GDT: Game 6 - Pens @ Isles - 6:30 PM ET - Do or Die, but Please Don't Die

[dogthateats]

Heres another joke for you guys:

 

[SouthGeorge]

lol @ the exact same lines/lineup

Lines aren't the issue. But we have a coach who use to have no issue juggling the lines and won't even do anything anymore + GM that was randomly fired. Tells me coach has his hands tied and doesn't even care anymore. Probably got some players or player he doesn't want. Management has favored fan sentiment over winning Championships. So here we are potentially getting knocked out in the 1st round by the Islanders again...

 

[Kristopher Letang]

Heres another joke for you guys:

lol

 

[MrBurghundy]

Heres another joke for you guys:

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Hope that everyone is wearing their Crocs for this one for luck.

With white socks.

 

[HuskerTornado]

Honestly not sure if this has been said yet or not, but if the Pens lose tonight, it could be the last game of the Crosby/Malkin/Letang era.

...I'm not sure I'm emotionally ready for that right now.

I'm not buying that, despite all the hype about it happening. Lots of other high dollar contracts can be moved first.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

Lines aren't the issue. But we have a coach who use to have no issue juggling the lines and won't even do anything anymore + GM that was randomly fired. Tells me coach has his hands tied and doesn't even care anymore. Probably got some players or player he doesn't want. Management has favored fan sentiment over winning Championships. So here we are potentially getting knocked out in the 1st round by the Islanders again...

Mike Sullivan is the coach of a National Hockey League team. He controls the lineup and has from the beginning. Nobody is putting fan sentiment over winning. This is all him. For good and bad.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I'm not saying I personally want to do that. I'm just saying it may happen.

I know. I'm just saying, from a Burke/Hextall perspective, why would moving Malkin or Letang make sense? There's a whole bunch of supporting pieces they could change up before doing that.

Worst case scenario (for them) is play out the final year of both their deals to see if, with the proper tweaks, we can be a contender next season, *then* think about not re-signing them after that. I just can't see a way to move on from one or both those guys AND still contend during Crosby's career.

 

[66-30-33]

Heres another joke for you guys:

Sully is the definition of insanity.

 

[MrBurghundy]

I'm not buying that, despite all the hype about it happening. Lots of other high dollar contracts can be moved first.

I 100% agree. You better believe I don't want to see it happen. I'm just saying it's a possibility, and as such it has heightened meaning for me.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

Sully is the definition of insanity.

I'm less concerned about the lines than about players passing up shots and not crashing the net.

 

[SouthGeorge]

Mike Sullivan is the coach of a National Hockey League team. He controls the lineup and has from the beginning. Nobody is putting fan sentiment over winning. This is all him. For good and bad.

Management has made a player who isn't built for playoff hockey untradeable. That's fan sentiment over Championships.

 

[MrBurghundy]

I know. I'm just saying, from a Burke/Hextall perspective, why would moving Malkin or Letang make sense? There's a whole bunch of supporting pieces they could change up before doing that.

Worst case scenario (for them) is play out the final year of both their deals to see if, with the proper tweaks, we can be a contender next season, *then* think about not re-signing them after that. I just can't see a way to move on from one or both those guys AND still contend during Crosby's career.

As far as I'm concerned, this core deserves to play here until they retire. No matter what the cost, or forfeit of compensation.

edit: we already were forced to lose Fleury. I'd rather not lose the other 3.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

Management has made a player who isn't built for playoff hockey untradeable. That's fan sentiment over Championships.

Who are we talking about?

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

Heres another joke for you guys:

so "never"

 

[HuskerTornado]

Management has made a player who isn't built for playoff hockey untradeable. That's fan sentiment over Championships.

Who?

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Heres another joke for you guys:

Sullivan's like that annoying guy in my Yahoo fantasy hockey league who sets his lineup at the beginning of the month and doesn't bother to log back in for a month so he's constantly got guys who are on LTIR dressed and giving opponents easy wins.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

As far as I'm concerned, this core deserves to play here until they retire. No matter what the cost, or forfeit of compensation.

edit: we already were forced to lose Fleury. I'd rather not lose the other 3.

To me it's less about deserving (this is a business) than about logic. Letang is playing 36 minutes. You're going to trade him? LOL. Malkin carries the team when Crosby can't. One of the greatest playoff performers ever. No reason to trade him. It's change for change's sake. None of those three are the problem.

 

[MrBurghundy]

Who are we talking about?

Who?

who?

 

[MrBurghundy]

To me it's less about deserving (this is a business) than about logic. Letang is playing 36 minutes. You're going to trade him? LOL. Malkin carries the team when Crosby can't. One of the greatest playoff performers ever. No reason to trade him. It's change for change's sake. None of those three are the problem.

That too, but the fact they are still producing means something too.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Never get out of the boat! Once you do.... For what? Mango-als...


F-it!!! We don't need this F-ing shit!

Let's go Tiger....! Which ever way it ends up being, eye of, or eaten alive...

"NEVER GET OUT OF THE F-ING BOAT!"

Where's the Tylenol?

Holy SHIT!!!!

DO SOMETHING!

“I wanted an elimination game. And for my sins, they gave me one.”

 

[TNT87]

Just realized the game is in a few minutes. The times this series have been all over the place.

 

[Killahpunk]

I am going into this game with no expectations. I feel less invested in this season and these playoffs. Hopefully we win but if we don't hopefully Sully is canned.

 

[metalan2]

So does this game actually start at 6:30?

 

[HandshakeLine]

Who?

Me. I am untradable. Suckers.