Post-Game Talk: Pens get cement shoes on the Island

Ugene Magic

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I might have like 1 goal that's on Jarry, and even that one is questionable.

1. Pageau left all alone back door.
2. Duclair is the only semi questionable one and Jarry had to respect Palmieri.
3. Letang own goal given to Lee.
4. Cizikas tip in ala Crosby is certainly not on him.
5. Cizikas 2nd goal deflected off of Karlssons stick.
6. Empty netter...

So you all are sleeping on the job.
 

Dennis Reynolds

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Get Malkin at least one winger who isn't a completely useless piece of shit.

Tomasino is an AHLer.
O'Connor is an AHLer.
Glass is an AHLer.

Stop putting plugs next to Malkin.

f***, even Kevin f***ing Hayes is better than any of those three useless clowns.
 
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Ryder71

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Get Malkin at least one winger who isn't a completely useless piece of shit.

Tomasino is an AHLer.
O'Connor is an AHLer.
Glass is an AHLer.

Stop putting plugs next to Malkin.

f***, even Kevin f***ing Hayes is better than any of those three useless clowns.
He has Bunting who's doing just fine. 12 points in the last 12 games, that's excellent production.
 

Big Friggin Dummy

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I turned it off after the 1st. Saw the Isles scored 3 in like a 5 minute span.

Those high flying Isles, man. Always a threat to explode offensively. :laugh:

Sully's trash. DOC's trash. Jarry's trash. Team's trash defensively. If the near 40 year old Sid's line isn't humming, this one line team's dead in the water.

Rerun of the same episode we've seen 300 times. Tonight's probably gonna be rerun 301. :laugh:
 

HandshakeLine

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Most of the Metro is kryptonite to the Pens. They only really do well against Columbus and Philly.
Probably because Columbus and Philly are as bad as us, if not worse. :laugh:

Isles are the very definition of a team that runs a system and builds around its strengths. I don't really like their style of play, but they execute a plan pretty well. They're not ever going to be the Isles of yesteryear, or anything fun, but they know what side of the bread their butter is on. I don't think we can say the same.


Team's trash defensively
In retrospect we really should not have fired Gonchar and Martin.
 

Big Friggin Dummy

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Probably because Columbus and Philly are as bad as us, if not worse. :laugh:

Isles are the very definition of a team that runs a system and builds around its strengths. I don't really like their style of play, but they execute a plan pretty well. They're not ever going to be the Isles of yesteryear, or anything fun, but they know what side of the bread their butter is on. I don't think we can say the same.



In retrospect we really should not have fired Gonchar and Martin.
Whaddaya mean? David Quinn, of such recent exploits as manning a Sharks team to like a .325 record over two seasons, wasn't the solution? But he's a good ol' BAHSTIN boy!
 

Victor Z

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This team really misses Petts -- although he's only a mid-pairing guy on a good team, on THIS team he's Rod Freakin' Langway and our left-side D is an absolute joke without him there; any team playing POJ, Gryz & Graves (in that order, no less) is tanking whether they admit it or not. I'm not really sure what a "Nathan Clurman" is, but he couldn't be any worse than what Sully is currently going with.

Petts being available would help stabilize whichever one of our erratic RHD he is paired with, and push some AHL-level scrub (POJ or Shea) out of the lineup.
 

edog37

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Stop trying to make Jarry happen. Even in the games he wins he’s underwhelming. He stinks. I don’t even feel like dissecting anything else because it doesn’t matter when we continuously parade out this clown and expect him to not f***ing suck
They’re positioning him for either a trade or a buyout.
 

Icarium

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Score a goal seconds before the end of the second period to get within one.

Proceed to utterly fail to show up for the third period.

Experience Mike Sullivan hockey.

Three of our lines had xGF% of less than 6%, two even had zero, yes zero percent. And the top line wasn't so bad in terms of expected goals but allowed three actual goals while scoring zero. Against a team that was recently annihilated by the Sabres, no less.

Yes, Jarry mostly sucks but with the way the Pens are defending they would be going nowhere even if they had the best goalie in the world. Dumb error after dumb error. Gryz being an actual NHL D-man is an inspiring story of a sort - to be so bad at your job and still convince someone to pay you millions year after year. I envy the man.

Malkin had a decent hop in his step after a few days break and made some nice passes but his wingers wouldn't score in a brothel except for Bunting who mostly scores away from Geno anyway, or so it seems.

Trade Rakell while he is hot and whoever else you can find buyers for, deluding yourself that one good line (which often gets exposed defensively nevertheless) makes a playoff team despite said team having one of the worst defenses in the league and questionable goaltending is a lunacy.
 

BusinessGoose

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Score a goal seconds before the end of the second period to get within one.

Proceed to utterly fail to show up for the third period.

Experience Mike Sullivan hockey.

.
It's disgusting

Zero urgency
Zero execution
Zero accountability

Just f***in around for 60mins and no one cares about failing

Imagine if Sullivan was in charge of the Space Race for NASA

We would be posting in cryllic
 

Jag68Sid87

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Puljujarvi has sat out 12 of our last 13 games. During that span, Beauvillier has 2 goals, zero assists and O'Connor has zero goals and four assists. And these are the options for Mike Sullivan to play on the Malkin line since Tomasino is too good offensively to play there (or something).

AND, if he ever decided to put Puljujarvi back in the lineup, Tomasino would be the odd man out. You know it, I know it.

We can only go as far as our coach's lineup decisions.
 

Darren McCord

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I might have like 1 goal that's on Jarry, and even that one is questionable.

1. Pageau left all alone back door.
2. Duclair is the only semi questionable one and Jarry had to respect Palmieri.
3. Letang own goal given to Lee.
4. Cizikas tip in ala Crosby is certainly not on him.
5. Cizikas 2nd goal deflected off of Karlssons stick.
6. Empty netter...

So you all are sleeping on the job.

And the 7th goal that’s called back. He had plenty of time to set up for that and they lucked out that they called interference.

Goalies are allowed to make a save though.

Jarry has like 4.00 GA

Im tired of complaining about him and also tired of people defending. He sux and should just be ignored at this point.
 

BlindWillyMcHurt

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For those crying about the goalie and not the coach or team in front of him:


11.5 million just doesn't buy you what it used to.

But a bit like Jarry and the Penguins... if NYR doesn't just hand him an asinine, window-crippling contract then what do they do? The market is just SO bad for quality goaltending (whatever that is)... you can't NOT give that money to somebody!
 

Big Friggin Dummy

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I'll never not find it funny that Ragamuffin of all people is steadfast in their "GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT!" defense of Jarry, a guy who is a dollar store MAF without the personality or durability. :laugh:
 
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