Pittsburgh Sports Media Gibberish: Bombulie ‎to restore order @ the Trib

[Waffle Fries]

I don't believe anyone who claims they have information on the futures of JR or MJ because I think it's largely dependent on how the rest of the playoffs go.

If my choice is between JR and Guerin, I go with JR every time.

 

[tom_servo]

If my choice is between JR and Guerin, I go with JR every time.

For now. I feel like we're one bad move away from choosing the mystery box.

 

[WayneSid9987]

I don't believe anyone who claims they have information on the futures of JR or MJ because I think it's largely dependent on how the rest of the playoffs go.

If my choice is between JR and Guerin, I go with JR every time.

Really? Pens could easily lose the next 2 but i suppose it's how they lose and the fight, even with a depleted lineup but still. I would think Mario's mind is made up. It's probably gonna be Babcock or stay the course with MJ imo.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

I think if you start scratching Scuderi you lower his trading value in the summer. I think that's the issue. Or I hope it is. There might only be a couple of teams dumb enough to want him, and if they realize that he's not even better than Chorney or Dumoulin in the eyes of the Penguins, they'd be less inclined to want to acquire him.

Chicago can scratch Vermette because he's a rental. I don't know what LA intended with Richards, other than to hope he gets sick of riding the bus and retires.

Anaheim's fine with scratching Wisniewski even though he's signed through 2017. Refreshing to see a team make roster decisions based on performance rather than tenure or contract status.

Bottom line is that we should be icing the best team to win right now. We gave away a lot of quality futures to that end. If we were more concerned about the team from next season on, we sure as hell shouldn't have been making trades like the ones for Lovejoy and Winnik.

 

[Waffle Fries]

Really? Pens could easily lose the next 2 but i suppose it's how they lose and the fight, even with a depleted lineup but still. I would think Mario's mind is made up. It's probably gonna be Babcock or stay the course with MJ imo.

I don't expect us to make it out of the series, but if by some chance we do, it'd be hard for an organization to justify firing people in those positions after a team overachieved. Meanwhile if we implode and lose the next two games by large deficits, it might be hard to justify keeping them.

I would like to think Babcock is an option, but it really seems to good to be true. In Babcock's case, I'd fire everyone and give him control both coaching and personnel wise.

 

[billybudd]

If JR (isn't fired)/(doesn't retire), he's going to come down with some sort of "health problems" and take a "leave of absence" that just so happens to never end.

 

[Coastal Kev]

It's not a trend, it's a reflection of society's demand for immediate information. Whether it's called Twitter or Twitter 2.0 or whatever replaces it, it's not ever going away. So you can either accept that, or keep banging your cane against the ceiling.

You are right, it isn't going anywhere since most people in the world are indeed followers. I simply choose not to be.

 

[JQR]

You are right, it isn't going anywhere since most people in the world are indeed followers. I simply choose not to be.

I bet you would have said the same thing if you had been alive when the telephone was invented. Or when people started using carrier pigeons. Fast and efficient transfer of information is for lemmings!! To hell with smoke signals! Marathon or die!! (Or in the case of Pheidippides, both!!)

 

[tom_servo]

You are right, it isn't going anywhere since most people in the world are indeed followers. I simply choose not to be.

Twitter is dumb, and you're a free thinker.

I think we needed to be alerted before dealing with an intellect of your level.

 

[Son Goku]

Heard someone on facebook say they heard from a "very good source" that Letang is retiring at the end of the season.

 

[Penguinator]

Heard someone on facebook say they heard from a "very good source" that Letang is retiring at the end of the season.

Well... It could very well be a good source...

"... for me to poop on!" - Triumph

 

[billybudd]

I heard on Facebook that a prince in sub Saharan Africa would share his fortune with anyone who gave him five grand US. Seemed legit.

 

[MtlPenFan]

http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/


Free article, so enjoy.

Cole's gonna love this...

Look at the giant pile of **** the players feed DK on Lovejoy's play on St. Louis. This goes against every ****ing thing I know about X's and O's. What a *********, Mickey ****ing Mouse organization this is, from top to bottom. There's so much wrong with it I don't even know where to ****ing start.


Start with the puck at the right point, where Matt Hunwick raps it hard down the boards. As it curls behind Marc-Andre Fleury’s net, Martin St. Louis picks it up with his back to the rink. Ben Lovejoy closes on him quickly but goes to St. Louis’ left and allows him an easy lane to spin to the right and emerge toward the goal line.

It looks like a terrible play by Lovejoy, but it’s no worse than a C-minus in reality. That’s because the defensive system of Johnston and assistant coach Gary Agnew requires the defenseman to take precisely that position when the puck is being wrapped around like that. The opposing player is not to be allowed to emerge on the other side, even if that means the defenseman must “sell out,” according to one player.

And no, that player wasn’t Lovejoy. Here’s what Lovejoy had to say when I asked:

Regardless, in a perfect world, Lovejoy not only turns back St. Louis but also gains much better body position on him than what followed. It certainly looked awful.

When a defenseman does as Lovejoy did, a forward is expected to pick up that forward. As the video shows, that could have been any one of Maxim Lapierre, Nick Spaling or Daniel Winnik, all of whom are paid to be defensive specialists, by the way. No one was close.

From there, it’s mostly chaos through the crease until New York’s terrific 22-year-old rookie winger, Kevin Hayes, tapped it home in front of an apparently comatose Paul Martin.

(I’ll pause here to remind that the concept of rookie wingers remains very real with at least 29 other franchises and that it only seems like Pittsburgh hasn’t seen one of note since current Florida winger Jaromir Jagr’s mullet-headed great grandfather.)

I can’t say what Martin was thinking. He wasn’t available for interviews, which isn’t like him at all.

 

[plaidchuck]

That article is just to make Joe Yinzer feel better. "The rangers only won by a.goal! They wont win the cup anyways!"

Funny how he is.smug about no one being fired yet he mentions the team needing to be younger with more energy, yet this exact staff did nothing to help that.

 

[SwordofStMichael]

A few segments prior to DK calling in to the show Madden basically said
"...someone in the Pens organization just told me JR and MJ will be back and that all the rumors are un-true..."

So...that is the Pens (probably McMillan?) seeing the PensBlog rumors and responding via Madden.

There was due diligence done on this.

OK, so, how are the bloggers going to counter...maybe with another that's soo coool duuude photoshop perhaps?

 

[IcedCapp]

DK is right and he's wrong.

He's right in that nothing "seismic" needs to happen to the roster (assuming we're talking about Crosby, Malkin. Hornqvist, Perron, Letang, Maatta, Pouliot, etc...) as the core, but a seismic shift in management's philosophy and team building methods is absolutely required.

If management doesn't change their approach, they'll never get the speed/youth/size/etc they need.

 

[SwordofStMichael]

oh...
...and why don't all the little hockey bloggers call into TheFan after games anymore? they used to all the time

What? No Filiponi or Mueller to kiss your ass? tell you how smart you are?
What happened? you work nights now? past your bedtime?

Can't go toe-2-toe with Kingerski?

TheFan, after all these years and what you've been begging for, FINALLY has a knowledgeable hockey guy on late night and all the little hockey blog-xeprts never call
crickets. crickets.
Why not? oh, you wanted that gig? right? is that it, really? so soorry
No worries, maybe Chris Mack will give them some air time...

frauds

 

[ColePens]

I have no words. All I can think of is when Lovejoy was re-acquired his comment on MJ's defensive scheme: "Heh... I never thought to play defense that way but i guess it works."

I'll try like hell to find the quote because I know it was in a Lovejoy thread. That comment makes me think the d-zone scheme is stupid and those quotes are equally as stupid.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Why the hate for bloggers?

 

[MrBurghundy]

DK: (I’ll pause here to remind that the concept of rookie wingers remains very real with at least 29 other franchises and that it only seems like Pittsburgh hasn’t seen one of note since current Florida winger Jaromir Jagr’s mullet-headed great grandfather

DK: Bennett sucks!

 

[SuburbanRhythm]

oh...
...and why don't all the little hockey bloggers call into TheFan after games anymore? they used to all the time

What? No Filiponi or Mueller to kiss your ass? tell you how smart you are?
What happened? you work nights now? past your bedtime?

Can't go toe-2-toe with Kingerski?

TheFan, after all these years and what you've been begging for, FINALLY has a knowledgeable hockey guy on late night and all the little hockey blog-xeprts never call
crickets. crickets.
Why not? oh, you wanted that gig? right? is that it, really? so soorry
No worries, maybe Chris Mack will give them some air time...

frauds

Possible they agree with Kingerski?

But listening to 93.7 for analysis makes me question anybody.

 

[Coastal Kev]

DK is right and he's wrong.

He's right in that nothing "seismic" needs to happen to the roster (assuming we're talking about Crosby, Malkin. Hornqvist, Perron, Letang, Maatta, Pouliot, etc...) as the core, but a seismic shift in management's philosophy and team building methods is absolutely required.

If management doesn't change their approach, they'll never get the speed/youth/size/etc they need.

But didn't they say THIS LAST OFFSEASON???

Instead, we had a full season of Craig Adams when Sunqvist looked ready.

We signed Ehrhoff when we could have played a full season of Harrington, Dumo or Chorney.

We signed Comeau, Downie and never tried to trade Martin, Scuds or Kunitz.

Remember also we would have never been able to trade for Perron if Duper doesn't have a medical issue.

We traded TWO picks for WINNIK...... I still don't know what he brings to table.

WE TRADED DESPRES who was young, physical and tough as nails for a 31 year old castoff from........ US two years ago!


So per DK, we are NOW supposed to trust our organization to make the right moves????? DK is turning out to be more of a shill than Rossi ever was.

 

[Joejosh999]

My Lord, DK in full water-carrying mode.
I thought I could hear heads exploding here when I read the Lovejoy defense LOL!

Actually there's a great rant in Comments, calling out Lovejoy by a guy named BK. Classic.

'Fess up, Cole, MTL, that BK guy's you right?

 

[IcedCapp]

My Lord, DK in full water-carrying mode.
I thought I could hear heads exploding here when I read the Lovejoy defense LOL!

Actually there's a great rant in Comments, calling out Lovejoy by a guy named BK. Classic.

'Fess up, Cole, MTL, that BK guy's you right?

One of those two is BK, yes. You'll have to guess which.

 

[Joejosh999]

One of those two is BK, yes. You'll have to guess which.

Well, if you're serious - I knew it!!!