I dont bet against Sid on dragging this team to the playoffs. Especially if Jarry keeps this up. High odds? No, but its not impossible.
GDT: Pens vs Devils
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It'd be one thing if this team had a stock of long term prospects in place and winning meant building upon a culture and all that shit, but this team's on the cusp of half a decade-plus of unavoidable misery and there's like no young guys playing to benefit from the "Hey guys, winning's important, don't forget that" invaluable lessons.
The penguins have only 13 games left in the regular season, but I'm sure the Fenway Sucks Group would do cartwheels if the penguins would make the playoffs. It would be funny if the Rangers would miss out, but the penguins get in.It'd be one thing if this team had a stock of long term prospects in place and winning meant building upon a culture and all that shit, but this team's on the cusp of half a decade-plus of unavoidable misery and there's like no young guys playing to benefit from the "Hey guys, winning's important, don't forget that" invaluable lessons.
People don't hate FSG enough imo. Idiot coaches, idiot FO people, those come and go. But we might be stuck with an incompetent and apathetic ownership group for a decade or more, and that sucks shit.
Every single public facing statement and move FSG has made since taking over has been ratf***ed.
Every single public facing statement and move FSG has made since taking over has been ratf***ed.
I would be very happy to see a Pens/Caps round one match up. That team doesnt scare me. Even if it was a blowout loss to them, it would be fun to see Sid go post season nuts on the Caps again.
The chances of this team making the playoffs is less than 5%. Let's not get carried away here, this is not a good team. They aren't gonna sustain this shooting % nor is Jarry Ken Dryden. They go to Dallas, FLA, St. Louis, NJ and TB, no way are they winning all those games. Eventually their luck will run out. Like last year we're trending to the nowhere zone.
Yeah, it kinda is. They'd likely have to win out. IF that happens (which it won't) they would tie the '93 Penguins for the longest winning streak in NHL history. You seriously think THIS team can do that?
They dont have win out. Only the Habs have been decent the last 10 games out of all the teams ahead of them. Wings are 3-7-0 and the Bruins are 3-6-1 for example. Is it likely they make it in? No. But its more likely they make it in than dropping to a top 5 pick at this point.
They'd have to go 11-2 or something like that and that wouldn't guarantee a playoff birth. This is not a good team. They're gonna have to have over an .800 winning % the rest of the year when they aren't even .500? It's not sustainable. But I agree we will not get a top five pick, heck maybe not even top 10. But the coach hasem playin!
Rangers and Habs are 8th and 9th in the conference, the Rags have two games in hand on us and the Habs have three. That's not even counting CLB who also have three games in hand..
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The Pens max is 92 points. (.561)
If 3 of these teams pass that mark, the Pens are done, even if they win out. Two are above it right now, and the Habs and Rangers have been strong in their last 10. They may raise the bar.
Hell, the Pens would lose a 92-point tie-breaker with their low RW count.
So let's use your scenario where they don't have to win out. Let's say they win 11 of 13, and finish with 88 points.
That's .537. Four of these teams are at or above that line right now. And again, the Pens would lose the tie-breaker still.
It is very unlikely that they'd get in with that. They'd need a perfect storm of results.
It's more likely that they need 90+ points. 12 of 13 wins minimum.
Told yinz months ago they'd go on a dumb-ass heater and still miss the playoffs and people were like "no, you're just being too cynical as usual."
People talking playoffs are outside their minds. Not only does the math make it next to impossible but once they play a few good teams, not a beat up NJ team with Glass as their 2C, they will lose.
Nothing about this team suggests they can go on some record breaking winning streak.
Nothing about this team suggests they can go on some record breaking winning streak.
But everything about this team suggests they will go on a completely futile winning streak that only puts us farther back in the draft order.
I too hate FSG
They’re nothing but a bunch of incompetent trust fund twats who only bought the team because they thought it’d be an easy shoe-in for winning more Cups/a license to make more $$$.
Meanwhile they clearly have no idea how running a successful hockey team really works. Or about how hard it actually is to win a Cup.
As I’ve said before, the only “on ice adversity” these dumb schmucks have faced is not being able to drive their Porsches in the winter.
We hardly feel like the same franchise anymore. We’ve become so cold, sterile, soulless, and have no had real identity for years under FSG. Not to mention we’re boring as shit to watch 95% of the season and have been for years….
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I too hate FSG
They’re nothing but a bunch of incompetent trust fund twats who only bought the team because they thought it’d be an easy shoe-in for winning more Cups/a license to make more $$$.
Meanwhile they clearly have no idea how running a successful hockey team really works. Or about how hard it actually is to win a Cup.
As I’ve said before, the only “on ice adversity” these dumb schmucks have faced is not being able to drive their Porsches in the winter.
We hardly feel like the same franchise anymore. We’ve become so cold, sterile, soulless, and have no had real identity for years under FSG. Not to mention we’re boring as shit to watch 95% of the season and have been for years….
And Kyle Dubas is the perfect corporate douche to lead the franchise for them.
The Core, Rusty and Sullivan are the three key pieces that have been here since are last playoff series victory. I think the blame is largely on them. They don't want change, so this is what we're left with. Allowing this group to remain as long as they have now is managements issue. There needs to be changes this off season.I too hate FSG
They’re nothing but a bunch of incompetent trust fund twats who only bought the team because they thought it’d be an easy shoe-in for winning more Cups/a license to make more $$$.
Meanwhile they clearly have no idea how running a successful hockey team really works. Or about how hard it actually is to win a Cup.
As I’ve said before, the only “on ice adversity” these dumb schmucks have faced is not being able to drive their Porsches in the winter.
We hardly feel like the same franchise anymore. We’ve become so cold, sterile, soulless, and have no had real identity for years under FSG. Not to mention we’re boring as shit to watch 95% of the season and have been for years….
It's pretty astonishing how a team with so many veterans and a supposedly top coach finds it so much easier to get results when it has nothing to play for. Sure, this is true for teams in general but in the case of the Penguins, the difference is so stark that such wins expose their general mental fragility just as much the gazillion lost two plus goals leads in games that actually mattered.
