GDT: #24 | Flames @ Penguins (Letang activated!)| 7:00 EST

[Ugene Magic]

The decision is easy.

Dumo, Tang
MP, Marino
JJ, Riikola

 

[Ugene Magic]

Right-handed vs left-handed.

Some HCs are dogmatic with that stuff.

That didn't stop him last year. Or the year before.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Letang's going to score within the first 10 minutes. The Flames are going to score with less than 5 to go. We're gonna lose in OT because we put some garbage like Simon-ZAR-Trotman out.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

That didn't stop him last year. Or the year before.

Maybe he caught Babcockitis.this year.

 

[vodeni]

The decision is easy.

Dumo, Tang
MP, Marino
JJ, Riikola

Marino Dumo
Lettang pets
Trottman JJ

 

[Ugene Magic]

Maybe he caught Babcockitis.this year.

If he did they'd be drinking Long Island teas together right now watching the games with us simple folk.

 

[madinsomniac]

I've been a Sully defender since I got here, and there have been more than enough opportunities to defend the guy on this forum, believe me. But Trotman (or Ruhwedel) over Riikola is just absurdly incorrect when it comes to personnel decisions. I don't care if you want to spin it that it's a handedness thing, or a LD/RD thing. Riikola with a field hockey stick is better than those two.

Sometimes coaches have to be saved from themselves... if a coach is overplaying guys sometime the GM has to strip the options away...

 

[66-30-33]

How did we get McCann for Brass? Lol!

 

[ColePens]

6 shots for McCann wow

 

[CrosbyMalkin]

Only four teams have fewer power play goals than the Pens.

Makes sense when Pens have not had all PP best players together in any full game this season. All pass judgement on the PP when everyone gets healthy. When you are missing Malkin, Crosby, Letang, and Hornqvist are all key PP players and all have missed almost half the games so far.

How about Galchenyuk! Last 6 games has 6 points and a +3 and never a minus in any of those games. I think he is breaking out like Kahun did. Galchenyuk actually took less time to break out because it took Kahun 11 games with only 2 assists before he has been on a point a game since but it only took 9 games for Galchenyuk. I said let's give him until the New Year but people on these boards are so reactionary. Galchenyuk has been one of his teams top 3 point producers the last 4 years and has averaged being a 20 goal 50 point guy since he has been 20 years old. This is why arm chair GM's should keep mouth zipped instead of making snap judgements after small sample sizes whether good or bad.

 

[ColePens]

Yucky pinch Marino. I think that may be his first mistake in a loooooong time.

 

[Kristopher Letang]

How did we get McCann for Brass? Lol!

Bjug Ahhhhh jokes on you!

 

[Ugene Magic]

Marino Dumo
Lettang pets
Trottman JJ

That's like spinning around a stick and trying to write the pairings.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

How did we get McCann for Brass? Lol!

The Panthers wanted as much free space as possible to go after Bob and Panarin, so they traded quality for expiring contracts.

The sort of thing we're going to need to try and find again if/when we move Galchenyuk and Schultz. Find a team willing to give us quality that's signed for a while so they can get an expiring contract to make a run at Hall or something.

 

[Harvey Birdman]

Marino Dumo
Lettang pets
Trottman JJ

I’m really high on Marino. Think he has the full ability to take JS’s workload when he walks in the off season. But this isn’t just Marino’s first NHL season this is his first pro season period. You don’t put guys like that on the top pair and ride them unless you literally have no one else. Let him sit back on the 2nd pair. Depending on how he or Shultz are playing shuffle them between the 2nd and 3rd pairs and let him develop. Defensemen have a notoriously long development curve. And he’s ahead of where he should be, but that doesn’t mean throw him to the wolves and lessen Letang when healthy. Let him hang back and continue to develop properly and we may have gotten a solid steal in that trade. Kid looks to have too 2-3 dman potential, don’t f*** it up by rushing him.

 

[ColePens]

Lucic outspeeds Trotman. Lulz. Please stop playing Trotman

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Lucic outspeeds Trotman. Lulz. Please stop playing Trotman

Shades of Hartnell/Pouliot.

 

[66-30-33]

Bjug Ahhhhh jokes on you!

Juges on me I guess.

 

[66-30-33]

The Panthers wanted as much free space as possible to go after Bob and Panarin, so they traded quality for expiring contracts.

The sort of thing we're going to need to try and find again if/when we move Galchenyuk and Schultz. Find a team willing to give us quality that's signed for a while so they can get an expiring contract to make a run at Hall or something.

Hall will cost too much for us. Get Wood and a Dman for Marino.

 

[ColePens]

Another disrupted play that Trotman CANNOT make. 2 now on this shift. He has to step up.

 

[ColePens]

Riiko is so much better than Trotman. He steps up and has speed to do so. Trotman backs off even worse than JJ does. It's so bad.

 

[BillPrep]

Another disrupted play that Trotman CANNOT make. 2 now on this shift. He has to step up.

Id kinda rather he got sat down...

 

[ColePens]

I honestly think Ruh is better than Trotman so the RH/LH isn't an argument

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Hall will cost too much for us.

I'm saying the team we trade our pieces to will want them because their contracts are expiring at the end of the season, and they'll have open space to make a run at Hall.

 

[JTG]

It seems like Jarry's pads don't slide as much as other goalies' pads. When he pushes off it looks like he sticks.