This Pittsburgh Penguins Act is Getting Old

[BB88]

It drives me nuts to see the last few years of Sid, Malkin and Letsng totally wasted because of ownerships’ refusal to fire an awful coach who does not belong and overstayed his welcome.

You can change the coach but don’t kid yourself and think that’s a scary team

 

[Offtheboard412]

Sullivan has been the Pens coach since late 2015 that's absurd.

All of his success with this organization came in his first 3 seasons. They haven't even managed to win a playoff series since 2018 and yet he is still here. It's truly baffling.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

They're good defensively but just too old to be offensively dangerous, other than Crosby. Especially apparent on the pp. Watching this gradual decline is tough.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

You can change the coach but don’t kid yourself and think that’s a scary team

For sure, but at least we would have a bot of structure.... Right now we don't have anything, and his dumbass assistants can't even draw a play on a board...

 

[Headshot77]

Karlsson is exactly how this team should had spent 10 mils, eh?

I mean, I can't think of a better way to spend 10 mil tbh.

 

[Penguin Suited Up]

Karlsson is exactly how this team should had spent 10 mils, eh?

Karlsson was phenomenal when he started the season. The coaching staff has coached all of the creativity out of his game.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Middle of the pack teams are contending for a playoff spot. The Penguins aren't.

IMO - the current core keeps the Pens in the 10-15 draft spot in the league, which is technically the "middle" third of the league. Typically, teams can languish in the "mushy" middle for a long time. Pens haven't won a play-off series since 2018, so if this goes for 2-3 more years that would essentially be a decade of being a 1st round speedbump or not making the P/O's. It's a tough spot to be in in a great core's life-cycle.

 

[Fatass]

Their rebuild phase should be now while they still have decent years left on the core group. But there still competing for a playoff spot. Sane for Washington.

Hard to properly rebuild with the elite (although older) core. Club will likely be drafting 10-15 while those guys are still around. IMO the Pens are stuck in a holding pattern until Crosby is done.

 

[nturn06]

I mean, I can't think of a better way to spend 10 mil tbh.

You do realize that EK had one solid season in the past 6 years, don't you? Expecting him to repeat is not realistic, especially at his age.

 

[Sidgeni Malkby]

Pens top players are still good and they're one of the leagues best 5on5 teams. It makes no sense to blow it up this season, let alone last season. The teams issue is obvious and his last name starts with R

Rullivan?

Last year they barely missed the playoffs. It's easy to see why Dubas would think a few tweaks could make them better.

 

[BallardEra]

Tonight’s game against the Isles looks like a 3 point game to me.

 

[AvroArrow]

The natural cycle of sports, nothing to be sad about for Pens fans. 3 cups in the Crosby era, every other fan base would kill for that. But it's time to move on from these guys and rebuild, it's a waste of their last few good years and it's just poor asset management. Crosby can still fetch an absolute haul, would be a monumental mistake to not move him at this point. Dubas should talk to him and see if he's willing to waive, which I think he would be. He could still make a couple deep playoff runs on another team.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

You do realize that EK had one solid season in the past 6 years, don't you? Expecting him to repeat is not realistic, especially at his age.

In fairness, it was a spectacular season, but your point is sound.

 

[mr figgles]

The natural cycle of sports, nothing to be sad about for Pens fans. 3 cups in the Crosby era, every other fan base would kill for that. But it's time to move on from these guys and rebuild, it's a waste of their last few good years and it's just poor asset management. Crosby can still fetch an absolute haul, would be a monumental mistake to not move him at this point. Dubas should talk to him and see if he's willing to waive, which I think he would be. He could still make a couple deep playoff runs on another team.

They better hope he is willing to waive, because the rest of that roster is immovable. He’s their only chance to net some decent assets to start a rebuild.

 

[BallardEra]

 

[KCC]

Karlsson got pressured and his brain shut off. lol.

 

[Calderon]

Was Pulju taken out of the lineup in favor of Puustinen or why isn't he playing tonight?

 

[SomeDude]

Was Pulju taken out of the lineup on favor of Puustinen or why isn't he playing tonight?

Mike Sullivan prefers AHL all-stars like Matt Phillips and Jansen Harkins and Colin White.

 

[PaulD]

Crosby playing for one season with his childhood team (Habs) would be insane!

Aves or Bruins would be better. Play off teams

You can change the coach but don’t kid yourself and think that’s a scary team

Thst maybe do but it doesn't translate to job security for a coach.

 

[jcs0218]

Dubas isn't in any hurry to fire Sullivan.

If he fires Sullivan, brings in his own coach, and the team still sucks, then Dubas will start being under the microscope.

Why would he want to be under any microscopes when the fan-base will continue to blame Sullivan (and overlook Dubas) when Pittsburgh performs poorly?

Pittsburgh's roster isn't very good.

It is better for Dubas's own survival to allow people to continue to make Sullivan the scape-goat rather than have any attention shifted to the poor roster (which is Dubas job to fix).

 

[SomeDude]

Dubas isn't in any hurry to fire Sullivan.

If he fires Sullivan, brings in his own coach, and the team still sucks, then Dubas will start being under the microscope.

Why would he want to be under any microscopes when the fan-base will continue to blame Sullivan (and overlook Dubas) when Pittsburgh performs poorly?

He also completely thinks Mike Sullivan is a great coach because he says things like expected goals per game a lot.

 

[jcs0218]

He also completely thinks Mike Sullivan is a great coach because he says things like expected goals per game a lot.

I remember when everyone thought of Dubas as a genius because of hockey fans collective fetish when it comes to advanced statistics (and overlooking the eye-test).

Well, Dubas's advanced statistics won a total of 1 playoff series in 7 seasons.

 

[PaulD]

I remember when everyone thought of Dubas as a genius because of hockey fans collective fetish when it comes to advanced statistics (and overlooking the eye-test).

Well, Dubas's advanced statistics won a total of 1 playoff series in 7 seasons.

there were also tons of us that laughed at Shanahan for replacing Lou with Dubas and thinking he was Brad Pitt from "Money Ball"

 

[SomeDude]

I remember when everyone thought of Dubas as a genius because of hockey fans collective fetish when it comes to advanced statistics (and overlooking the eye-test).

Well, Dubas's advanced statistics won a total of 1 playoff series in 7 seasons.

It's a great feeling having your team's future in the palms of the guy who signed Ryan Graves for the better part of a decade.

 

[BallardEra]

Is Malkin playing hurt? He seems like a shadow of his former self.