GDT: Caps @ Pens 3pm . Honoring the great Mike Lange!

[eXile3]

Sid scores, Sullivan gets closer to Mike Johnston’s win %, we get a better pick. Fine with it.

 

[sovietsanta87]

Buyers at the deadline!

Sellers at the deadline!

 

[eXile3]

Holy hell.... PK and Messier roasting management

Were they? I muted it.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

This is embarrassing. How are they ever going to fix this defense? Ned having probably his worst performance of the season at the worst time does not help matters, but this is just ridiculous how bad this team is defensively.

Surely Vladislav Kolyachonok will suit up tomorrow, right? Riight???

 

[sovietsanta87]

They can fix the defense when they move on from 65 and 58 (and all the other defensemen)

 

[Pancakes]

This is embarrassing. How are they ever going to fix this defense? Ned having probably his worst performance of the season at the worst time does not help matters, but this is just ridiculous how bad this team is defensively.

Surely Vladislav Kolyachonok will suit up tomorrow, right? Riight???

I don't think there's any "fixing" this team defense with the roster we currently have.

Once Dubas improves the roster and adds a new coach, then maybe then. But as bad as Sullivan has been, I don't think any coach is fixing this tire dump of a roster.

 

[SomeDude]

Were they? I muted it.

They were but their points of why Dubas is doing such a bad job, which he has, is by showing clips of how garbage Sully’s system is.

I don’t know why that can’t just say the obvious that coaching and management both suck. The levels that all media go to carry water for Mike Sullivan is mind numbing.

 

[sovietsanta87]

I’m starting to think PO Joseph has eyes in the back of his head


But unfortunately he doesn’t have them in the front of his head

 

[SomeDude]

I’m starting to think PO Joseph has eyes in the back of his head


But unfortunately he doesn’t have them in the front of his head

Don’t worry, he’s only here for a week while our D is decimated with injuries or something like that.

 

[Turin]

Something that stands out especially after watching Four Nations is how pathetically small our team is.

 

[Ulf5]

But if you fire Mike Sullivan, you’re looking for a Mike Sullivan.

That is going to end up as one of the all-time great boner quotes.

I know if I fired Mike Sullivan, I'd be looking for a Mike Sullivan.
So I can FIRE HIS ASS A 2ND TIME!!!

 

[Victor Z]

I'd like to see Desharnais fight just to determine if he's capable of doing *anything*.

 

[SomeDude]

6-2 game and Ovi is frothing at the mouth to stand in one spot and shoot 9 times.

 

[sovietsanta87]

6-2 game and Ovi is frothing at the mouth to stand in one spot and shoot 9 times.

His whole career summed up in this one power play

 

[eXile3]

Acciari pk skills on full display getting out muscled easily

 

[Ulf5]

Dubi really needed to trade ned over the break before he ruined his value.

Nah NHL GMs are dumb. Lankinen just nearly got the Jarry contract. And his career numbers are worse.

 

[Extra Texture]

Were they? I muted it.

It was something, but it still wasn’t anything close to what is needed.

subban’s take was the roster is badly put together, that quality players like Letang or EK are “having to force plays” that put them in bad positions and lead to our defense looking like Swiss cheese. And of course, he lumps Sullivan in as a victim: “Crosby deserves better, Malkin and Letang deserve betterC Sullivan deserves better than he’s got”. No you f***ing dolt, he’s part of the problem.

He did call out Dubas though. Specifically his salary, saying it’s inexcusable Sid is playing at this level and the team is this bad.

Again, I don’t see how someone can lambast Dubas for the many things he’s screwed up, and the specialist in failure Sullivan walks away scot free after he oversaw the teams decline for 5 years and was somehow blameless . But I guess it doesn’t matter, we’re screwed either way.

 

[eXile3]

OV out there for 5 minutes didn’t move his legs once.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

It's wild OV has the stats he does this year with how washed he looks. Really does speak to how much the rest of the team is humming.

 

[Jacob]

Subban basically echoed that we can’t defend and we’re small and soft. Didn’t make any excuses about a lack of talent, just a lack of anything helpful around the core.

 

[BobCole]

I mean on the one hand a five-minute shift is ridiculous. On the other hand, he got four good shots off, plus several more blocked. Guy is still a threat every time he touches the puck in the offensive zone.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Subban basically echoed that we can’t defend and we’re small and soft. Didn’t make any excuses about a lack of talent, just a lack of anything helpful around the core.

He also kept referring to structure and then absolved Sullivan completely.

 

[sovietsanta87]

It was something, but it still wasn’t anything close to what is needed.

subban’s take was the roster is badly put together, that quality players like Letang or EK are “having to force plays” that put them in bad positions and lead to our defense looking like Swiss cheese. And of course, he lumps Sullivan in as a victim: “Crosby deserves better, Malkin and Letang deserve betterC Sullivan deserves better than he’s got”. No you f***ing dolt, he’s part of the problem.

He did call out Dubas though. Specifically his salary, saying it’s inexcusable Sid is playing at this level and the team is this bad.

Again, I don’t see how someone can lambast Dubas for the many things he’s screwed up, and the specialist in failure Sullivan walks away scot free after he oversaw the teams decline for 5 years and was somehow blameless . But I guess it doesn’t matter, we’re screwed either way.

There is no Karlsson and Letang in the “deserves better” conversation. There are four players that were at least partially responsible for all three Stanley cups of this era. Crosby, Malkin, Kunitz, Fleury. That’s it.

 

[SomeDude]

It's wild OV has the stats he does this year with how washed he looks. Really does speak to how much the rest of the team is humming.

The entire league has taken some sort of hands off rule with him. No players are willing to touch the guy anymore.

 

[Andy99]

Our players are losing value every minute this game progresses lol,,,get some trades going Dubas!

We have like two players who can score a goal lol