Well, I feel pretty confident that they will do something to bolster the lineup. I still go back to the fact and you can look it up, that this team has not won a playoff series in five successive tries. Who's to blame for that anybody but the core? Clearly other people were at fault in some of those instances, but not every single time. I just want to know what all the sudden is going to be different this time around?
I guess you don't really understand how hard it is to win the Stanley Cup.
If you win several Stanley Cups during that time that means you go to the whole way of the end of the playoffs. You generate plenty of Revenue in those instances, as well as tons of merchandise. Think of it this way, if you won a Stanley cup hell even getting to the finals, that would mean as much revenue and likely more because you can charge more as you go along to the Conference Finals and finals as you would say getting bounced in the first round four consecutive years as we have just done. You think about that now.
I understand perfectly. Believe me I've been around a lot longer than you I feel very confident in saying. I understand how it works, but losing in five consecutive playoff series doesn't exactly fill my heart with confidence. And it's the same coach as well as the same core. So you tell me how this is going to be different? Particularly with an incredible arms race in the east?
But winning cups is not a guarantee even with your strategy. You might not even have a good roster if you draft the wrong players.
Nothing is guaranteed. But just making the playoffs and squeaking in doesn't mean that much to me.
I am not confident at all in this roster.
Which is why they're probably going to make a big mistake here at the deadline. Hopefully they won't, but I suspect a lot of you as I've said now for a few hours will be pretty happy with what you see.
Making the playoffs is alot closer to winning the thing that not making them.
Not necessarily, if you get into the lottery because you missed the playoffs and you luck out and get a top two or three pick then maybe not. Look at the teams that are perpetually in the middle. Teams like the Minnesota wild, they're generally pretty good but they never go anywhere. I would rather be at the top or at the bottom. Being in the middle is no place to be.
I'll be happy with what I see when they fire that coach of ours and hire a better one for this team. Truely go all in. It's not about having the best coach, it's about having the right coach for the team at this current time which Sully isn't anymore. Whatever happens after that? happens. Pens would be better off fixing their bottom 6 instead of going all in for certain players though. If your bottom 6 aint helping you you aint going very far.
We are nowhere near the team Minnesota Wild personal wise. We still have 2 of the best present day C's to play the game still playing at a high level. What the hell do the Wild have.....Freddy G as their 2C?
His team also won 8 playoff series in the 4 years beforehand which, if my math is correct, is more than 0. Maybe Sid needs to get "off the snide."
We are as far as the standings go. And for all the great players we have we still haven't won a playoff series since 2018. Sometimes the blame falls on the goaltending, sometimes on coaching, maybe sometimes on injury, but we haven't figured out a way to win in the past 5 years. And keep in mind we blew several to goal leads against the Rangers last year. I just want to know what's going to change this time around? And against a much tougher eastern conference.
If you want to see the Penguins win cups, then this is your best window of opportunity. Sid’s contract. You aren’t sniffing another cup for at least a decade. And you better hope you get players like Mackinnon or Makar or Draisaitl or Toews or Ovy and not Yakupov or Puljujarvi or Bennett.
