Post-Game Talk: Game 1 Pens vs Rangers: It was ugly

[Dennis Reynolds]

DOC and Beau should sit tomorrow.

Is this the worst left-side D corps in the league? The good news is that we could call up Aho.

 

[Malkinstheman]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844205142712992089

I dont know whats up with all the puff pieces recently but these quotes are something:

Werner reiterated Fenway's belief in Sullivan, too, calling him "one of the two or three best coaches in hockey."

Fenway Sports Group chairman Tom Werner sat down with Sidney Crosby in March of last season when it looked like the Penguins' playoff hopes were all but dead.

"We're going to be better next year," Werner promised Crosby.

 

[Ginormousthumbs]

Yeah, but why’s it so hard to get a “fire Sullivan “ chant going in there? I mean even a nonentity like Matt Canada got one at the rink lol…

Someone needs to plant the seed.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Plan the parade procession

 

[Tom Hanks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844181087666438386

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844181087666438386

Accurate. Also, I have Frasier reruns on in the background while I finish up some work. Your wife was just on.

 

[tom_servo]

There is no firing Sullivan. He and the Cup players are living in a Matrix type simulacrum. If you disconnect him he dies.

 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrots]

I worried they'd used up all their scoring in the preseason, but I didn't think it'd be quiiiiiiiite that bad.

 

[Empoleon8771]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844170224528130461

.

 

[canadianguy77]

The y just get beat on the same play over and over again. It starts in the other end with a pass to a trailing defenseman or forward from somewhere near the circles that gets intercepted. Working on/tweaking that play or eliminating it and instead working the puck down low would automatically eliminate 50% of their odd man rushes against.

 

[HandshakeLine]

He needs to stop drinking during games.

Ol’ 29er has a TBI Swiss cheese brain

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

At least you can't accuse a Mike Sullivan coached team of being inconsistent. They're consistently trash structurally and consistently offensively inept.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I also don't see why Sullivan steadfastly refuses to take goalies out after they give up a few bad ones early after its worked so consistently when opponents do it against his team.

Sullivan steadfastly refuses to do a lot of common sense things. So I'm not sure why it would be surprising at this point about any thing in particular. We're where we're at because Sullivan is a stubborn SOB and his coaching is killing the remainder of this core's career.

 

[66-30-33]

At least you can't accuse a Mike Sullivan coached team of being inconsistent. They're consistently trash structurally and consistently offensively inept.

Poor Sullivan always gets the worst assistants holding him back. What's the next 2 assistants he will get that might not hold him back?

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844205142712992089

I dont know whats up with all the puff pieces recently but these quotes are something:

What is this organization's obsession with insisting Sullivan is a great coach? It's like they spent too much on a kitchen remodel that looks terrible and secretly know deep down inside, but to anyone who'll listen they'll talk about how much they love the final product.

 

[Zbynek]

LMao

 

[Pancakes]

What is this organization's obsession with insisting Sullivan is a great coach? It's like they spent too much on a kitchen remodel that looks terrible and secretly know deep down inside, but to anyone who'll listen they'll talk about how much they love the final product.

They genuinely like him for some reason. I don't know what that reason is, because results certainly aren't it. It'd be one thing if JR and Mario were still running the team, but they aren't. Dubas and FSG have received nothing but miserable results from Sullivan. They owe him nothing.

FSG has deep pocketbooks so I can't imagine that his contract is to blame for him staying. I also think he'd get scooped up by some desperate team pretty quickly if he did get fired, and I'm sure FSG and Dubas both know that as well.

So why's he still here? The only answer to that is that FSG/Dubas both like him despite how shit the Pens have been, and that's terrifying.

 

[canadianguy77]

You watch some of the younger clubs around the league and you see them giving 110%. Even in their preseason games you see guys going all out and injuring themselves before the season even begins. You look at our team and the entire atmosphere around them seems like it’s so nonchalant.

You see it from the players in the game, you see it from the coach, you see it from the management, you see it from the fans. This is a team that if its going to make a run at the playoffs, has to go all out every game. That’s why it made no sense to sign any of the older players. We needed wingers for Sid and Geno that had shit to prove. Not guys who have already cashed in their biggest NHL paychecks.

And we needed the surrounding roster to be of the same mindset. They should’ve aimed for building an expansion team type roster on the fly. I think they could've stretched the competitive window out longer that way.

 

[deakka]

Only + was the 3rd line. At least they had some zone time

 

[TNT87]

I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day waking up to the same shit season after season for years now.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

If Letang actually plays even average defense on Carrick, that deflection doesn’t happen at all.

A lot of things went wrong in that game, but how many times does one have to rationalize Jarry letting in the 1st shot of the game?

Make a save.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

This team couldn't score 1 f***ing goal. Glad we have so many vets and healthy scratch skilled offensive players.

A lot of things went wrong in that game, but how many times does one have to rationalize Jarry letting in the 1st shot of the game?

Make a save.

Mate, just shut the f*** up already.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

View attachment 914535

That dude really is just so f***ing annoying.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Saying Jarry isn’t good is like the most obvious f***ing thing anyone can say here, it’s annoying. He’s a goalie that has lost all confidence in his own abilities, I find it more f***ed up how so many just want to say told you so and want to see him fail at this point. Because if he doesn’t play better, you lot won’t see him get moved at all, you dumb twats.

 

[Rossi Rat]

Rossi: At start, are Pens already finished?​

Here come the Penguins, back from an offseason that began with ownership's corporate-style hostile takeover and ended with none of that Cup-or-bust pressure that used to set in when players reported for training camp.

There still may be a bust, but the Stanley Cup should not be an expectation.

This isn't that kind of team anymore.

(Blah, blah, blah…)

Here come the Penguins.

Remember when we knew what to expect?