I had to put this somewhere, why not where we talk about how stupid the management is...
Let me just take this moment right now to inform you all that #Fleurydeservedbetter
The Pittsburgh Penguins let him down this year, not the other way 'round.
JR and the Round Table of Incompetence wasted another year on half-assed "fixes," while continuing to employ washouts like Craig Adams, Rob Scuderi, and the newly useless Chris Kunitz, while ostracizing Beau Bennett, Bobby Farnham and casting them aside to ice Craiggers, and trading the only defenseman who cared enough about the team after Letang, Maatta, and Ehrhoff went down... Because as Lemieux and Burkle said, "We have to get younger, more talented and more skilled." In what universe is trading picks and prospects for rentals and retreads (not to say Winnik was bad, just not the difference between a cup or not, also, GO AWAY BEN LOVEJOY) a way to get younger and more skilled? (Let me give you a hint, it isn't!) These are the same reasons that Shero and Bylsma got the axe last year. I thought we'd get something, anything different, but it's just more of the same in Pittsburgh! It's all about "the brand" for Morehouse and the Pens. What brand? A brand that is proud to barely make the playoffs and bow out in the first round? Do they expect the fans to be happy with that? Screw the brand. I want a team that cares, a team that is built to succeed, not one that is "marketable." The front office, in all their smugness, ought to be ashamed of this trashheap that they've offered us this year, but of course, they are smug, they are content, and their jobs are safe. Average Joe Yinzer will say "W-w-well they lost this many hundred mangames to injury... You can't compete without the players on the ice!" Sure, but you can build a team that has depth and a team that can replace talent with talent, instead of mismanaging your cap space and playing the last TEN games of the season with FIVE defensemen, if you can count Lovejoy and Scuderi as defensemen... Taylor Chorney was one of the best D-men we had these playoffs. Better than half our "Veteran" D. Joe Yinzer says "Well we have too much money tied up in too few players!" Okay, well what is your solution? Trade Malkin? Trade Crosby? Ha! NO. We lose any trade reasonably offered for either of them. Any trade where you offer up the best player is usually you losing that trade, and those two are two of the best. Letang? No one is gonna touch that, plus, he's "marketable" â„¢. It is the job of the GM and the Assistants to figure out how to ice a team to win games regardless of the scenario. With the two Generational Talents this team has, we should never look this bad. The MGMT of the Penguins has wasted years of their talent with mediocre teammates, coaches, executives, etc. Don't even get me started on the Sports media, I'm not going there... (SOD OFF ROB ROSSI!) Ahem, sorry! Anyway, this rant concludes with me saying the Pens brass trashed the team this year and past years and probably for a few future years before someone wakes up and realizes it's happened. Hopefully by then, Malkin and Sid won't want to go to a team that will actually give them a chance to win something besides the local golf tournament. /end rant.