GDT: #15 | Pens @ Carolina | Thurs, Nov 7th | 7:00 PM EST | Jerk Store Edition

[Honour Over Glory]

It’s funny if you look at the first 15 games of last season of teams that had 12pts.

Nashville went on a crazy run and made the playoffs - they were in a retool/rebuild, Trotz f***ed that all up this past summer, they were more of a fluke than anything,.

The other two - Wild and Oilers fired their coach to get that boost they needed with the voice going stale to the players and made the playoffs. Pens had 16pts and still missed with the same dipshit coach with the same dipshit system with the same dipshit usage. This year the Pens have better special teams which oddly enough Quinn I will give credit to for the powerplay and Vellucci is always money with the PK, but the head coach managing minutes and usage of the line-up lol, now he can’t use them as a scapegoat.

Seriously, Sullivan has no scapegoat unless he spins a narrative with FSG and their butt plugs Yohe and Rossi that Dubas failed Sullivan.




Also good on ya lad, Lizotte. JP was smart to throw the puck and Bunts crashing created the right amount of chaos.

 

[BillyOcean]

Love guys like 28? Year old blake lizzotte getting meaningless goals in a blowout game on a bad team. It's such a benefit for this non contending team to see Hayes and Lizzotte and Acciari get goals instead of young players.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

We wish…

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854706463450571099

Robinson has been good for the Canes, its like a coach that somehow knows how to use his line-up, would figure that out.

Robinson has 7pts in 12 games, he’s a player that has never passed 30pts in a single season. He had 2 goals in 40 games last year for Buffalo.

 

[Pancakes]

Heheheheh

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Love guys like 28? Year old blake lizzotte getting meaningless goals in a blowout game on a bad team. It's such a benefit for this non contending team to see Hayes and Lizzotte and Acciari get goals instead of young players.

I like Blake Lizotte, liked the signing but then they got Glass, Hayes, kept Acciari, Nieto was rumoured to be coming back this season and then it was like ok f***, way too many Sullivan types.

I see a lot of Kings games because of my brother and nephew, Lizotte is who you want as the 4c if Glass is going to be RW, he’s a great fit for Lizotte. At this point Blake should just keep busting his ass and be trade bait so he can get the f*** out of here as well at the TDL lol.

 

[Duffy13]

Rupp didn't have to carry on and finish that statement.... Letang doesn't think

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I like how that dipshit Rupp or Getzoff were like Roslovic was floating around and a good pick up, lol what? Roslovic has been a fantastic top 9 player for a while, he’s become a consistent 40+ point C/W and was on pace for it last season with 31pts in 59 games (43-44pt pace which is on par with his previous 2 seasons before he was moved to the Rangers).

I am definitely biased, been a huge fan since his draft and wished they’d get him from the Jets.

Rupp didn't have to carry on and finish that statement.... Letang doesn't think

The hardest decisions Letang makes each day is if he needs to condition his hair today or not and what outfit to wear to the game. At this point, his son is probably a smarter player than he is.

Heheheheh

The formula is always the same…


Pens either bust their ass in the first period and get a lead and then shit the bed half way through the 2nd and into the 3rd only to try for the last 5mins to either get it to OT and lose or lose in regulation.

Or they get their ass handed to them for 30mins, try for parts of the 2nd, then get owned for half of the 3rd and then try for the last 10mins to say look we tried!

I feel like it’s been this way for like 3+ seasons now.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I want Carolina to score 3 or 4 more. I want that piece of shit Gronk to have that Wings game type of performance against the Pens in the last 6mins to push it to 8-1 with his Hattrick and then set up 2 more to Robinson for his Hattrick and Roslovic scoring another to make it 11-1.

 

[Duffy13]

Poolparty needs to get a 5 gallon bucket and cut a section out for his face.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Lol over performing? Martin Necas has been a fantastic player for a while, the issue was he just needed more time to get it all together but he showed a shit ton of flashes of it. The roster needed him to be W/C for a while before they settled him into a stable role.

Necas is likely a +90pt player this season. A big help for him was the year he spent with Vellucci winning in Charlotte after coming from Europe straight to the NHL. Last 2 seasons though he’s been showing this ability.

For a while he was C and then RW, this season he’s been almost entirely a RW and looks comfortable. Sullivan would be confused by that sort of thing.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Poolparty needs to get a 5 gallon bucket and cut a section out for his face.

Sullivan is ruining how good Puljujarvi has been and the one bright spot we have other than Geno being back to his old self only to be the victim of Sullivan pulling the hot player off of Geno’s line to put with Sid, he took Rakell from him and then literally took him off his natural C spot to be wing…

THE YEAR MALKIN FINALLY LOOKS 100% HEALTHY AND HEALED FROM HIS KNEE SURGERIES AND OTHER SHIT.

That Hanumankind bloke, Indian lad, fantastic album but that song keeps getting over played and it’s not even the best one on his album.

 

[Pancakes]

You can tell this team is truly garbage and that everyone knows it because the GDTs are getting shorter and shorter lol.

Nobody has the energy to argue about Sullivan or Dubas any more. Just grim acceptance around here. Or people doing other stuff with their time.

 

[Duffy13]

Sullivan is ruining how good Puljujarvi has been and the one bright spot we have other than Geno being back to his old self only to be the victim of Sullivan pulling the hot player off of Geno’s line to put with Sid, he took Rakell from him and then literally took him off his natural C spot to be wing…

THE YEAR MALKIN FINALLY LOOKS 100% HEALTHY AND HEALED FROM HIS KNEE SURGERIES AND OTHER SHIT.

That Hanumankind bloke, Indian lad, fantastic album but that song keeps getting over played and it’s not even the best one on his album.

I've been a fan of Puljujarvi since he came into the league... He's a very easy person to cheer for. I hope he gets traded to a team that will use him properly.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

You can tell this team is truly garbage and that everyone knows it because the GDTs are getting shorter and shorter lol.

Nobody has the energy to argue about Sullivan or Dubas any more. Just grim acceptance around here. Or people doing other stuff with their time.

It’s less the team being garbage vs the team being coached like garbage because there’s bright spots on this team and even in the first 5 or so games it had a lot of bright spots with the depth scoring while Sid was a shit show and the powerplay wasn’t ass while the PK was solid, the system was absolute shit like usual with bleeding chances at an insane rate and playing nothing that resembled even a rudimentary defensive system.

The PK is still great, the powerplay is top 10, the coach still has no clue how to use his players and line-up, manage the bench and minutes, etc. That is where it’s harder for him to hide being Reirden, Recchi, Martin, Gonchar etc. This is 100% him ass naked and the Pens media is still protecting this f***wad to make you want to hate Karlsson instead as the scapegoat and Jarry is gone so they can’t use that angle anymore and even then the f***ing bloke was 1-1 lol.

Those of us that still care, we mad mate.

 

[Pancakes]

It’s less the team being garbage vs the team being coached like garbage because there’s bright spots on this team and even in the first 5 or so games it had a lot of bright spots with the depth scoring while Sid was a shit show and the powerplay wasn’t ass while the PK was solid, the system was absolute shit like usual with bleeding chances at an insane rate and playing nothing that resembled even a rudimentary defensive system.

The PK is still great, the powerplay is top 10, the coach still has no clue how to use his players and line-up, manage the bench and minutes, etc. That is where it’s harder for him to hide being Reirden, Recchi, Martin, Gonchar etc. This is 100% him ass naked and the Pens media is still protecting this f***wad to make you want to hate Karlsson instead as the scapegoat and Jarry is gone so they can’t use that angle anymore and even then the f***ing bloke was 1-1 lol.

Those of us that still care, we mad mate.

Man you sound more optimistic than me and I'm usually the one who the pessimists rage on for being optimistic around here .

Either way, I think everyone knows Sullivan isn't going anywhere and that's why there's not as much ranting in gdts/pgts as there was last year or the year before. There used to be some hope that he'd be gone. But now there's none.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I've been a fan of Puljujarvi since he came into the league... He's a very easy person to cheer for. I hope he gets traded to a team that will use him properly.

I always felt him being drafted by the Oilers was a career ender for him, thought he’d do a ton with Carolina but I didn’t know how bad his hips were, because his game didn’t lie that those hips were an issue and he was a great story last season and Sullivan still kept dicking him around.

Then this year, he had a rough start in camp and then quickly turned it around and has been fantastic as a whole and has 7pts in 10 games and Sullivan kept healthy scratching him after good games and still shits all over his usage.

They haven’t put the assist on Lizotte’s goal but that’s one that should be corrected.

1 goal, 6 assist in 12 games. He played 15+ tonight, that’s the most he’s ever played in 2yrs as a Penguin, lol, he was averaging 9:45 at ES and 10:54 TOI/G before this game, that’s how f***ing stupid Mike Sullivan is. JP is getting Puusty’d this season, Puljujarvi has the highest P/60 on this team and somehow he was healthy scratched for 3 games, lol…yet Beauvillier, Hayes, Acciari, Rust, etc all didn’t sit for even a game unless they’re hurt.

The roster this season showed it’s capable of more when Sullivan doesn’t use it like crap, it’s never been clearer than this season that Mike Sullivan is the problem and the media still hides from stating it.

 

[Duffy13]

I always felt him being drafted by the Oilers was a career ender for him, thought he’d do a ton with Carolina but I didn’t know how bad his hips were, because his game didn’t lie that those hips were an issue and he was a great story last season and Sullivan still kept dicking him around.

Then this year, he had a rough start in camp and then quickly turned it around and has been fantastic as a whole and has 7pts in 10 games and Sullivan kept healthy scratching him after good games and still shits all over his usage.

They haven’t put the assist on Lizotte’s goal but that’s one that should be corrected.

1 goal, 6 assist in 12 games. He played 15+ tonight, that’s the most he’s ever played in 2yrs as a Penguin, lol, he was averaging 9:45 at ES and 10:54 TOI/G before this game, that’s how f***ing stupid Mike Sullivan is. JP is getting Puusty’d this season, Puljujarvi has the highest P/60 on this team and somehow he was healthy scratched for 3 games, lol…yet Beauvillier, Hayes, Acciari, Rust, etc all didn’t sit for even a game unless they’re hurt.

The roster this season showed it’s capable of more when Sullivan doesn’t use it like crap, it’s never been clearer than this season that Mike Sullivan is the problem and the media still hides from stating it.

He's one of a very few on this team that has not had a bad game... The odd bad shift, but even those are rare and he's been incredibly reliable... Offense has historically been lower than hoped throughout his career, however, he's a solid solid player.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

He's one of a very few on this team that has not had a bad game... The odd bad shift, but even those are rare and he's been incredibly reliable... Offense has historically been lower than hoped throughout his career, however, he's a solid solid player.

That’s the thing Sullivan is awful at.

Sid, Geno, Letang, etc the veterans all get a chance to play through a bad shift. But the other players get punished for it.

Puljujarvi plays well, has a bad shift, but then gets benched for a bunch of shifts and then slowly gets back on the ice and now its in his head about his mistake and how the coach treats it and he plays cautious when he shouldn’t have to worry about that, mistakes are part of the game, you have to give them the time to play and make up for it and Sullivan has this weird idea of accountability for who gets that chance.

Because on this team:

Eller
Doc
Puustinen
Puljujarvi
Bunting
Hayes
Glass
Lizotte

All don’t get that chance.

Acciari
Crosby
Malkin - Hardly been an issue all season
Rust
Rakell - Doesn’t make many errors really
Beauvillier

These blokes can f*** up and still get great usage, lol.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

-edit- Whoops wrong thread.

 

[TheFamousFart]

Ned made sure his tradevalue is so low pens wont probably get rid of him either