Post-Game Talk: Harkins appreciation night
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DesertedPenguin
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I'm pretty much at the point where Dubas should just sell at the deadline for futures, clean out the coaching staff in the spring, and start fresh in free agency.
If this team is going to sabotage itself with low event hockey, AHL grinders, and zero changes to the coaching staff/power play, I really don't see the point of keeping tweener, inconsistent middle 6ers that just eat up cap like Rakell and Smith.
you mean Jake special sending the puck along the boards to no one and losing 20 seconds on every PP...
66-30-33
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The funny part is Dubas got SULLIVAN TYPE PLAYERS for his roster and he still can't coach a team with several hall of famers to a playoffs...what a fraud.
Rudy Russo
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This season is done with the current coaches and the inconsistent play of this team.
Ragamuffin Gunner
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Everyone got points besides the Isles. Games in hand don't matter when you f***ing lose.
f***ing losers.
f***ing losers.
Tender Rip
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In my next life I want to experience being an NHL GM.
Which is bizarre. Like at best since FSG has a hard on for Sully, you fire the assistants and help him right? But the optics is what they know will be hard to ignore. They fired Recchi, Martin, and Gonchar for the same problems and then to fire new assistants for the same stuff but this time the coaches have experience being good in their roles but aren't under Sully is very telling.
Reirden was a great powerplay coach with Bylsma and in Washington as an assistant. But his tenure with the Pens under Sully is the worst of his career. I think it's important to remember that. Reirden in an assistant role was great for his role outside of Sullivan. Vellucci was a coach teams wanted to hire as a coach.
Sullivan needs them to keep the scapegoat narrative alive.
It’s likely to get worse before it gets better. .500 hockey may seem a pretty worthy goal in a few years.
66-30-33
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Caps fans said Mullen or something was the guy in charge of their PP and Rierden their PK.
Ginormousthumbs
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I was thinking that most of the game.
They’re not going to be able to string enough games together to even sniff the WC
We need to unleash EK, he finally was playing the way I remember him, the problem is he is playing with Graves, so when he is deep down, and rely on Graves to hold the forth ...good luck
get rid of Rakell ASAP he is broken....
Eller has been awful last few games, so that third line now is giving up goals and not creating anything..
L1 creates, but they are giving up 5-6 great chances against every game, we are lucky our goalies are playing well..
PP just bring someone from outside and let them pick the line up and coach them for a game or two
get rid of Rakell ASAP he is broken....
Eller has been awful last few games, so that third line now is giving up goals and not creating anything..
L1 creates, but they are giving up 5-6 great chances against every game, we are lucky our goalies are playing well..
PP just bring someone from outside and let them pick the line up and coach them for a game or two
Coastal Kev
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Enough of Jake as f2 on the PP or with any sort of man advantage. So sick of him getting the puck and then immediately backhanding it to no one along the walls. He’s supposed to look for the open man and get the puck to him or skate to open ice with the puck but he always just gives the puck away. Rust does it a lot too. Put guys who are better at it in their spots. It’s not like they’re providing much out there anyway.
Ragamuffin Gunner
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Rudy Russo
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Hey! The Fenway Sports Group still loves Mike Sullivan.
Gurglesons
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Pens are done. Pretty wild Dubas somehow took Hextall’s team and made them worse.
Going to be a long painful rebuild at this point..
Going to be a long painful rebuild at this point..
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The most painful thing is absolutely nothing of impact will change.
Trading Jake, maybe, but whatever comes back is unlikely to move the needle this season.
I guess now the hope is they play just well enough to hand SJ a pick that isn't particularly worth hanging onto.
If they can *get* to the playoffs, I think could eke a round out, since they sure won't be riding the PP to get in, but nothing they're showing right now suggests they're capable of making up the necessary ground.
Trading Jake, maybe, but whatever comes back is unlikely to move the needle this season.
I guess now the hope is they play just well enough to hand SJ a pick that isn't particularly worth hanging onto.
If they can *get* to the playoffs, I think could eke a round out, since they sure won't be riding the PP to get in, but nothing they're showing right now suggests they're capable of making up the necessary ground.
I'd like to see how this roster does without Sullivan but it appears to not be an option for whatever reason.
Rudy Russo
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A three years extension the Fenway Sports Group gave Sullivan doesn't help, but that's on them.
Pens need to just make the moves when the deals make sense. Jake at the TDL. Get the top 10 lottery position pick and then hope for some lottery luck. Pens just need to make food decisions and not force the all in nonsense now. Karlsson will be attractive after next year, Rust moved with NMC gone. First and foremost, fire sullivan after this year,
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