Got rolling on this in the comments of the other post with some of the fan backlash, or at least hesitancy on endorsing the Penguins trade yesterday being as they gave up a 2nd round pick in 2017 to the Carolina Hurricanes for defenseman Ron Hainsey.
Now, understandably, there's nothing sexy about adding a soon-to-be 36-year old defensive defenseman who's best served on the third pair. That's not a guy who's going to single-handedly make a team in the playoffs. However, given the Penguins injuries to Olli Maatta and Trevor Daley (both out six weeks) plus the uncertainty around Justin Schultz (recovering from concussion and seems to play soon, hopefully the worst is behind) plus Kris Letang (now day-to-day with injury) it makes sense to add to the defense still.