Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
I wouldn't be at all opposed to trying Kessel out with Crosby. I've been wanting to see it for a while, actually. I mean... if he and Malkin aren't allowed to play together for some reason (despite stellar results in just about every instance) then at least give him a shot with Crosby. Especially since 1> Rust doesn't seem like a good fit on Crosby's RW and 2> Kessel is being utterly wasted with Bonino and Hags.
And why wouldn't he work with Crosby?
Sometimes I really have to shake my head a little bit. I get that "depth = EVERYTHING" or whatever but talent generally trumps all. You play your best players with your best players and usually it works out pretty well. You can overwhelm teams with matchup problems and coming at them in waves. When you have Crosby and Malkin... it's also a perfectly viable strategy to simply overwhelm other teams with your top six, too. And it will always be a mystery to me why there is so much resistance to that.
Yes... I know how they just won the Cup. The Penguins kept looking backwards after 2009, as well. How'd that work out?
We just had it wrong all that time. We were looking for the 3C model when we should have been going for the 3 line model. Its clearly the only way
But yeah, I agree with your post. I am not opposed to Kessel on the 3rd (ideally, I think I prefer it actually), but not if Bones is playing like butt. Try Sid and Kessel. I would like to see all of our reasonable combinations, and our best center with our best wing is certainly a reasonable combination. With how Kessel is passing this year, and how Sid is scoring this year, I think they could be crazy good together. And for the exact opposite reason that everybody expected Also, I think Sid and Kessel could be absolutely terrifying on the rush.