The Penguins aren’t just a bad team.
They aren’t just a terrible team.
They are a horrific team.
They are as poorly assembled as a team can be.
Just up and down the roster almost everything is a mistake.
I’m a Pens hater, but like most rational people, I can respect Crosby.
He’s one of the best players these eyes will ever see.
However, he’s on a dog shit team going absolutely nowhere.
….So they have to trade him.
They just have to.
You always hear about how “sports is a business”.
Holding onto Crosby does the Penguins a disservice and there’s truly no denying that.
That’s the Penguins current situation with Crosby.
In theory, the Pens cannot trade him.
He’s the heart and soul of the franchise.
Maybe even of the city.
He’s done everything and more for the Penguins and city of Pittsburgh.
But unfortunately for them, that’s why they have to move him.
He can’t do anything more for them.
The team will be a basement dweller for the foreseeable future, with or without him.
But by moving him they can climb out of the basement much quicker.
That’s just how it works it sports and we’ve seen it a million times over.
Trading Sid would be devastating to the fan base.
Seats would be empty.
It would have an immediate impact on the Penguins bottom line.
But overall it would become a net-positive.
The assets they could get in return for Sid would jump-start a rebuild.
That’s just the fact of the matter.
If I was a Penguins fan I would probably be against it.
I would hate to see my savior in another team’s sweater.
It would kill me as a fan.
But I’d have to at least understand it.
Star players get traded all the time.
The Bruins famously traded Ray Bourque to the Avs so he could win a Cup.
It’s different, but we just saw Luka get traded.
I don’t think Sid would “demand” a trade.
He’s too classy of a broad.
But if I’m the Penguins, I do it.
Well, maybe get rid of your stupid GM first, hire someone competent, and then do it.
