Pre-Game Talk: All Purpose Off Day Thread | Ruhwedel to W-B/S for Conditioning

[Gurglesons]

Yeah, I assume Johnson is playing tonight.

Either way. So great that it seems like his injury is minor.

 

[Gurglesons]

@Empoleon8771

 

[Empoleon8771]

@Empoleon8771

I don't know why you're quoting me with that, I've been saying for a while that Johnson is a bad possession player. That isn't anything new with him, the best case scenario over his career has been "okay, that's not completely terrible".

Johnson has like a 1.3 GA/60 since the Pettersson trade, when his big problem early in the year was getting scored on a ton. That's why him getting scratched right now doesn't make much sense to me.

Edit: those charts also say that Riikola has been just as bad as Johnson this year and Oleksiak has been as good as Dumoulin, so I'm not sure if you can take those charts as gospel

 

[Pancakes]

Interesting that Desmith is starting again today. I guess they're still treating him as the no.1 for now and really easing Murray back in?

That's not the worst idea. Build MM's confidence up by letting him beat bad teams like LA.

Although Anaheim sucks too and it astounds me that they're 8-1 over their last 9 or whatever. They're so bad.

 

[Gurglesons]

Interesting that Desmith is starting again today. I guess they're still treating him as the no.1 for now and really easing Murray back in?

That's not the worst idea. Build MM's confidence up by letting him beat bad teams like LA.

Although Anaheim sucks too and it astounds me that they're 8-1 over their last 9 or whatever. They're so bad.

It’s because they are playing young players in their top six for once and their D is nearly healthy.

God, their D is so cool compared to ours.

 

[Pancakes]

It’s because they are playing young players in their top six for once and their D is nearly healthy.

God, their D is so cool compared to ours.

They're 29th in CF. Only NYR and Ott are worse.

Will be interesting to see how that goes tonight vs us without Letang (assuming Tanger sits out). Stoppable force meets movable object.

 

[Andy99]

Interesting that Desmith is starting again today. I guess they're still treating him as the no.1 for now and really easing Murray back in?

That's not the worst idea. Build MM's confidence up by letting him beat bad teams like LA.

Although Anaheim sucks too and it astounds me that they're 8-1 over their last 9 or whatever. They're so bad.

They have Gibson bailing them out a lot...

 

[Gurglesons]

They're 29th in CF. Only NYR and Ott are worse.

Will be interesting to see how that goes tonight vs us without Letang (assuming Tanger sits out). Stoppable force meets movable object.

They’ve looked good in the games I’ve seen.

I think they likely cream us tonight. Really hope we continue to solidify our playoff spot. Win tonight and we likely leapfrog CBJ.

 

[Pancakes]

They’ve looked good in the games I’ve seen.

I think they likely cream us tonight. Really hope we continue to solidify our playoff spot. Win tonight and we likely leapfrog CBJ.

We should be able to beat them. Though if Letang sits, it's anyone's guess. We barely manged LA without him.

 

[billybudd]

I haven't had that issue at all, if you're on wifi, maybe then? Also could be which Iphone you have.

I don't know if it still is a problem, but it was after the re-design.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I don't know if it still is a problem, but it was after the re-design.

As a long time Android user that despised Apple, then switched over to Apple after the Note 7 mishandling and customer service, my only gripe with apple is the way their OS restricts so much. I still hope that changes.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

You serious? Dumoulin has been fantastic overall this season, he had that one inexplicably horrible week a little while ago but he's given us so much this season.

I don't think you're serious.

Dumoulin has been mediocre, bad, and good - all 3, every week he's played. He hasn't been consistently good like he normally is. I attribute this to him rushing back from his injury and not being 100% since then.

 

[JackFr]

I don't think you're serious.

Dumoulin has been mediocre, bad, and good - all 3, every week he's played. He hasn't been consistently good like he normally is. I attribute this to him rushing back from his injury and not being 100% since then.

I feel as though this doesn't matter to you at all, but

 

[Clare2904]

Pens Re-Assign Jean-Sebastien Dea to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Horny back Wednesday?

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

Pens Re-Assign Jean-Sebastien Dea to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Horny back Wednesday?

Probably, but the guy to send down was Wilson. Dea was at least a dude who brought some energy/speed

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

I feel as though this doesn't matter to you at all, but

There are 3 guys on defense that AREN"T a problem:
Dumo
Letang
Petterson

The rest have their warts, but the biggest and nastiest wart on the Penguins face is Jack Johnson. Start with scratching his butt and see what you've got with the remainder. I'd rather have Ruh in there vs JJ- he's complete trash

 

[Turin]

There are 3 guys on defense that AREN"T a problem:
Dumo
Letang
Petterson

The rest have their warts, but the biggest and nastiest wart on the Penguins face is Jack Johnson. Start with scratching his butt and see what you've got with the remainder. I'd rather have Ruh in there vs JJ- he's complete trash

I’d rather have Hunwick.

 

[Gurglesons]

There are 3 guys on defense that AREN"T a problem:
Dumo
Letang
Petterson

The rest have their warts, but the biggest and nastiest wart on the Penguins face is Jack Johnson. Start with scratching his butt and see what you've got with the remainder. I'd rather have Ruh in there vs JJ- he's complete trash

Can’t he scratch it himself?

 

[Gurglesons]

I’d rather have Hunwick.

We’d probably have Hunwick and Sheary. Or something more valuable than maybe a 3rd for Shears.

 

[DegenX]

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Horny into the lineup and Wilson out is a nice swing.

 

[DegenX]

Hornqvist has been taken off of IR on the Pens site, but there hasn't been an official update yet. I don't know if they're practicing today or not.

 

[dogthateats]

 

[dogthateats]

It’s weird that no Pittsburgh reporters have tweeted this.

 

[PensandCaps]

So with Horny back do you keep Rust with Sid? Or put Rust with Malkin and put Kessel on line 3?

Malkin imo benifiets much better with a good puck retriver and a good board player in Rust. Than with Kessel atm.