One key point of the off-season plan that Kyle Dubas shared Friday was “weaponizing” the Penguins’ favorable salary cap situation to acquire players from teams who will be struggling with yet another year of virtually no movement in the NHL’s salary cap.
That’s smart business and something we profiled as possible here in May before Dubas was even hired to come to Pittsburgh. With the flurry of activity about to begin next week when the league gets together in Nashville for the draft and face-to-face talks often lead to trades being made, let’s re-investigate some trade targets based on the latest information and current situations that make sense.