Post-Game Talk: Pens/Isles Game 1: Home Ice + Good Matchup all for nothing

[sovietsanta87]

I dont see the parallels to the last few years except that we lost. Last couple years we didnt generate any chances and struggled to score. We had chances in spades today. Just didnt finish at times and we didnt keep up the intensity.

 

[LOGiK]

Jarry was MAF-bad. Rust was awful. Jake was awful. Matheson was awful. Petts had a good 1st period then spent the rest of the game putzing around like a baby giraffe.

Sid, Letang and Kap were great. Stick tap to Carter as well, though he's clearly best suited for the 3C role.

Ah well. Really wanted to go to the Island up 2-0 because we need to take advantage of home ice but y'know. It's Penguins playoff hockey™.

Marc Andre Jurray

 

[The Sodfather]

The flip side is it wasn't like they were horribly outplayed like they were two years ago. Jarry needs to be better obviously and they need to cash in on their PP chances.

 

[Empoleon8771]

This game should have been a 2-0 or 2-1 win for the Penguins because none of the goals Jarry gave up (specifically in regulation, but can include the OT goal) are goals that a NHL starting goalie should be giving up. Especially not 4 of them in a game.

 

[Ogrezilla]

That's what pissing away 3 PPs will do to a team.

Pens win if they score on that PP to end the 3rd.

f***ing PP loses us another game.

and Isles win in regulation if they score on their 4 minute powerplay

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

"@Soggy Biscuit still scared of that Zajac / Palmieri deal." - @Gurglesons

@Shady Machine

 

[madinsomniac]

Jesus god Jarry.

I don't know how anyone can criticize anyone but Jarry today. This should have been a 2-0 win, but Jarry gave up 4 bad goals.

sure jarry is tge prime guy, but we still give up way too many stupid turnovers in our own end.... and it’s certainly not Malkin that does it...

 

[BoysofWinter66871]

It's hilarious we all wanted to play the Isles in round 1...

This has sweep written all over again...

Fine if we can dump Sullivan and trade Geno. That's probably what would be talked about if we got swept.

 

[TimmyD]

Yeah, totally. Call up our AHL D-list goalie! That's not a dumb idea at all.

If this is the Jarry we are going to see Legace couldn’t be any worse. All 4 goals were on Jarry today

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

I will say this is as disappointed as I've felt since Game 5 of the ECF in 2016. Luckily that one went differently.

The powerplay could have changed this game. I laugh at allllllllllll the f***ing "pundits" writing about this series in the last week. All of them f***ing pen to paper a bunch of bullshit. It's always been special teams. We score on the powerplay, we play a different game. If we play into that 1 goal game, the Isles feed off of it and as mentioned - they get better. They thrive in the 1 goal games.

Masssssssssssssssssively disappointed.

What did you seriously expect without a key linchpin? I know it's vogue around these parts and Mark Madden's twitter account to say the Pens don't need 71, but we definitely do in the playoff games that matter. That PP was facing soft teams and McCann scored almost all his PP goals against shit teams. Getting 71 back will help a lot.

I don't get the sky is falling crowd. This isn't the same team, and they don't quit or wilt. Jarry makes 2 basic saves and we walk out with a win. This game is on goaltending and a couple mistakes, which we can't afford to make without Malkin's scoring.

 

[Gurglesons]

"@Soggy Biscuit still scared of that Zajac / Palmieri deal." - @Gurglesons

@Shady Machine

lol.

 

[Kristopher Letang]

Do people not watch the game and just look at the final score?

The Penguins showed up ready to play. They win relatively easily with NHL goaltending.

This x100000 lol.

 

[ZorkEnchanter]

How the f*** do you not hug the post there

Well, when you are tentative and haven't located the puck well in the previous 60 min... you tend to have bad positioning.

Funny enough, it probably was the only decent chance he gave up. Turnover, close shot, no gap for Petts, and knuckle ball chip.

 

[radapex]

not that jarry didn't play well. (the murray curse) but you give shooters that much time and space it wont go well for most goalies

They scored multiple goals on unscreened shots from above those circles. Statistically, a goalie gives up somewhere between 0 and 2 of those a season...

 

[Allie Kitsune]

LMAO, FU Murray

Wait, wait, it's not truly HFPens until someone somehow ties this all to Facebook Yinzers who still aren't over MAF yet.

 

[Shaftception]

Just massively disappointed. I guess that's par for the course. When the game is on the line, the Pens don't come through anymore. Maybe the end of the era. Maybe i'm just really pissed off right now.

Pathetic. It just felt that way the whole time. Here's to game 2.

I'd wait to see how the goaltending looks at least in the next game.

We can nitpick every bad aspect of the rest of the team all we want, but truth is even with all that they should've easily won this game if not for some egregiously bad goaltending.

Only question is if that will be the norm or an aberration going forward.

 

[Clare2904]

Just caught up on the game, had to pause. Dick move by Rust to push Pelech into the goalie.

Jarry needs to be 100000% better.

 

[TKalltheTime]

Guys let’s look on the bright side at least the leagues biggest cancer Patric Hörnqvist is off this team!!!1!1

 

[eXile3]

I honestly wouldn't be upset if they started CDS if he was healthy. I don't think they can put Legace in net.

 

[Ogrezilla]

This game should have been a 2-0 or 2-1 win for the Penguins because none of the goals Jarry gave up (specifically in regulation, but can include the OT goal) are goals that a NHL starting goalie should be giving up. Especially not 4 of them in a game.

you don't see many 40 save shutouts. Or however many it would have been before OT even.

 

[metalan2]

sucks to lose, but some of this talk calling this loss sickening etc is just so classic HF

How wasn't it sickening?

 

[Empoleon8771]

sure jarry is tge prime guy, but we still give up way too many stupid turnovers in our own end.... and it’s certainly not Malkin that does it...

Jarry gave up 4 bad goals when an actual NHL caliber starter would be grilled for giving up more than 1 of in a game.

 

[Fatty McLardy]

Goal tending may have been not good but Trotz has made Sullivan his bitch once again...

This is what happens when you don't bring in new coach even after losing 8 of your 9 playoff games and getting embarrassed 2 straight years..this is Bylsma 2.0, great regular season but cannot adapt to the playoffs.

Someone should tell these idiots, theres no shootout in playoff anymore and you will need to score 5 on 5..

 

[DatGuy]

The series is far from over, obviously it gets more difficult with varly coming back. We should get malkin back.

if goaltending becomes an issue, again, go out and get a Talbot, Keumper, Smith, etc a comfort blanked. But again I’m just some guy on the internet what the f*** do I know.

 

[SouthGeorge]

Every year we blame the goalie but what about the system/team defense? Way less skilled team in the Islanders had 41 shots. We only had 1 more shot while taking way more risk and they trapped. So what's really the issue here ?