OFF DAY THREAD! Where we complain on non game days!

[Empoleon8771]

If they were so concerned about Kapanen's ability to get up to speed, I'd just run with:

Zucker-Crosby-Guentzel
McCann-Malkin-Rust
Tanev-Blueger-Kapanen
Sceviour-Jankowksi-Rodriguez

Until you were satisfied with where Kapanen's conditioning was at.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

JR needs to take the Rodrigues toy away.

It's ridiculous how often we have to say this, though.

At some point, maybe the coach should be the one "taken away" if JR is constantly having to trade/get rid of terrible players who Sullivan overplays.

 

[EightyOne]

*gets on soapbox

Garrett Wilson was an effective 4th liner in his time here!

*Kicks soapbox out from under you*

Wilson took like 127 games to get a goal and his defense didn't make up for that

 

[ronduguayshair]

I think its obvious they're throwing shade at Kapanen for being late to camp.

Can't give the new guy the corner office if he comes in late to work.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I think its obvious they're throwing shade at Kapanen for being late to camp.

Can't give the new guy the corner office if he comes in late to work.

No it's really just Sullivan wanting to ease Kapanen into the lineup and be patient about putting him on the top line.

It wasn't Kapanen's fault he showed up late.

 

[EightyOne]

No it's really just Sullivan wanting to ease Kapanen into the lineup and be patient about putting him on the top line.

It wasn't Kapanen's fault he showed up late.

You don't know anything

What a stupid fan base



/joke

 

[ronduguayshair]

No it's really just Sullivan wanting to ease Kapanen into the lineup and be patient about putting him on the top line.

It wasn't Kapanen's fault he showed up late.

Do you have proof it wasn't? I don't but other euros made it here on time. I don't personally care or care that he's not been on the first line.

There's so much desire for Kapanen as a first line winger by our ridiculous fanbase that's he's almost set up to fail. He's not slam dunk top 6. And if he fails at that the fanbase will turn on him.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

At least Kapanen is gonna have a little more help? Positives?

 

[Empoleon8771]

Do you have proof it wasn't? I don't but other euros made it here on time. I don't personally care or care that he's not been on the first line.

There's so much desire for Kapanen as a first line winger by our ridiculous fanbase that's he's almost set up to fail. He's not slam dunk top 6. And if he fails at that the fanbase will turn on him.

 

[Kristopher Letang]

Lol..they made changes, just not the right ones

I miss Kahun

 

[OnMyOwn]

No it's really just Sullivan wanting to ease Kapanen into the lineup and be patient about putting him on the top line.

It wasn't Kapanen's fault he showed up late.

Easing in is an excuse at this point. He’s an established NHL player and has been one of our best since joining the group.

I wanna know what ERod did to be this prized possession. I like the player but holy balls is he getting overplayed.

 

[Peat]

Tbh if Sullivan was going to insist on a depth forward option to play with Crosby for whatever reason he had, I really don't get why the Penguins didn't just keep Simon over signing Rodrigues.

The team obviously didn't foresee Kapanen's late arrival, sure, but you know Sullivan always had a depth guy he liked playing in an elevated role in case of things like injuries, suspensions and poor play. Why did they pick Rodrigues for that role instead of Simon, who had worked in that role before?

They said at the time they wanted the C option that Rodrigues offered and Simon didn't. With 20/20 hindsight that was a real f***ing stupid reason.

Rodrigues is what people thought Simon, Sheary, and ZAR in the top six were. They got results. You mightn't like watching them, you mightn't think it sustainable or good enough for really good opposition, but they got results as fill-ins. Rodrigues makes things horribly worse.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

but why

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

Lol..they made changes, just not the right ones

I'm officially starting to hate Sullivan. Rodrigues is terrible. He doesn't see plays developing or even wide open guys. Now I officially hate Sullivan.

 

[LOGiK]

Do you have proof it wasn't? I don't but other euros made it here on time. I don't personally care or care that he's not been on the first line.

There's so much desire for Kapanen as a first line winger by our ridiculous fanbase that's he's almost set up to fail. He's not slam dunk top 6. And if he fails at that the fanbase will turn on him.

edit... someone already posted the info.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Easing in is an excuse at this point. He’s an established NHL player and has been one of our best since joining the group.

I wanna know what ERod did to be this prized possession. I like the player but holy balls is he getting overplayed.

Probably because Sully relates to him, since he was a similar player. Same thing with Dan Bylsma and Craig Adams.

 

[Tom Hanks]

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I guess we know what ronduguayshair's twitter handle is.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

They said at the time they wanted the C option that Rodrigues offered and Simon didn't. With 20/20 hindsight that was a real f***ing stupid reason.

Rodrigues is what people thought Simon, Sheary, and ZAR in the top six were. They got results. You mightn't like watching them, you mightn't think it sustainable or good enough for really good opposition, but they got results as fill-ins. Rodrigues makes things horribly worse.

That's how f***ing bad Rodrigues is. He's making us wish for the days when Simon and Sheary were Sullivan's go-to choice for Crosby's wing.

 

[ronduguayshair]

Fair enough.

 

[Empoleon8771]

They said at the time they wanted the C option that Rodrigues offered and Simon didn't. With 20/20 hindsight that was a real f***ing stupid reason.

Rodrigues is what people thought Simon, Sheary, and ZAR in the top six were. They got results. You mightn't like watching them, you mightn't think it sustainable or good enough for really good opposition, but they got results as fill-ins. Rodrigues makes things horribly worse.

Yeah, even if you take out how Jankowski has done entirely, because I don't think it was easy to predict he would have looked as good as he has in Pittsburgh, that's still a really dumb reason because you still had McCann and Blueger as bottom-6 centers. Hell, Lafferty played a bunch of center too, and I think Sceviour has a little bit of experience at center as well.

Depth centers wasn't a position that the Penguins were lacking at all. They needed a 3C, so unless they thought Rodrigues was a 3C option, I don't get the "we wanted a depth guy who can play center" excuse.

 

[LOGiK]

I'm officially starting to hate Sullivan. Rodrigues is terrible. He doesn't see plays developing or even wide open guys. Now I officially hate Sullivan.

Rodriguez or Simon?

 

[ronduguayshair]

I guess we know what ronduguayshair's twitter handle is.

No. That's the guy that hates letang. I mean I don't really like Letang but I don't say stupid stuff like that poster.

 

[Peat]

Yeah, even if you take out how Jankowski has done entirely, because I don't think it was easy to predict he would have looked as good as he has in Pittsburgh, that's still a really dumb reason because you still had McCann and Blueger as bottom-6 centers. Hell, Lafferty played a bunch of center too, and I think Sceviour has a little bit of experience at center as well.

Depth centers wasn't a position that the Penguins were lacking at all. They needed a 3C, so unless they thought Rodrigues was a 3C option, I don't get the "we wanted a depth guy who can play center" excuse.

I think they did think he could be a 3C option. It kinda made sense to me at the time as a "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" approach but I hadn't really thought through what Rodrigues as first top six call up would look like. The moment I saw it, it stopped making sense. Just a really stupid decision.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Rodriguez or Simon?