The Dubas Plan: Stockpile Draft Picks for Our Penguins

I can not tell a lie.

Well, actually, that’s not true. I can tell a lie. It just never works out very well when I do.

All silliness aside, I more or less pirated the idea for this article from Hooks Orpik over on Pensburgh, who does an excellent job of summing up our current collection of draft picks in his article, “Cody Glass trade highlights Penguins’ summer of “something for nothing.”

Hooks correctly identifies Kyle Dubas’ focus on acquiring draft capital, with all other concerns (such as genuinely improving the team) secondary or even tertiary. If a player such as Kevin Hayes or Cody Glass happen to come along as part the package…bonus.

Dubas has, indeed, added impressively to our…