Post-Game Talk: Pens and the horrifying 2-0 lead

The Old Master

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I can't even fathom the last goal. All three penguins standing there, Jarry wildly out of position. Absurd.

Jarry should be released and the penguins should deal with the dead cap.
if no one else is going to attack the player with the puck, jarry decided to do it himself :laugh:
 

heysmilinstrange

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Fogel

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At this point, the goaltending feels very much like Fleury in the playoffs post Cup; you are waiting for something bad to happen and when it does, the flood gates open.
 
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Big Friggin Dummy

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Between the coach's TOI distribution, line combos, the team's miserable attempt at defensive play, the team's inability to finish the rare chances they end up with, and the volatility in goal, you're lookin' at a shitpile like the scene from the first Jurassic Park.

Did Petts ever come back? I can't even remember, man. :laugh: They gotta start working the phones now to see if teams are interested in guys like Petts, Rakell, Bunting, etc. cuz you just know anybody that's any bit tradeable is getting hurt a week before the TDL.
 
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Buddy Bizarre

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if no one else is going to attack the player with the puck, jarry decided to do it himself :laugh:

Disclaimer: I'm not defending Jarry

But I've been on teams like this as a goalie. You start thinking YOU have to play defense too, so you start being more aggressive than you typically are and find yourself deeply out of position. You play deep in your net bc you know they aren't gonna take the back door play away.

Jarry was probably at this point last year. Glad Blom isn't around this team or he's gonna develop bad habits too.

In short, Jarry is a goalie who had questionable mental toughness and now he's lost ALL his confidence. Keep him if you want to lose more games. If not, he's gotta go
 

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That's a very nice, well-formed, and well-spoken sentence, Mike. No wonder you're the coach!
Jesse and I will agree here. I have talked in the past that Jarry is in a very bad position when it comes to goalies. If you lose 3-2 but are at 0.940 sv%, no one gives a shit about your sv% and if you win 6-5 at 0.840 sv%, no one gives a shit about your sv%. Right now, he needs to get the win and he's not. Sure, he was decent for most of the game but when it mattered, he failed and we lost. End of story. Another bad game for Jarry ultimately.

There's no more "games to build on". It's either you do or you don't.
 
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Sidgeni Malkby

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I'm not blaming Jarry for that loss. He made timely saves when it counted, it was up to the team to execute.

The OT was odd...
Jarry was playing the shot, and instead it trickled oddly beside the net. Just happens Point got to it first and that was all there was to it.

Yeah...Jarry could have been a bit more nimble, and be able to back in towards his net after the deflection, but then again, we could have gotten to the puck first.

All in all a bunch of shared idiocy to which I can't single out Jarry.

To be fair, we would have chalked that up to bad bounces, if we hadn't lost 10 other times with 2+ goal leads.

My take...
+ young guys
- Sully for not playing them enough

We actually could be pretty good if Sully would just let the kids grow!
 

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This was written before last night’s game…I was really hoping to be happy today and wake up to news that Sullivan had been fired…but now I have to be miserable all day….F U FSG! lol…
You all deserve to be miserable after 4 finals and 3 cups. What do you all expect? To keep on winning and the playoffs to keep coming?

This is cultivated on a bad ownership change that has literally no knowledge of the game, hires a loser GM who couldn't even make a younger core work, and the inevitable loss of talent after b2b cups and people are blaming the coach and goalie....

I'm reveling in everyone's misery..... I have no such blaming the past the obvious changes that has this team worse off where I've seen the Bruins extend their days with the same like elder players to their inevitable end.



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That’s the whole thing with Jarry. If it was Ned or Blom in the net last night, you’d say “well, they had a good game up until the end, stuff happens.”

With Jarry, his biggest problem is collapsing in the worst moments. So, if he played great for 50 minutes and blew it in the last 13, it completely negates the positives because it’s the same problem he’s had his entire career here and shows that he is still the same broken loser he always has been.
 
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IMO when you see a goalie do something that stupid, it’s usually because they are dumb (they’re goalies it goes without saying) but also that they do not trust their teammates at all. And probably vice versa.

It reminded me so much of early MAF when he felt like he had to win games single handedly (and usually ended up with a similar stupid goal because he was out of position) that I actually laughed out loud when I saw it.
 
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Big Friggin Dummy

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Yeah. It's pretty clear Jarry doesn't trust the team in front of him to help him out defensively, and the team in front of him has zero confidence in their goalie.

It's best for all parties to part ways, but good luck finding anybody to take Jarry.
 

heysmilinstrange

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Yeah. It's pretty clear Jarry doesn't trust the team in front of him to help him out defensively, and the team in front of him has zero confidence in their goalie.

It's best for all parties to part ways, but good luck finding anybody to take Jarry.

Or maybe we hire a new coach and everyone mysteriously looks better. I know firing Sullivan is even less likely than moving Jarry.
 

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