Jacob
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Maybe we could secretly cut Kakko’s sticks incrementally longer until after 12-15 games he’s playing with a normal stick and doesn’t even notice.
It's much easier to accept your fate when two of your top players are dead/LTIR.
Exactly why I stopped going to key parties.bigger swingers
I'd argue that the Capitals were the ones who didn't simply accept their fate. They worked to change things, took risks. The Pens are happy to waste literally the final decade of the Sid/Geno era just to keep everyone happy and comfortable as they have their sentimental circlejerk.How the rival Capitals and Penguins have ended up in very different places
One team swam against the current and is headed nowhere. The other accepted its fate and is trending upward.www.dailyfaceoff.com
How the rival Capitals and Penguins have ended up in very different places
One team swam against the current and is headed nowhere. The other accepted its fate and is trending upward.www.dailyfaceoff.com
Oddly timed article given the Pens have dragged themselves back into the playoff race.How the rival Capitals and Penguins have ended up in very different places
One team swam against the current and is headed nowhere. The other accepted its fate and is trending upward.www.dailyfaceoff.com
The difference between the Penguins and Capitals go much further back than just the 2022 off-season. The two franchises have been operated way differently since basically the 2017 cup, I'd say that Washington's 2017 deadline where they went all-in and paid a fortune for Shattenkirk was the last time they acted like the JR-led Penguins. When you don't trade a billion picks, surprisingly you actually have some young talent.
It also helps that guys like Backstrom and Oshie LTIRetired and Kuznetsov was shipped out, the Capitals have shown a willingness to move on from former core pieces while the Penguins have adamantly refused to. Much easier to make those kind of Dubois and Strome gambles when you have a spot open for them, which the Penguins have basically refused to make. You still have people here arguing they should have kept Guentzel, which would have been another example of the Penguins refusing to move on.
Backstrom isn't retired.I see the logic behind the thought the poster is trying to make.
The pivot point really is that Backstrom retired, and that is when the Caps accepted what was happening and started their rebuild.
This would be no different if Crosby had a significant injury and he could no longer play. You could make the argument that the Pens would then consequently accept their own fate and start tearing down.
But since Crosby and Malkin are still functional, it's more difficult to walk that tightrope. Because with both of them on the roster, they are taking up:
1. Roster spots
2. Relatively significant cap space
Do not take my post as advocating for 1 vs the other. Merely objectifying the issue at hand.
He basically is.Backstrom isn't retired.
31 teams had the opportunity to sign Strome. Dude was damn near done in the league but he got the 1yr deal from Washington, took it, and got his game back - or maybe rather, he realized his full potential. As the article states, they were willing to spend a couple years in middling like we are now and it gets them a couple guys like McMichael and Protas.The difference between the Penguins and Capitals go much further back than just the 2022 off-season. The two franchises have been operated way differently since basically the 2017 cup, I'd say that Washington's 2017 deadline where they went all-in and paid a fortune for Shattenkirk was the last time they acted like the JR-led Penguins. When you don't trade a billion picks, surprisingly you actually have some young talent.
It also helps that guys like Backstrom and Oshie LTIRetired and Kuznetsov was shipped out, the Capitals have shown a willingness to move on from former core pieces while the Penguins have adamantly refused to. Much easier to make those kind of Dubois and Strome gambles when you have a spot open for them, which the Penguins have basically refused to make. You still have people here arguing they should have kept Guentzel, which would have been another example of the Penguins refusing to move on.
Agreed, we should all be very concerned as to what's going on here. I think the moral of the story is Sullivan simply won't leave. And even if we lose five in a row Sullivan has restored order to this team.Man f*** these clowns. Playing with my emotions again.
Can’t even tank right.
Feels like any notion of Petts to VAN is probably dead.
Yea, but Vancouver is trying to get a top 4 defenseman by today or tomorrow. They don't need 2.He pulled a Robert Lang on us.
Shouldn't he be fine by the TDL, though?
Yea, but Vancouver is trying to get a top 4 defenseman by today or tomorrow. They don't need 2.
Unless JR doesn't care about waiting a couple weeks after Christmas to get him. I guess in Petts case, there is gonna be less feeling out since mgmt knows him. But it just seems less likely, and it seems like they're targeting a more offensively inclined dman from what their radio guys are saying.Ah I see... yeah that's probably that, then.
Oh well. They'd have just pooched it, anyway.
Interested to see if there's anyone available to poach from Buffalo. Also interested to see how bad the Rangers are about to blow shit up.
MP should be available before the new year.Unless JR doesn't care about waiting a couple weeks after Christmas to get him. I guess in Petts case, there is gonna be less feeling out since mgmt knows him. But it just seems less likely, and it seems like they're targeting a more offensively inclined dman from what their radio guys are saying.