Hey guys, welcome to double shot of Penguins.

I'm Dan Kovachovich. He's Chris Halleck.

And over there, remotely, just getting out of penguins practice is Taylor Haas.

And nothing to talk about today, right, everybody?

No, slow news day.

Slow news day. When did you find out seriously at practice? About the trade? I mean, happened a couple hours before practice. So, oh, okay. So were you at the rink yet? No, I was

trying to get ready to go to the ring. So it was a kind of a hectic morning.

Okay. Well, I can imagine. Yeah, because there was news at practice too between, well,

I'll let you, since you were there here, what all happened to practice in addition to the trade?

Yeah. I mean, Ricardo, Raquel activated for my hour. He's probably going to play tomorrow.

They didn't want to say either way. And then Matt Dumbas going on waivers because the trade

put them over the roster limit. He's on waivers right now. He's actually non-roster. If he

clears, he is going down. But they just needed to clear a roster spot and he lost out.

Well, Chris, yeah.

I'm not a Stewart-Skinner guy.

I don't know about you.

So let me, let me ask Taylor about this.

That's all I have on this subject.

Thanks, everybody.

So I wanted to ask Taylor about this because I obviously, when you look at like Tristan Jari's career, Stuart Skinner's career, everything, I think the big crux of this trade isn't necessarily the fact that you're trying to upgrade a goaltender, but it's mainly just because you want to clear the cap space and get that contract off the books. Is that kind of part of the plan here, Taylor?

Yeah.

Beyond this season, because the cap difference in this season is $20,000.

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