The NHL trade chatter picked up again around Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Alexander Nikishin, but it\u2019s not the Pittsburgh Penguins who are publicly named as the suitor. The San Jose Sharks opened their wallet and then backed up the Brinks truck to Macklin Celebrini, making him the highest-paid player in the game. Sportsnet projected which pending free agents could actually hit the market next summer, and the Wheeling Nailers did the Penguins one last solid. <\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to tell you that I had a great time at the Pirates game Wednesday and they looked good, but their bats were silent. At least Manny\u2019s loaded mac \u2018n cheese always hits the spot. So, instead of a story or anything interesting, I have an honest question. I haven\u2019t bought new furniture in a long time, but I needed a new couch. After shopping, why is every recliner, even couches, electric?<\/p>\n
What, the lever or leaning back was too difficult? Too affordable? So, instead of throwing out your feet, you have to wait 10 seconds to retract just to get up. Who thought this was progress?<\/p>\n
Today at 12:05 is presumably the last live chat and podcast. Today\u2019s title is Offseason Grade & Ask Dan Anything. Then we\u2019ll resume in September. Make sure you\u2019re following our YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s the end of old man yelling at clouds. To the hockey\u2026<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Hockey Now: The Wheeling Nailers did the Penguins one more favor when they traded prospect Gabriel D\u2019Aigle to the Florida Everblades. If you haven\u2019t been following the situation or just didn\u2019t want to\u2013here\u2019s the conclusion of the potential saga of the Penguins prospect<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Baseball Now: A lost opportunity or cold reality? A bad series returned the Pittsburgh Pirates to behind the wild-card Diamondbacks. Danny Demilio has the takeaways from the Pirates series<\/a>.<\/p>\n Steelers Now: Day 1 of training camp. I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re at that point of the summer already, and Alan Saunders has what you need to know from the start of Steelers training camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n NHL Trade Talk; News, & National Hockey Now<\/p>\n San Jose Hockey Now: Pow. Biff. Kaboom. The San Jose Sharks delivered a massive new contract to Macklin Celebrini. Five years at $18.8 million. That\u2019s the base details. Sheng Peng put it all in a big-picture perspective, and now the clock is ticking on GM Mike Grier and the Sharks rebuild<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sportsnet: The post-silly season silly season is to look ahead to the potential free agents next summer. We know Sidney Crosby and others won\u2019t hit the market, but which UFAs\u2013perhaps Jason Robertson?\u2013will get to free agency<\/a>?<\/p>\n Ottawa Citizen: This little tidbit might spur some trade rumors. Bruce Garrioch reports that sources are telling him that the Ottawa Senators and Drake Batherson are a mile apart on their contract talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n NHLtraderumors.me: Still available? Jeremy Rutherford reports that the St. Louis Blues have circled back to Carolina defenseman Alexander Nikishin and remain interested in snagging the young defenseman<\/a>.<\/p>\n NHL.com: Team reset. It\u2019s been a big summer for the Penguins\u2019 biggest rival as the Washington Capitals went on an acquisition spree, highlighted by Jordan Kyrou. Take a look at the summer take on the Capitals\u2019 offseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: alexander nikishin<\/a> macklin celebrini<\/a> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n Categorized:Links<\/a> NHL Trade Rumors<\/a> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL trade chatter picked up again around Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Alexander Nikishin, but it\u2019s not the Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66274,109008,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":["post-256016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alexander-nikishin","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}