GDT: #3| Penguins at Toronto| Sat. Oct. 12 |7:00PM| SBA| NHLN, SN-PIT| Leper Messiah

[66-30-33]

Atleast if Blom sucks we can call him Bumqvist.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

1 goal on 14 shots.
Doesn't matter how you play elsewhere if you shoot like that all year.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Feels like it's gonna be 3-1 soon unless the Pens start generating some offensive pressure.

Also Leafs are due a PP

Pens got away with a ton and I am shocked they haven’t had at least 3 power plays by now. Pettersson with a hook he got away with, Rust with a hold he got away with, etc.

 

[The Old Master]

Especially when Sullivan has shown this year he is willing to adapt

 

[Andy99]

The team looks it might never score again…heavy Sullivan influence lol

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Especially when Sullivan has shown this year he is willing to adapt

This might be the funniest complete sentence uttered here in a long time, Sullivan would approve, the rest of us wouldn’t.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Rust comes back... Sully mucks up the lines, benches puli........ and zero offensive threat outside of the first 10 minutes.

 

[Pancakes]

wtf was that Rakell

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Even the Pens pressure in the Leafs zone is so lackadaisical vs the Leafs, lol. Like none of that felt like a threat to score.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Yeah Rakell has just been an empty jersey

 

[SEALBound]

Dang it guys, just shoot it.

 

[vodeni]

This sequence is kind of an example why I am not all that thrilled with Raks

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

Raks just f***ing shoot if that's how your gonna pass it

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Smart positioning by Rutger, he looked like he spent coming back but hung back while 4 Pens were down low to cut off that pass to the Leafs point.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Could end up being a very good bottom 6 C for us, the one thing I am glad they identified was using him as a C, pleasantly surprised by a group of dipshits that coach this team. They had him play RW a lot in pre-season and that was just dumb, they wasted so many games where they could have had him at C and another player at RW with him.

Enh, if you're gonna experiment, preseason's the time to do it.

It's hardly "Let's use Iginla on LW for the first time...in the playoffs" levels of WTF.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Yeah Rakell has just been an empty jersey

Of all of the bad contracts.. his rank among the worst.

 

[WickedWrister]

like 2:20 shift for McGroarty

 

[Andy99]

Pens with too many defensive breakdowns this Period. Forwards and Defense losing coverage every shift.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Enh, if you're gonna experiment, preseason's the time to do it.

It's hardly "Let's use Iginla on LW for the first time...in the playoffs" levels of WTF.

Wasting all of the preseason games with him on RW when they had him down as a C the entire time for opening day is a waste imo.

Lol the Refs are going to play catch up for the Leafs for power plays later for sure.

 

[66-30-33]

That's something Pens woulkd do. Own in the offensive zone and get a penalty somehow.

 

[Pancakes]

Pens got away with a ton and I am shocked they haven’t had at least 3 power plays by now. Pettersson with a hook he got away with, Rust with a hold he got away with, etc.

And now the Leafs just globe trotter us for a few minutes and take a penalty.

yeah the Pens are gonna be short handed like 3x in a row after this PP. better make it count

 

[FlyingPenguin]

That defensive collapse for the first goal against is truly a thing of beauty. Three or four guys consecutively making the absolute worst possible play.

I'm liking what I'm seeing from the forecheck tonight and the cycle game looks pretty good. Finishing looking like it's going to continue to be a problem though.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

That hook wasn’t even remotely as bad as Pettersson’s hook, funny to see that called, you just know the Refs are going to be the main character in the 3rd period vs the Pens.

 

[SEALBound]

This is where you need the PP to come through. Last year it didn't. We'll see if things changed for this year.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Holy smokes that long of a shift had goal written all over it.