Report: NHLer owner publicly rips Penguins general manager.

Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos is not afraid to share his opinion and on Thursday he shared his thoughts on a rather strange topic, the general manager of another team. Karmanos tore into Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford for the way he has handled the Penguins since taking over as general manager. On the Penguins’ win-now approach:

"Pittsburgh has no first-round picks anymore. They traded their first-round pick from the year before. They traded their first-round pick for this year, and now they’ve traded their first-round pick for next year. But they have Kessel, who may score as many goals as, uh, Alex Semin did (six). And I don’t have to take credit for that."

It's rare to see an owner so publicly criticize a general manager, and even rarer to criticize one that isn't on his team, but Karmanos wasn't done there, he believes the Penguins may not care because they want to win now and then sell.

"I think they’ll sell that team for between $700 and $800 million in Pittsburgh, and the cupboard will be pretty bare by that time."

Rutherford for his part has yet to respond to these comments.