GDT: Around the NHL - Playoff Edition

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

10 year age gape between them though.

Plus has Rantanen had as many injuries??

I think he means trade speculation from years ago. Because I mean... yeah... anyone with eyes can tell Malkin is pretty terrible these days.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I think he means trade speculation from years ago. Because I mean... yeah... anyone with eyes can tell Malkin sucks, now.

I stand corrected, probably

Carry on

 

[PamBallam]

I stand corrected, probably

Carry on

Yea, I meant how people wanted to trade prime Geno a decade ago lol.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Dallas is gonna be a real f***in' problem for the rest of the league if Heiskanen comes back and doesn't take long to get back to form.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Yea, I meant how people wanted to trade prime Geno a decade ago lol.

The Pens should trade Malkin and make Jordan Staal the 2nd line center.

 

[plaidchuck]

Still think they shouldve made the Letang trade around 2013 or whenever his contract was up. Shero even wanted to, that was all ownership right there.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

The Pens should trade Malkin and make Jordan Staal the 2nd line center.

The fact that there was a not-insignificant portion of the fanbase and talking heads that seriously thought this was smart really soured me on, well... people I guess.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Every time I watched the Avs it seemed obvious that Rantanen was not only easily one of their best players (I often came away more impressed with him than Mac) but one of the very best wings in the whole game... so I was absolutely shocked when they decided he wasn't in their plans.

Small side lol to Carolina, too

Agree.

I was kinda trippin when he was struggling some with CAR and early in his Dallas stint. Like was I misremembering how good he was?

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Agree.

I was kinda trippin when he was struggling some with CAR and early in his Dallas stint. Like was I misremembering how good he was?

I think it's tough for talent to shine in Carolina and as far as Dallas goes... I'll just assume that it can take a while for players to settle in.

 

[Turin]

Hossa was pretty mid for the Penguins until near the end of the first round iirc. Then he was awesome and maybe the Pens best overall forward from then on out. He’s still my favourite winger archetype ever.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Dallas is gonna be a real f***in' problem for the rest of the league if Heiskanen comes back and doesn't take long to get back to form.

Poor Leafs fans

 

[cygnus47]

Still think they shouldve made the Letang trade around 2013 or whenever his contract was up. Shero even wanted to, that was all ownership right there.

He was absolutely vital in 2016.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I'll still die on the hill that Staal should've been developed as a power foward winger for Geno's line.

 

[Turin]

Still think they shouldve made the Letang trade around 2013 or whenever his contract was up. Shero even wanted to, that was all ownership right there.

But the Pens literally won a Cup with him as their best defenseman by far

 

[Turin]

Dallas is gonna be a real f***in' problem for the rest of the league if Heiskanen comes back and doesn't take long to get back to form.

Yea, but next year because Jets are gonna win tho.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I'll still die on the hill that Staal should've been developed as a power foward winger for Geno's line.

I do think Staal being typecast as a shutdown 3C stunted his offensive development. Doubt he had the natural skill to ever be some sort of 40 goal, 80 point offensive winger. But I could see him being that 25-30 goal, 60-ish point defensively strong winger, if he was developed more in an offensive role as a youngster.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I do think Staal being typecast as a shutdown 3C stunted his offensive development. Doubt he had the natural skill to ever be some sort of 40 goal, 80 point offensive winger. But I could see him being that 25-30 goal, 60-ish point defensively strong winger, if he was developed more in an offensive role as a youngster.

Yeah, could've been a Mark Stone kinda guy.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I do think Staal being typecast as a shutdown 3C stunted his offensive development. Doubt he had the natural skill to ever be some sort of 40 goal, 80 point offensive winger. But I could see him being that 25-30 goal, 60-ish point defensively strong winger, if he was developed more in an offensive role as a youngster.

Aside from this, I always thought Staal would have benefitted from one more year in juniors to hone his offense and really dominate as he hadn't really done that before hitting the NHL. I mean it's cool he made the team so young but I always wondered if his game suffered a bit for it. If I'm being honest probably not... he was always a little bit of a boner in the OZ. But dude was a horse and would have probably made a nice power winger/center hybrid.

Trying to put Malkin on HIS wing was the height of stupidity, though. I've come around on Staal and his role here in the intervening years but the dude could barely make a clean ten foot pass through the NZ nevermind pivot the second line next to a guy who was his superior in just about every way. It wasn't fair to him if nothing else.

 

[plaidchuck]

But the Pens literally won a Cup with him as their best defenseman by far

Yeah it worked out in the end, hindsight 20/20 and all that. I think the team needs at the time were greater than keeping him though.

All hail David Moorehouse I suppose

 

[sovietsanta87]

I’ve never seen a team get so many lucky bounces that lead to ridiculously good chances. Like that puck just bounced off a teammate and went the other way for a breakaway

 

[plaidchuck]

Yeah I swear all the worst teams got lucky horseshoes jammed up their keister this year.

 

[Sorry]

I'm still trying to figure out how that is a penalty on Orlov. Unreal. For 30 years I've been ahead of the refs when watching the game. Every instinct was just disproven. And then Wilson jumps at Svechnikovs head as well. Well aware of why the NHL level is becoming/became a farce. Like every sport now. It's hard to watch.

Red Wings fans in 2008/09 should look at those Pens teams as stables of the modern era compared to this trash.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

f*** the Craps

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Adin Hill doing his best Jarry impression in that period. What's with the Oilers getting back to back shitty performances out of the opposition goalie? First Kuemper forgot how to play goalie and now Hill's letting in unscreened 30 foot wrist shots from deep out.

 

[Andy99]

Oilers are gonna make short work of the Knights…Hill hasn’t been very good…for all we hate them, Oilers are looking like a good pick for a SC this year