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Speculation: Penguins off day talk thread: Yes, Sully is still the coach

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Big Friggin Dummy said:
I guess. This team's gonna be real hard pressed to win another round in the playoffs before Sid's done. Hell, unless they fire Sullivan and his coaching staff, they might be hard pressed to make the playoffs again.
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Yep. As I've said before. If Sid is determined to retire as a Penguin he has played his last play off game.
Changing the entire coaching staff is the only move that might alter this.
 
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lol…from Dk from practice

• Power-play time, and I do believe a solution's been uncovered: It's five guys against an assistant coach. All kinds of quality looks.
All kinds of quality looks, and the hard focus is on finding a trigger man in front with two quick passes, one down low, one across. They will never do this in a game. Never.

• More power-play drills. More shots to the net through heavy traffic, often three bodies. They will never do this in a game. Never.

• Alignments are a little different than Sunrise:

PP1: Erik Karlsson and Evgeni Malkin at the points, with Valtteri Puustinen, Jake Guentzel and Sidney Crosby up front

PP2: Kris Letang at center point, with Jeff Carter, Lars Eller, Reilly Smith and Vinnie Hinostroza up front ... stressing that Eller's near enough to Letang on the left side that he can help cover back


• Puustinen's role on PP1 isn't small. In addition to being utilized in the left circle as a trigger man, as he'd been throughout his AHL career, he's sliding into the high slot upon Karlsson's instruction.

• Mike Sullivan's now instructing everyone to put on regular sweaters, with the same lines and pairings they used in Sunrise. An in-season scrimmage?

• Nah, just a continuous churn drill. But it did require a sweater change.
 
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MetalheadPenguinsFan said:
Agreed.

It took FSG what…..maybe 2 years to destroy everything Mario and Sid spent 30+ years building.

We don’t even feel like the same franchise anymore honestly.
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OHH GOOD GOD

Andy99 said:
lol…from Dk from practice

• Power-play time, and I do believe a solution's been uncovered: It's five guys against an assistant coach. All kinds of quality looks.
All kinds of quality looks, and the hard focus is on finding a trigger man in front with two quick passes, one down low, one across. They will never do this in a game. Never.

• More power-play drills. More shots to the net through heavy traffic, often three bodies. They will never do this in a game. Never.

• Alignments are a little different than Sunrise:

PP1: Erik Karlsson and Evgeni Malkin at the points, with Valtteri Puustinen, Jake Guentzel and Sidney Crosby up front

PP2: Kris Letang at center point, with Jeff Carter, Lars Eller, Reilly Smith and Vinnie Hinostroza up front ... stressing that Eller's near enough to Letang on the left side that he can help cover back


• Puustinen's role on PP1 isn't small. In addition to being utilized in the left circle as a trigger man, as he'd been throughout his AHL career, he's sliding into the high slot upon Karlsson's instruction.

• Mike Sullivan's now instructing everyone to put on regular sweaters, with the same lines and pairings they used in Sunrise. An in-season scrimmage?

• Nah, just a continuous churn drill. But it did require a sweater change.
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So Golden Boy Is in his "Birthrite" spot & Geno is on LP & & a Odd man rush waiting to happen
 
The only slimmer of hope I have is seeing 6 teams ahead of the Pens, having negative goal differential, while the Pens are a +6. So something's gotta give, maybe.

Or we keep losing 3-2 with the worst PP in the league.

That means they're actually doing very well aside from such an awful PP. Bounces have to go their way soon right? ..right
 
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PensandCaps said:
The only slimmer of hope I have is seeing 6 teams ahead of the Pens, having negative goal differential, while the Pens are a +6. So something's gotta give, maybe.

Or we keep losing 3-2 with the worst PP in the league.

That means they're actually doing very well aside from such an awful PP. Bounces have to go their way soon right? ..right
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We’re only +6 because of that 10-2 win against the Sharks eons ago lol…there’s nothing much to make of it
 
Andy99 said:
lol…from Dk from practice

• Power-play time, and I do believe a solution's been uncovered: It's five guys against an assistant coach. All kinds of quality looks.
All kinds of quality looks, and the hard focus is on finding a trigger man in front with two quick passes, one down low, one across. They will never do this in a game. Never.

• More power-play drills. More shots to the net through heavy traffic, often three bodies. They will never do this in a game. Never.

• Alignments are a little different than Sunrise:

PP1: Erik Karlsson and Evgeni Malkin at the points, with Valtteri Puustinen, Jake Guentzel and Sidney Crosby up front

PP2: Kris Letang at center point, with Jeff Carter, Lars Eller, Reilly Smith and Vinnie Hinostroza up front ... stressing that Eller's near enough to Letang on the left side that he can help cover back


• Puustinen's role on PP1 isn't small. In addition to being utilized in the left circle as a trigger man, as he'd been throughout his AHL career, he's sliding into the high slot upon Karlsson's instruction.

• Mike Sullivan's now instructing everyone to put on regular sweaters, with the same lines and pairings they used in Sunrise. An in-season scrimmage?

• Nah, just a continuous churn drill. But it did require a sweater change.
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Wow, Sully putting someone in a position to play to their strengths. Even if it's only practice. Baby steps. Let's hope it carries over.
 
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I’m sorry but how long does it take to evaluate someone…he’s probably out for the season
 
Andy99 said:
Puustinen's role on PP1 isn't small. In addition to being utilized in the left circle as a trigger man, as he'd been throughout his AHL career, he's sliding into the high slot upon Karlsson's instruction.
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Ah, a radical new move - actually trying to be threatening from the slot on the power play.

Too bad we won't anything of the sort during actual games.
 
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Sidney the Kidney said:
Don't be silly. That just means they might have to think about switching the roles of the assistant coaches.

There's probably 50 things this organization will do first before ever firing their beloved GOAT coach.
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Nah, we’ll swap Puusty and Nylander again…you’ll see, it’ll work the second time

Pool Party move just shows how desperate we are for legit players under age 30 lol
 
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