Dubas has his hands full to improve a Penguins team that looks an awful lot like it did during the last two seasons.
The Penguins (44 points) are 18-20-8, ranking sixth in the Metropolitan Division and seventh in the Eastern Conference wild-card race. They trail the Columbus Blue Jackets, owners of the second wild-card berth, by four points in the standings.
Although the Pittsburgh Penguins have improved after a ghastly start to the 2024-25 National Hockey League campaign, the team is again mired in a brutal stretch of seven losses in eight games. And the plan remains for general manager Kyle Dubas to sell ahead of the March 7 NHL Trade Deadline,
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A recent report revealed by Elliotte Friedman has shockingly stated that several people in the Penguins front office were not happy at all when Dubas signed Jarry to that monstrous contract. "EF heard Jarry will report the AHL and also says some personnel within the org weren't a fan of that contract being signed."
Tristan Jarry inked the richest deal for a goalie in Penguins history before last season, and now it's been revealed that some were against the move from the outset.
Buried within Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas’s impromptu press conference at the front of the Penguins locker room at their practice facility in Cranberry were a couple of nuggets that cut to the heart of the situation and goalie Tristan Jarry’s future with the organization.
Let's take a look at what big decisions face Kyle Dubas, Mike Sullivan and the Penguins over the next couple of weeks.
Dubas has been attempting to reshape the Penguins' roster by adding youth and trading away veterans like Jake Guentzel, Rielly Smith and Lars Eller. He could be forced to do more of the same moving forward. Pittsburgh Penguins reporter Josh Yohe was asked about how Dubas will handle star defenseman Erik Karlsson 's potential trade.
As it stands, the Penguins are in fourth-to-last place in the Eastern Conference and carry a goal differential of minus-36. It's a Penguins season that is on pace to be the worst since Sidney Crosby's rookie year in 2005-06.
After a long stretch with not much success, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced that they are placing starting goalie Tristan Jarry on waivers. The Penguins have
NHL insider Frank Seravalli wrote a scathing indictment of Kyle Dubas today after the Penguins general manager made a big move. The Pittsburgh Penguins have been a team stuck in limbo for a couple of years now.