GDT: #10 ⋅ ANA @ PIT ⋅ 4:00 PM PDT

[anezthes]

1 Dostál

vs

71 Malkin – 87 Crosby – 67 Rakell
10 O'Connor – 20 Eller – 48 Puustinen
13 Hayes – 46 Lizotte – 72 Beauvillier
8 Bunting – 19 Glass – 55 Acciari

24 Grzelcyk – 58 Letang
28 Pettersson – 65 Karlsson
27 Graves – 3 St. Ivany

30 Blomqvist​

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Season Series 2024–25

#1 ⋅ @ PIT ⋅ October 31, 7:00 PM EDT
#2 ⋅ @ ANA ⋅ January 23, 10:00 PM EST

Last year: 4-3 W (McTavish 2G, Dostál 33/35 .943), 0-2 L (Gibson 34/35 .972).

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Team Leaders 2024–25

P: 8 (Terry) vs 14 (Malkin)
G: 5 (Terry) vs 6 (Rakell)
A: 5 (McTavish) vs 11 (Malkin)
GAA: 2.00 (Dostál) vs 3.46 (Blomqvist)
SV%: .943 (Dostál) vs .909 (Blomqvist)

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Team Stats 2024–25

Record: 4-4-1 vs 3-7-1
GF: 21 vs 33
GF/GP: 2.33 (#30) vs 3.00 (#19)
GA: 25 vs 47
GA/GP: 2.78 (#6) vs 4.27 (#32)
PP: 13.8 (#28) vs 22.6 (#12)
PK: 75.0 (#22) vs 84.9 (#7)

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[hockey webcomics]

Best moment of last season and one of my fave goals.
I hope it happens again.

 

[Kalv]

 

[LuGBuG]

Tonight the lid comes off the Ketchup bottle and Zegras paints the ice with it. LETS GO. Would love to have more wins then losses at this point.

 

[Ducks]

Keep Z at C.

 

[SingDomestica]

Keep Z at C.

Keep D at G

 

[DavidBL]

So why us Pit struggling so much. They seem to be getting good production. Is goaltending their downfall or D? Or both?

 

[Terry Yake]

So why us Pit struggling so much. They seem to be getting good production. Is goaltending their downfall or D? Or both?

bad goaltending
bad coaching
no depth outside of crosby/malkin
karlsson/letang are old

 

[DavidBL]

bad goaltending
bad coaching
no depth outside of crosby/malkin
karlsson/letang are old

I mean rakell has like 8 pts in 11 games. Even Petterson has 6 pts. It doesn't feel like they don't have depth. Could be another Gibby opportunity though. That being said watching Reimer the other night not sure I want to trade him at the moment.

 

[JAHV]

So why us Pit struggling so much. They seem to be getting good production. Is goaltending their downfall or D? Or both?

Their goaltending is bad (.886 save percentage), but their defense is even worse. They're the only team giving up more 5-on-5 shots against than the Ducks. Karlsson has never been good at defending and he's older now, plus Letang has seemingly fallen off a cliff, Pettersson has taken a step back, and all of their forwards are like 50 years old.

So getting better goaltending would help, but it wouldn't be a cure-all.

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Their goaltending is bad (.886 save percentage), but their defense is even worse. They're the only team giving up more 5-on-5 shots against than the Ducks. Karlsson has never been good at defending and he's older now, plus Letang has seemingly fallen off a cliff, Pettersson has taken a step back, and all of their forwards are like 50 years old.

So getting better goaltending would help, but it wouldn't be a cure-all.

I've always felt like that having Karlsson on a team is almost like having an extra forward out there but one less defenseman. It makes Makar look even better given how he's good defensively.

Years ago Doug Wilson seemed to think that having Burns and Karlsson would do for them what Pronger and Niedermayer did for Anaheim except that Pronger and Niedermayer could defend at an elite level and still put up 60ish points. While Burns and Karlsson are giving up leads left and right.

 

[anezthes]

Previous GDT Team Leaders were fake news. Forgot that NHL.com listed "last 5 games" and not season totals. My spookiest apologies.

 

[GermanRocket7]

Their goaltending is bad (.886 save percentage), but their defense is even worse. They're the only team giving up more 5-on-5 shots against than the Ducks. Karlsson has never been good at defending and he's older now, plus Letang has seemingly fallen off a cliff, Pettersson has taken a step back, and all of their forwards are like 50 years old.

So getting better goaltending would help, but it wouldn't be a cure-all.

Watch them being gifted Gavin McKenna in '26 and/or Landon DuPont in '27.

 

[Static]

I remember Halloween night against Vancouver all those years ago. So many goals, so much entertainment.

 

[Ducks DVM]

There’s an amazing John Oliver bit about this

 

[anezthes]

I remember Halloween night against Vancouver all those years ago. So many goals, so much entertainment.

I thought you meant this:


But that was in January (2014).

 

[DarthYenik]

I was told by an Arizona Cardinals fan that being 4-4 was good. So being 4-4-1 must mean we’re slightly better than good. Let’s go!

 

[hockey webcomics]

karlsson is darned jinxed since he left ottawa
by then, he was expected to be "the next lidstrom"

i remember when san jose's gm said the team would go full rebuild mode and he said he wasn't aware of that until he read the news