{"id":581306,"date":"2026-04-02T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581306\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:31:08","slug":"dubas-cruz-lucius-wont-be-signing-with-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581306\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubas: Cruz Lucius won\u2019t be signing with Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve met with Cruz and his representatives from Newport Sports a number of times. And I think just right after the trade deadline, they informed us that he was not going to be signing in Pittsburgh for a few reasons. That it\u2019s up to him to share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a personal thing for him. But obviously, we felt we had a great opportunity for him. And obviously, the proof is in the pudding on the development side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBut players are entitled to make their decision. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019re at the position here anymore where we have to beg people to come. So when it comes to his decision making on it, then I think passing up a chance to get into the American League and developing here over.. (he) would have been a month already now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">But obviously, the next few months and it\u2019s, especially when your (college) team doesn\u2019t qualify for anything, it\u2019s a big miss. But that\u2019s his decision and his right. And we\u2019ll just move on to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve met with Cruz and his representatives from Newport Sports a number of times. And I think just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,44,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-581306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}