Dimitri Filipovich

So I think that infrastructure is going to be there.

I'm curious to see if they promote any more young guys the way they did with Ben Kindle this season and add some more kind of next generation talent onto their roster.

And then what they're going to do because we know Kyle Dubas is going to be active.

No GM has made more trades than he has over the past calendar year.

And so I'm fascinated to see what that looks like in a trade market that should be

pretty rich considering how kind of barren the unrestricted free agent pool is.

Well, they have so much cap space moving forward as well.

Cause pretty much I think Carlson is going to be expiring after this season.

Beyond him and Crosby, you get into that mid-tier contract range of Raquel and Rust and veterans like that.

But they have so much kind of blank canvas ahead of them.

And so I really want to see what they do to kind of fill that, how aggressive they are.

I think they could still kind of continue this sort of

arbitrage approach they've taken almost treating players like stocks where you are absorbing some of these contracts that are viewed as negative ones based on their current production trying to rebuild them trade them down the road again potentially get usage out of them in the meantime and so I imagine they're going to explore that route and be very active and I think ultimately like if you take a step back I know the optics of this series are very disappointing losing to your rival flyers in a series you entered as a pretty heavy favorite by a lot of models but

Yet, if you told me at the start of the season that the Penguins were going to be one of the highest scoring teams in the league and also going to make the playoffs, I'd be like, I don't care how it ends.

That's a positive.

Yeah, if they got swept, I think it would look a lot bleak.

I know, and I know they got shut out in game six, losing at the end of the first overtime, but it did feel like they, certainly I think they got blindsided the first couple games by the neutral zone structure defensively from a Rick Taka team and what the Flyers were doing to force turnovers and then counter with odd man rush opportunities.

It felt like they kind of settled in as the series went along and played much more defensively

similar to how they did in the regular season and ultimately were what one goal away from forcing a game seven at home.

And so maybe that's a, a very glass half full interpretation of how that series played out.