Salary Cap: Pens '24-'25 Salary Thread: The Crosbicles Volume XIX

[Sidney the Kidney]

I think at this point a monkey could come in and make these guys better

A monkey might actually try something new.

 

[Malkinstheman]

After years the team is finally getting secondary scoring but now the whole team plays defense like they've never played hockey before. One thing gets fixed another breaks

 

[Honour Over Glory]

It's not our goalies," Crosby..."It's on us to play better in front of them."

"We're giving up odd-man rushes," Crosby said. "We're not getting clears."

He added: "Look at the game-winner. I lose the faceoff. Then I don't get my guy. And it ends up in the back of the net."

"We can't keep giving up five or six goals a game if we want to win," Crosby said.

Crosby calls on Pens to improve habits: Poor start 'not our goalies'

Sidney Crosby believes the Pittsburgh Penguins' shaky start to the season can be attributed to a lack of structure on the ice rather than instability between the pipes. "It's not our goalies," Crosby told The Athletic's Josh Yohe following Sunday's 6-3 defeat to the Winnipeg Jets. "It's on us to...

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Sid usually doesn't comment as much when they're in a funk but the stuff he said after this one is frustration and when your HOF franchise star is saying stuff like that, as a GM you gotta pay real close attention to what the real issues are and it's been the way they play. It's not one game or two they're like this. Routinely giving up the puck and giving up the 2nd most shots against per game and a lot of high danger shots.

His line has been ass sure but it's the way this entire team plays. That's on the coach.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

After years the team is finally getting secondary scoring but now the whole team plays defense like they've never played hockey before. One thing gets fixed another breaks

This is a carry over from last season, all Ned needed to do last season was not allow 4 goals a game in that final 15 to win and his goals against was 3.00 goals against (4.00 a game and team allowed 3.38 and 19th for shots against). It's not new. It's just the team isn't out scoring as many as they let in like they did in the final 15 last season.

Scoring at 3.43 GF/G is fine but when you're allowing the 2nd most shots against and the collapses and turnovers are resulting in 4.43 GA/G is a recipe for disaster.

It's not even a rough patch either. These are all issues that this system had during various stretches last season and the year before but it's finally just started to happen all at once this season.