Post-Game Talk: Penguins @ The Powerhouse - 7 PM | MSG

[ReggieDunlop68]

You know, I just realized that this will be first crop of draft picks where the majority were born after Lundqvist was drafted.

Yeah so you are saying thoughts the late Roger Nielsen might have mused about when eating at TS Ma before a game has no impact on a prospect now?

 

[will1066]

You can lose every other game the rest of the way. But don't you lose in Boston in front of my people. --David Quinn

 

[LieutenantLackluster]

Another wonderful display of “rebuild” hockey. Hope all you rebuild fans are looking forward to many more years of this. I’m not.

Ya because a decade of no playoffs/1st-2nd round exits was totally thrilling

If youre gonna lose at least get some picks out of it.

 

[NCRanger]

Another wonderful display of “rebuild” hockey. Hope all you rebuild fans are looking forward to many more years of this. I’m not.

I’ve never been a fan of Lias but I’m not sure how anyone can really think this guy is going to be a difference maker at the NHL level. He has so much to work on in his game( they’ve been mentioned a lot) that I hope he starts working on them now. Most troubling is just how completely uninvolved he is during the game. That’s terribly alarming to me! I want the guy to succeed but he really needs a great off season to get to a level that needs to look a whole heck of a lot better next season.

You should know the teams in serious trouble when the highlight of the post game interviews centers around Vinnie Lettieri and his scoring his first goal this season. Not sure it can get any more pathetic than that.

So you didn't like the iso camera on Filip Chytil? Too much more of that and I would have come to the conclusion that he's made of helium, because no actual human could possibly float as much as he was last night.

Get used to more of that. That's par for the course on broadcasts of perpetually "rebuilding" teams. And you'll have the broadcast team hyping some plug who they've decided to iso on that night.

 

[Gresch04]

I will give them the benefit of the doubt hopefully that's the direction they are going towards. the 4 big picks (kravtsov, K'Andre and Nils) after LA seems to be much more higher ceilings (albeit Nils is debatable albeit being younger than all of them)

I agree, those are higher ceiling picks and the trend is good. I won't give them the benefit of the doubt though because they just haven't earned it yet.

 

[Gresch04]

Ya because a decade of no playoffs/1st-2nd round exits was totally thrilling

If youre gonna lose at least get some picks out of it.

I could not agree more. I don't get the "hey I hope you like the losing" posts. We've been a contender for a TINY sliver of the last 80 years.

What's wrong with doing a REAL rebuild vs. a NYC rebuild? You know, the one where you pay lousy free agents too much at the tail end of their careers to fill seats for a fancy crowd with no sports knowledge to appear competitive.

 

[Hi ImHFNYR]

They are the most enigmatic team in hockey. Very decent amount of talent on paper and pretty good prospects. They have become the new stuck in the middle team

Im convinced it's coaching. We saw ourselves what a shit coach can do to talented teams. We saw what that same shit coach does with a mediocre-bad team.

Then we saw what Trotz can do to Washington and then especially to a tavares-less Isles.

Every year I see bill belichick call circles around his contemporaries.

These men are great but they're also competing against imbeciles. The bar for the average coach in pro sports has never been lower than it is right now imo

 

[ponytrekker]

Ya because a decade of no playoffs/1st-2nd round exits was totally thrilling

If youre gonna lose at least get some picks out of it.

So many teams are in a perennial rebuild. Stupid Jimmy should have waited on the rebuild until after Hank retired. He's the only reason the team had a few good runs over the last 12 years.

 

[ponytrekker]

there have been some positives to take away and i'm not trying to be dramatic about it but man would i feel alot better about things heading into the off season chytil could put together a big stretch here to end the season...

Only positive was that Gene Simmons aged better than Chris Noth.

 

[will1066]

Only positive was that Gene Simmons aged better than Chris Noth.

Chris Noth is now at the career stage of shilling for an online booking site.

 

[mrhockey193195]

Ya because a decade of no playoffs/1st-2nd round exits was totally thrilling

If youre gonna lose at least get some picks out of it.

It actually was thrilling, for me personally at least. The excitement, the big games, the big moments from 06 until 16 (in particular: 06-08, 12-15) were some of the fondest sports memories I have.

 

[mrhockey193195]

So many teams are in a perennial rebuild. Stupid Jimmy should have waited on the rebuild until after Hank retired. He's the only reason the team had a few good runs over the last 12 years.

Your last sentence is hyperbole, but I agree. My only gripe with the rebuild was timing. Hank is one of the 25 greatest goalies of all time, I wish we waited a year or two more before the rebuild started.

 

[egelband]

It actually was thrilling, for me personally at least. The excitement, the big games, the big moments from 06 until 16 (in particular: 06-08, 12-15) were some of the fondest sports memories I have.

I was quite invested in that year we had Messier and Gretzky. I felt it was destiny. And then they got beat by Philly. That was rough. After that life got real busy and those dark years were lost in me really.