Bill Guerin and Craig Adams respectively signed one and two year contract extensions with the Penguins and GM Ray Shero today. With the signings complete, the Pens now have $50,493,000 committed to 17 players on one-way deals. That leaves Shero with $6,307,000 to spend on a backup goalie, top six winger, sixth and seventh defensemen, and a fourth line-caliber forward.
Guerin took a massive pay cut from his last deal which payed him 4.5 million dollars all the way down to two million flat on his new one. Adams' took a 500K reduction, and his new yearly salary is 550K per year over two years.
To fill the remaining positions on the team, restricted free agent defenseman Ben Lovejoy will almost certainly be on the roster come opening night, as will young centerman Dustin Jeffrey. RFA John Curry is very much in the running to back up Marc-Andre Fleury.
Most likely, one or none of Ruslan Fedotenko and Rob Scuderi will be brought back to fill another one of the spots, either top six winger for Fedotenko or bottom pairing defenseman for Scuderi.
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I always thought we would have let Adams go. Guess it's nice to have a good grinder like him on the team. The biggest question to me though is do we keep Tank? He stepped up during the playoffs, but I wonder how much money he's looking for.
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