my first impressions about free agency and why you should be excited for the home opener in the Consol Energy Center come October. Free agency has been a whiz of rumors and big moves. Cap stricken the penguins have not been able to spend like they have in previous summers but that certainly did not stop Jim Rutherford from making a splash this offseason pulling off one of the bigger trades in recent memory. Yes, Jim moved James Neal to the predators for Patric hornqvist and Nick Spaling and not saying anything bad about them but this is Phil Kessel. One of the top 5 scorers in the league and has not missed …show more content…

In return, Pittsburgh acquired TylerBiggs a big bodied winger prospect along with Phil Kessel along with D man Tim Erixon along with the draft pick we traded to the leafs for David Winnik last march. Along with this block buster deal Rutherford has been using whatever cap room we had left to flesh out the rest of this year’s roster. My favorite and most exciting piece to this year’s roster has to be Sergei Plotnikov a big bodied Russian winger who lit it up in the KHL. I love his eagerness and wanting to join the penguins as he paid 500,000 dollars to buy out his KHL contract to join us stateside. Him playing on a line with Geno like he did at the Olympics along with whatever winger they stick on the right side will be money all day long. Rutherford also did well with replenishing the stock pile of depth forwards and defenseman with cheap signings

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