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Malkin is poison trade him now!!!!! JR
Halak, Ryder and a 2nd?
Malkin is poison trade him now!!!!! JR
I don’t think he meant it exactly like it came out. More a poor choice of words
Some observations . . .
1. Sid had a really nice game.
2. Geno was a wreck for 30 minutes and really good for 30 minutes.
3. Letang is just so awful at 5 on 5 right now. Awful in his own zone, and his awareness and execution in transition is just brutal.
4. The Sheahan is a 3C myth died tonight, ironically on a night where he actually scored.
Lol...Simon is probably sent back down the minute Kuhn is back. Sullivan has already been infected with veteran-itis.
It’s an odd feeling but it felt like they were playing a team that was just faster than them. Guys like Hags and Rust need to be more visible. We don’t stretch teams out anymore and if anything they do it to us.
Might be post game hyperbole talking, but I think this will be a year where they make some divisive trades and/or take some chances in trades where they reach a little. I don’t see this roster being significantly shored up without taking a risk or giving up a legit piece of the future. They just aren’t quite good enough to only make the usual depth moves, even if Sheahan plays well the rest of the year.
It’s an odd feeling but it felt like they were playing a team that was just faster than them. Guys like Hags and Rust need to be more visible. We don’t stretch teams out anymore and if anything they do it to us.
Might be post game hyperbole talking, but I think this will be a year where they make some divisive trades and/or take some chances in trades where they reach a little. I don’t see this roster being significantly shored up without taking a risk or giving up a legit piece of the future. They just aren’t quite good enough to only make the usual depth moves, even if Sheahan plays well the rest of the year.
The thing with the Pens is that they haven’t lost much speed.
Hornqvist, Dumoulin, Kuhnhackl, Rowney, Malkin, Kessel, Hagelin, Rust, Sheary, Cole, Schultz, Ruhwedel and Guentzel are all around the same. You want to say Crosby and Letang have lost some? Fine, but Letang didn’t play most of last season and he’s still faster than Hainsey. Sheahan is faster than Bonino and Maatta is faster than he was last year. Hunwick is a faster skater than Daley. So then you get into the will to play at a high speed and the skill to do it. Hunwick isn’t as good with the puck as Daley, maybe Sheahan doesn’t fascilitate a speed game like Bonino did and I’m sure the loss of Cullen is felt there. Then it’s, idk, Kunitz and Wilson played a better speed game than Reaves and Kuhnhackl?
I get that other teams got faster but this team did not get that much slower in raw ability.
On paper I more or less agree, but I don’t see it demonstrated. I don’t think we look really terrible or anything but I don’t see the tempo the team used to play with for whatever the reason may be.
I missed the game, did sully have the eye of the tiger?I can't remember ever seeing Sully that pissed.
It's about time he got that look in his eye.
In the post game he looked like he was doing his best to not snap and go full Therrien. He looked really disgusted.I missed the game, did sully have the eye of the tiger?
In the post game he looked like he was doing his best to not snap and go full Therrien. He looked really disgusted.
Not even close to near MJ bad. With MJ if we got scored on 1st it was an automatic loss and we were one of the worst offensive teams due to that idiot. We never battled under MJ, we just threw in the towel anytime adversity happened. I actually stopped watching Pens hockey for nearly a month untill he was fired, could not take it anymore. I'd probably have stopped watching hockey all together if he was still here.Missed the game but is this the worst Pens team since 2005-06? I'll say year 1 under Mike Johnston is worse but this is shaping up to be runner up. Would like to see some sort of sustained success (points in standings) at some point. Can they get a nice 10 game/3 week stretch? Lots of starts and stops this year and we're quickly approaching the halfway point of the season.
Our goal differential is -9 now. All I know is from my limited experience paying attention to that stat, the teams that are in the playoff hunt but are only like +1 tend to be pretenders. The teams in the minus at all are usually bad. Very interesting to me