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I'm not making the trade unless we have an extension in place

Does he want a raise from 9?

You're gonna have to hurry and beat this arbitration hearing...I don't exactly know the rules with club-elected salary arb off hand because it's so rare...but there might be limitations on what can be done and what can be done before Jan 1...

Semantics. My fantasy world doesn't go this deep

Well, sometimes

So they’re embracing the takeover now?

Apparently

Officially over the cap

Kap*

How appropriate. Kap puts them over the cap.

I've got hot new numbers, boys...

Archibald - 15
T.Smith - 24
Poehling - 25
Petry - 26
Tokarski - 40
Rutta - 44

Somewhere, a Brooks Orpik fan boy weeps.

Let's play a dog days of summer game...normal caveats about not cheating, as this information is easy to google...challenge yourself, don't be a nimby...

Last Penguins to wear a number:
#15:
2017-2019, 122 GP: ________________
2012-2014, 115 GP: ________________
2008-2014, 100 GP: ________________
2008-2009, 22 GP: _________________ (faceoff guru)
2005-2006, 15 GP, 0 pts: ____________ (famously invisible)

#24:
2019-2020, 50 GP: _______________ (curiously out of the league)
2016-2017, 12 GP: _______________ (37 career GP and not someone we developed...good luck)
2014-2016, 14 GP: _______________ (29 PIMs, 0 pts)
Then Matt Cooke, Kris Beech v2.0, Cornelius, and pinnacle 90's Massachusetts man Ian Moran.

#25:
2015-2017, 17 GP: _______________ (led the league in PIMs before we got him)
2013-2015, 33 GP: _______________ (generic quad-A player)
2009-2013, 45 GP: _______________ (famously, never got to eat...)

#26:
Good god...the only players that played more than one season in this jersey are Fedotenko (2 years) and Kent Manderville (1 season, + 4 games of another). Other than that: Michael Chaput, Andrew Agozzino, Daniel Winnik, Mark Arcobello, Steve Sullivan, Eric Tangradi again, Ronald Petrovicky, Landon Wilson, Frantisek Kucera, Kasparaitis (? he wore 26 in '97? I don't recall this), Dave McLlwain, Richard Park...finally Mike Stapleton played two seasons in that number in 1993-94. It's not a popular number since Syl Apps wore it for like 8 years in the 70's...

#44:
2018-2020, 26 GP: _________________ (It felt like way more games than that...somehow got another $16 million to play)
2014-2015, 7 GP: __________________ (Uhh...I thought he was gonna be better when he played at North Dakota...another player that Washington propped up after we were done.)

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Effective way to guess:

#25-1: Maxime Talbot
#44-2: Oskar Sundqvist

That would be the most recent slot on 25; the bottom/second slot in 44.

Guesses

#15-3 #15-4 #24-2 #44-1

#15-1 #15-2
I am confident in my 15 answers 100%

#25-3

This game is unplayable in this manner

#24-1
#44-2

#26:
Good god...the only players that played more than one season in this jersey are Fedotenko (2 years) and Kent Manderville (1 season, + 4 games of another). Other than that: Michael Chaput, Andrew Agozzino, Daniel Winnik, Mark Arcobello, Steve Sullivan, Eric Tangradi again, Ronald Petrovicky, Landon Wilson, Frantisek Kucera, Kasparaitis (? he wore 26 in '97? I don't recall this)

Kasparaitis only wore it for a game or two before they gave him 11. I have an autographed picture of him with a 26 jersey.

Excellent tidbit, Prince. Thank you.

Nice guesses guys, mr25 mopped up pretty well...

Answers and minor commentary:

I didn't 'like' him but I bought an Andrew Ebbett practice jersey because it was number 25. I ran the Lemieux 6.6k wearing it one year. When I first came to hockey in the early '90s Kevin Stevens was my favorite player.

Damnit I should have had Farnham and Ebbett. Probably Sestito too. I never in a billion years would have gotten Nordgren... I kept running through those guys and the only names I could come up with were Kolanos and Guillaume Lefebvre.

Interesting note on Levebvre:

29 GP from 01-03 with flyers and pens
---2 years 0gp---
9 GP in 05-06 with the pens
---3 years 0gp---
1GP in 09-10 (!!!) With the bruins

Aaaand TIL Krys Kolanos had 0GP with the pens

Time is a dodint.