Well, I haven't been wrong yet.
But keep rocking back and forth in the corner, muttering about Sullivan or whatever it is you wanna spend your Thanksgiving morning doing. /shrug
Good teams don't go on a steady decline for six years. Management has been piss poor, coaching has been piss poor, and ownership has been too scared of lost revenue to rock the boat and now it's too late. Oh well. Still got three Cups out of the era, but the team's determined to be mediocre for half a decade before like a dozen years of rebuild so, enjoy it or don't.
None of us have a choice beyond that.
Good teams don't go on a steady decline for six years. Management has been piss poor, coaching has been piss poor, and ownership has been too scared of lost revenue to rock the boat and now it's too late. Oh well. Still got three Cups out of the era, but the team's determined to be mediocre for half a decade before like a dozen years of rebuild so, enjoy it or don't.
Yep. This hasn't been a good team for a long time. It's got some good players, but the team sucks. /shrug
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I suppose this is something.(UPDATED) Sullivan Scrambles Power Play; Separates Crosby, Malkin
The Pittsburgh Penguins made perhaps the biggest wrinkle yet on their struggling power play, separating centers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on their two units at practice Thursday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. Crosby was on the top unit, along with Erik Karlsson, Jake Guentzel, Vinnie...
They do it every few years for like a week or two and then put the top unit back together. It's kinda whatever
outside of firing the coach, or some other miracle, I don't see much they can do. with the salary cap, no trade clause, and little in the pipeline our gm's hands are pretty well tied. add to that we are going to lose a 1st round pick this year or next. so with that in mind i would hope to finish as high as posable this year, let them have our pick and then tank going full rebuild. let the players know this and give them a chance to wave their no trade clause's. move as many as you can for picks/ young players.He did. He signed everybody Sullivan wanted and managed to find a taker for a lame Petry in order to be able to receive the EK gift that fell into his lap.
Rakell's probably not worth much. They're not gonna move Jake because they're dorks. Rust is unmovable. Smith isn't gonna net you anything of note. Petts? I don't know. Doesn't seem like there's really any moves to be made.
He could/should start by firing Sullivan when this team goes into another spiral, but he won't, because Dubas probably f***ing loves Sullivan. Maybe there's a move out there to be made involving POJ--might be able to find a younger "change of scenery" middle-6 forward who has stagnated similarly to POJ. That's probably all this team's got for switching things up.
The team's exactly as mediocre as we all thought it'd be after the dust settled from free agency and the EK trade. Same lame ass coach, same anemic bottom-6, same faces in the top-6 with Smith swapping in for Zucker, which was a wash. /shrug
Who? Addison just got given away cuz he's Ty Smith. Granlund sucks. Zucker's got 4pts in 12 games. Petry's got as many points as Graves. Kapanen's still an annoyingly streaky 3rd liner with as many points as Eller. Phil's cool but he can't even find a team and didn't play a playoff game for Vegas. Blueger's a dime a dozen. Is ZAR even on a team?
Not the player he once was, But would be a different kind of player than they have
About Friggin time.(UPDATED) Sullivan Scrambles Power Play; Separates Crosby, Malkin
The Pittsburgh Penguins made perhaps the biggest wrinkle yet on their struggling power play, separating centers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on their two units at practice Thursday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. Crosby was on the top unit, along with Erik Karlsson, Jake Guentzel, Vinnie...
No, they don't. You are confusing a line being on at the time of a penalty call and they rest and come on during the PP at some point. There hasn't been a set 2 unit PP since the early days.
No they have done this before for a few games. Maybe not last year but Sully has 100 percent done it before. It usually only lasts for a few games before they go back to status quo
And still wasn't particularly good at putting the puck into the net. It just looked good compared to PP1 depressingly often. PP1 still scored far goals, though.
I don't agree at all. I would remember it being anything more than a trial within a game. It certainly never did or I would have marked that down and talked about it more than bringing it up time and time again of a wasted advantage they threw away for over a decade.
I remember it happening a couple years ago but pretty sure it didn't last very long.
