Post-Game Talk: If only Sullivan could get goaltending.

[HandshakeLine]

Please understand, this will potentially expose you to United States sourced income tax unless your due diligence with said artwork is conducted in CZ. This will not be an easy transaction to explain to Customs. I won't even get into my distrust of artsy folk and their often expansive concept of the term "modest". I will not pay EU VAT, or whatever the hell you Socialists demand. Alternatively, may we negotiate a Chad Ruh NFT? Perhaps a gladiator? I'd prefer an astronaut, superhero or even a cowboy, but those have already been minted by Tangerine Dream. CZ couldn't care less about copyrights, I presume? I recommend your retaining @Andy99 before we proceed to a memo of understanding. Details are everything, but if we reduce this to crypto, I think we're in the clear.

a lotta yall still dont get it

Ruhwedel holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single Ruh

so if you have 1 astro Ruh and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new Ruhwedels

Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Sully Forces

 

[Pens1566]

a lotta yall still dont get it

Ruhwedel holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single Ruh

so if you have 1 astro Ruh and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new Ruhwedels

Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Sully Forces

Why stop at just the NFTs??? We should go the whole way and create a crypto currency out of this as well. Ruh-coin? Chadtoken maybe?

 

[Pens x]

The weird thing with Big Puusy is that he is 23 already and his ELC is burnt this year.

It wouldn’t shock me if they don’t even tender him a QO given how they seemingly don’t give a shit about him.

#sullyisaxenophobe

I#soissleepy

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

Why stop at just the NFTs??? We should go the whole way and create a crypto currency out of this as well. Ruh-coin? Chadtoken maybe?

Baldecoin?

 

[Power Surge]

I thought the Pens Robo Pigeon was bad... This looks like a Palm tree and a really weird looking putter.

This would have been better as a Red Jersey. Its like the Pens trying to force the Powder Blue again. This logo was originally their secondary logo on their sleeve.

 

[Power Surge]

a lotta yall still dont get it

Ruhwedel holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single Ruh

so if you have 1 astro Ruh and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new Ruhwedels

Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Sully Forces

Ruh 21 was ahead of its time.

 

[ChaosAgent]

Nope

The future is blindingly bright.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

The future is blindingly bright.

Legare can't crack their top 6
So unfortunate.

 

[ChaosAgent]

Legare can't crack their top 6
So unfortunate.

I'm not surprised at all that Legare has busted. His ceiling was the player that Danton Heinen is now, but right handed.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I'm not surprised at all that Legare has busted. His ceiling was the player that Danton Heinen is now, but right handed.

Yeah, I never expected much from a guy who basically only has a good shot.

Thought things would go better for Lindberg. It's a shame Blomqvist won't be ready until it's too late too. Coulda really used one of them as backup next year.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Wait! Maniscalco is now a forward?

 

[Icarium]

What the hell happened to Rakell? He was one of our most defensively responsible forwards but suddenly he is one of the least responsible. Of course, Sully being Sully decided that now was the time to promote him to L1. Probably the right decision, don't get me wrong but it's funny how it came when Rakell checked out defensively for the most part and then he basically assisted on the decisive goal for the Sharks.

As for the rest of the game - I just laughed when the Pens allowed the game winner. It was bound to happen, you can't just not play defense in this league. Even the Oilers can't get away with it and their superstars aren't on the wrong side of 35 like ours. DeSmith isn't a good goalie, sure but the defense or rather the lack thereof is a much bigger issue. You can't leave a guy wide open in front of the net with seconds to go in a period when all your players are in their zone and three of them aren't really marking anyone.

Also, the power play scored two very quick goals thanks to having two players close to the net (and Rakell in particular right in the goalie's face) and then proceeded to mostly keep things on the perimeter for the other power play chances for some arcane reason. Which of the two teams was tanking again? If I had any trust in Sully I would think this loss might be a good wake-up call but he has been asleep for years now, so I just wonder what stupid thing he will come up with next.

 

[Power Surge]

The future is blindingly bright.

Thats what you get when you have a GM like JR throw picks away like candy.

 

[Power Surge]

Why did Michael Stipes change his name to Chad Ruhwedel?

 

[Pens x]

Thats what you get when you have a GM like JR throw picks away like candy.

As opposed to the current one who sits blindly next to Sully, pretending we don’t have an AHL team or finding more over 30 year olds to sign, locked away in his office.

 

[Victor Z]

Yeah, I never expected much from a guy who basically only has a good shot.

Thought things would go better for Lindberg. It's a shame Blomqvist won't be ready until it's too late too. Coulda really used one of them as backup next year.

Gauthier, albeit in just 8 games @ WBS has looked quite good including his win last night. Lindberg was the Great Hope last year but Gauthier is about 2 years younger than Lindberg and not a whole lot less experienced professionally, though I realize his performance was just mundane at Wheeling and 8 games in the AHL isn't enough to project a guy's future.

 

[Shady Machine]

Hope they bring in a goalie so all these morons thinking this is all Desmith get what they are asking for.

I hope they bring in a goalie so the team gets better. Odd take.

 

[Power Surge]

As opposed to the current one who sits blindly next to Sully, pretending we don’t have an AHL team or finding more over 30 year olds to sign, locked away in his office.

5-10 years from now you'll look at WBS lineup and then give Hextall a thank you.

 

[Icarium]

Blame DeSmith all you want but if your team gives up 23 high danger even strength chances to a tanking team (which lost in a heartbreaking fashion the previous night to boot), your team flat out sucks. For comparison, the Canes gave up just 8 to this same Sharks team. Even the likes of Oilers and Bluejackets gave up a single figure high danger chances to the Sharks recently. The Penguins give them up like they are going out of style. With Jarry in net we might steal some games but we have no business being in the playoffs with this kind of attitude to defense.

 

[Andy99]

The safe play takes away 2 of those. The first goal of the game was him looping.

I mean, I think I can safely say this game fell on Geno's shoulders. 3 times this wiped out being tied or in the lead. Malkin at equal isn't a winning formula.

Huh? At worst, 3 goals against he had a hand in and three goals for he had a hand in…net neutral…the tying goal was on POJ and Rakell…he wasn’t on the ice…ergo, he did not lose this game singlehandedly…I think you’re just pissed at him..he was sloppy, as were others, and CDS was bad…other players were just as bad defensively but did not produce the goals…

 

[Andy99]

I think over a long enough sample size it should cancel out. You get lucky. You get unlucky.

Yes a forward is largely irresponsible for each individual goals scored against him. But over a long enough timeframe, I'm interested in knowing whether the team outscores the opposition when he's on the ice.

I also think the modern NHL does not reward a diminished star. Maybe a diminished star who then plays a new plugger-type role, like Carter when things were going well for him here. But it does not reward ambition and confidence if they don't pan out. Especially if you're slow. Geno looks about 90% of what he was at his peak, but the problem is he plays such a high-event game that him being a net positive rests on a knife's edge.
Sadly it's kind of like Kessel '18-'19.

Yes, it’s more meaningful over time but still not all that completely meaningful…Geno was a +2 before the last couple weeks….mostly, the last couple weeks was Rakell being terrible/unlucky defensively…Geno also gets the minus for that even though, outside of this game, he didn’t really contribute to those goals against

 

[Andy99]

What a depressing season. When we can score, we can't finish when it matters. When we get goaltending, the PP sucks and can't finish. When everything else works, the goalies can't make a save. Team defense sucks most of the time.

We’re a very unclutch team full of mental midgets….

 

[Andy99]

a lotta yall still dont get it

Ruhwedel holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single Ruh

so if you have 1 astro Ruh and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new Ruhwedels

Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Sully Forces

Are you using RuhChatGPT?

 

[Icarium]

The Pens played pretty good defense against the Devils, lost in a very frustrating fashion and seem have decided not to bother with defense since then. They get frustrated too easily and revert to bad habits. Will a new coach be able to rectify that? Maybe, maybe not. But Sully is clearly not able to, so expecting him to finally do it after years of this exact thing happening is the definition of insanity, IMO.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I didn't watch this one because... um... who the hell wastes time with this team on a Saturday night anyway? I'm at the point where I basically check box scores to see how a handful of guys are doing. But I see that this loss was "on Malkin's shoulders." Huh. Welp I guess I'll have to take your word for it. It's pretty common in hockey for it all being one guy's fault, after all. And I've never seen any truly bizarre takes about that player so it can't be axe grinding, either.

Oh well. Hopefully they trade him soon! Ooooh! And get a new goaltender and an overpriced third liner! That'll fix 'er!