In Shero I trust

Yet another off season of losing key players to free agency and Ray Shero is still playing the calm, cool, collect card. Last year after the Stanley Cup Finals the pens lost Ryan Malone, Ty Conklin, jarko Ruutu, Gary Roberts, Adam Hall Georges Laraque and Marian Hossa. Those were 6 HUGE reasons why the pens made the cup finals(georges doesnt count). So who does ray bring in to replace them? Ruslan Fedotenko, Miro Satan, Matt Cooke and Eric Godard. 4 guys who dont have enough talent together to equal what hossa did for us.

At the beginning of the year the Pens Lost Whitney and Gonchar to injuries for half the season and it really put the pens into a tail spin. They had no one to run the PP, they had a rookie in gogo as their main break out dman along with Kris Letang. So shero did what needed to be done at the deadline for the second year in a row. He traded the down and out Ryan Whitney for hard nosed LW Chris Kunitz and Tough guy Eric Tangaradi who is looking to be a future top-6 forward on this team. He then traded a 3rd round pick for Bill Guerin to play RW with sid.

Now Satan was pretty useless thru out the season and ended up getting demoted at the trade deadline to make space for Guerin and spent the remainder of the regular season in Wilkse-bare.
Also Ruslan was having a pretty slumpy year and was moving around all the lines trying to get jump started. Sykora went 3 months with only scoring 5 goals entering the playoffs.I really felt bad for Malkin because every winger he had decided to take a nose dive sooner or later and it left him to do everything. Which is why its even more amazing he won the scoring title.

Once the playoffs rolled around Skyora ended up getting benched for Satan and who came in to play his best of the season while beating the living snot out of eaves in the ECF while scoring and setting up a couple big goals in the last 2 rounds. Ruslan wasnt a scoring machine but he scored massive goals when they were needed. So all 4 of Ray Sheros acquisitions played a major part in why the pens won the cup. The deal he made to get marian hossa last year is what got us into the finals. So why not give him the benefit of the doubt? Why must pens fans never be happy with what this man is doing and has done for us?

With the cap space the penguins have had to deal with Shero has done nothing that deserves anything but the upmost respect. With Crosby and Malkin makin 8.7 million, Gonchar 5 million, Staal 4 million, Fleury 5 million, hes has to fill 20 roster spots with just around 25 million dollars. What do you expect from this man? Hes not Jesus, he cant turn water into cap space. Untill the Penguins system is filled with talent at the wings we are going to see a revolving door at key positions. Untill we get some home grown talent up here and not have to sign free agents to crazy deals. Penguin fans are just going to have to get over not making room for superstar FA's, not even makin room for B listers. This team is going to be filled every year with the Ruslan Fedotenkos and Miro Satans. And you know what? Im fine with that. We won the Cup once with those guys, so why can we not do it again? If shero makes a mistake and sees it isnt working he'll make that yearly deal at the deadline that helps get us over the hump.