One of the questions that Penguins GM Ray Shero had to field most often this past summer was "Are you bringing Billy Guerin back?" Guerin had become a local folk hero of sorts in the Penguins march to the Stanley Cup in 2009 but was a free agent following last year's early playoff exit.
Shero never came out and said it in part because of the respect that Guerin had earned, but the team had moved on. Coaches and scouts had come to the conclusion that at age 39 Guerin was running on empty through the second half of last season and didn't fit a team in real need of scoring from its wingers.
Guerin spent the summer looking for work and agreed to a tryout with the Philadelphia Flyers. But the Pens judgment on him now seems spot on after he posted a single goal and was a horrid minus-four in a shellacking by the Buffalo Sabres the other night.
This morning the Flyers released Guerin.
Up in Toronto the guy who Pens fans worried most about losing got some bad news as well. Luca Caputi was shipped to the AHL this morning by the Toronto Maple Leafs. The former fourth round draft choice ...
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