Penguins

Kovacevic: No more mortgaging, please

Brief and to the Point ...

Ray Shero deserves every bit of the biting criticism he generally hears for the black hole that is the Penguins' pool of youth. He drafted terribly, and he dealt away the few prospects he actually procured as if they were playing cards.

Jim Rutherford might well win General Manager of the Millennium for the Rob Scuderi/Trevor Daley trade alone, but he's been equally guilty in this regard. In his far briefer tenure, he's already wasted a first-round pick on David Perron, a second-rounder on Daniel Winnik, and he included top prospect Kasperi Kapanen and a conditional 2016 first-rounder in the Phil Kessel trade.

At some point, it's got to stop. And that point should be now.

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