Post-Game Talk: Pens Ducks Halloween horror show

[Goalie_Bob]

At least there's a ton of empty seats. FSG HAS to see and care about that.

It was Halloween night against a team nobody gives a shit about……..and it super fricken nice out.

 

[Icarium]

Actually a fun game for a change but it helps when you are okay with the Pens possibly losing and just laugh when you seem them gifting grade A chances in the final minutes once again. The top line seemed to be on the ice all the time, that's unsustainable obviously but it was nice to see them dominate. Bunting showing a pulse and once again a decent showing in OT.

Now they just need to figure that pesky defence thing and penalty shootouts and find a way to make Sid and Geno ten years younger and replace the coaching staff. No big deal.

 

[Ignatius]

Yay.

Everything is fine now.

The channel Hockey Psychology on YouTube has a Leafs Stanley Cup parade tracker on their weekly update videos.

Perhaps the HF Pens board needs a Fire Sully tracker?

 

[KrisLetAngry]

There's only a handful of teams in the NHL that are designed to lose games.

Anaheim Ducks are one of them. I have no idea what that Franchise is planning but how long they going to stay bad?

+Ned for saves
+ CROSBY 2 goals.

 

[vodeni]

+ Ned stole this one at the death. 3 giant saves.
+ Sid moving his legs again and acting like a Captain
+ Rakell. All over it tonight, and the night before.
+ Pretty close to a 60-minute effort, albeit against a weaker, tired team at the end of a road trip
+ Improved team defending, although that's largely a result of facing the Ducks I think
+ This was one of Bunting's best games. Played hard all night. Deserved a point.
+ Pettersson's best game defensively. No question.

- Throwback shooting night, although give Dostal credit too. He's insane this year.
- Those late breakaways and golden chances given up with a minute or two left. They're lucky they even got a point. How can you be that sloppy at the very end, when all you have to do is stay structured for one more minute?
- Puljujarvi scratched and possibly lost to waivers soon. Wasteful, stupid.
- Letang had like 3 really bad errors where he mishandled the puck in fairly vulnerable positions. Lucky the Ducks didn't take advantage.
- I'd like to see Karlsson attack the middle ice more. When he's moving laterally at speed, straddling the blue line, he's often going so fast that he can just blow by guys and penetrate down low. He can create odd-man situations with lost assignments. He did a lot more of this when he got 100 points. It's been coached out of him.
A team like ours who are probably gonna have bad finishing again need that out of their 10M guy. They need high danger backdoor plays.

Those 3 breakaways and incredible saves in the last 2:30 would have been the nail in the coffin. What bothers me it always happens when he puts his “defensive lines” that are suppose to close the job, incredible, they never gonna learn the lessons

 

[Gurglesons]

There's only a handful of teams in the NHL that are designed to lose games.

Anaheim Ducks are one of them. I have no idea what that Franchise is planning but how long they going to stay bad?

+Ned for saves
+ CROSBY 2 goals.

Nah. Ducks are trying to be competitive now.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

Those 3 breakaways and incredible saves in the last 2:30 would have been the nail in the coffin. What bothers me it always happens when he puts his “defensive lines” that are suppose to close the job, incredible, they never gonna learn the lessons

Sullivan thinks after being burned for the thousandth time, the players will really start buying in and playing the game the right way.

It's flat out unexplainable how this coach can't reliably protect a lead. Hell he couldn't protect a 3-1 series lead a few seasons ago.

 

[Andy99]

Sullivan thinks after being burned for the thousandth time, the players will really start buying in and playing the game the right way.

It's flat out unexplainable how this coach can't reliably protect a lead. Hell he couldn't protect a 3-1 series lead a few seasons ago.

If we didn’t have Sullivan, we’d be looking for Sullivan…

 

[BillyOcean]

Was at this game. Lower bowl student rush is now $25. You also get to pick your seat. Upper bowl is $15.

This is the cheapest it's been in a long time. Last year I believe it was around $45 for lower bowl. No one is really going. Maybe the price differs with opponent.

Id encourage any students here to take advantage of that. Its a great way to see multiple hall of famers on the ice. If you're a new fan, this will make you a bigger one.

I was four rows back and got to see Crosby's OT winner happen in front of me. Not bad for $25.

I would have loved to have gone to games when I was 7-8 years old, but it was not in the cards from a cost perspective. It was only until I hit highschool and college that I was able to wait in line for $20 student rush tickets. Saw a lot of fun games from great seats at Civic at the start of the Crosby era.

That all said, I hate this team.

It's a very conflicting experience.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Nah. Ducks are trying to be competitive now.

3 million above the floor says otherwise.

I do understand not spending on bad ufa acquisitions though.

Cam Fowler wants to be traded from what I have read.

 

[Andy99]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852399773791187148

Just saw this…let’s hope he’s just hungover from the Halloween party lol…otherwise he ain’t lasting 82 games being F1 on L1 lol…put him back at 2C…

 

[Gurglesons]

I think this could be a likeable team tbh but Sullivan makes it disgusting.

Maybe later in the season after the trades we get some kind of combination of this…

McGroarty - Crosby - Rakell
Koivunen - Malkin - Rust
Bunting - Hayes - Puustinen
Lizotte - Poulin - Pono

Graves - Letang
Pickering - Karlsson
Aho - St Ivany

They’ll suck. But at least you got some young players that are exciting.

 

[Deport Ogie]

Id encourage any students here to take advantage of that. Its a great way to see multiple hall of famers on the ice. If you're a new fan, this will make you a bigger one.

As a man in my 40's with gray hairs who's taking a graduate degree online, I'm going to try this and see what happens.