AHL: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins: '24-'25 The Players Sully Hates

[Randy Butternubs]

What’s going on with him? I haven’t watched a minute of Wilkes…is he playing well but just not scoring and unlucky on a few bounces, or is his overall play not up to snuff yet?

The two periods I watched of him were not encouraging. See above.

edit to add: his -2 last night weren't because of his play. Larsson should've had the first goal (McG had nothing to do with it). And the second goal against was an empty netter.

 

[SomeDude]

What’s going on with him? I haven’t watched a minute of Wilkes…is he playing well but just not scoring and unlucky on a few bounces, or is his overall play not up to snuff yet?

He’s the new Alek Stojanov.

 

[Andy99]

The two periods I watched of him were not encouraging. See above.

edit to add: his -2 last night weren't because of his play. Larsson should've had the first goal (McG had nothing to do with it). And the second goal against was an empty netter.

I guess he’s getting himself ready to play on the big club then, where putrid play is mandatory…

 

[Randy Butternubs]

McG Katchouk Koivunen
Bemstrom Broz Poulin
Gruden Koppanen Andonovski
Imama Ansons Hayes

Aho Hollowell
Pickering Clurman
Lee Brickey

Jarry
Larsson


Jarry made a save.

Annnnd the stream is down. aaaaaand it's back.

No Rachel tonight. Instead we got this bro looking like Ham from The Sandlot.

I did not watch last night but the announcer just said that McG was their best player last night.

Aaaaaand the stream is down again...

Off to the PK.

Stream down yet again. why tf am I paying for this?

Gruden with a hell of a PK shift and almost set up Ansons for a goal.

 

[Jacob]

He did have 4 shots and was on with the net empty so he must’ve been alright.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Jarry with a timely, difficult save. Believe it or not.

 

[Malkinstheman]

McG with a prime chance in front of the net but flubs the shot. Seems like hes been messing up quite a few passes/shots

 

[Randy Butternubs]

PP time

I'm not entirely sure why Ando is on PP1 but he just wrecked a dman after that faceoff.

McG missed a wide open net on the PP. Hit the side of the net.

Welp, end of 1. Not too much good or bad to report on anyone.

 

[Malkinstheman]

My main takeaway from the first was that Brickley seemed kind of lost in the D zone. Kept making bizarre plays

 

[Jacob]

My main takeaway from the first was that Brickley seemed kind of lost in the D zone. Kept making bizarre plays

A guy named Scooter isn’t going to be making high-IQ decisions at anything.

 

[Al Smith]

Our former high first round defenseman is now holding down the Crunch D, his sixth ahl team in the last six years. Sad thing is his play pretty much predicted this career path for the start.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Our former high first round defenseman is now holding down the Crunch D, his sixth ahl team in the last six years. Sad thing is his play pretty much predicted this career path for the start.

Reddit had a thread this summer about "biggest draft bust" and they selected Pouliot. I thought there had to be someone else that would be a "better" pick for that award, but no, I think they got it right.

#15 (Koppanen?) with a nifty dish to Gruden for a sly redirect on goal. Still 0-0 though.

Poo goal! Nice plays by that line of he, Broz, and Bem.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Poulin scores

Nice shot

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Pickering got walked and had to take a penalty. Might've been the shift after the goal.

I don't know if the PK is good or if the Syracuse PP sucks, but they've had basically no chances on the PPs.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Jarrys been solid

Andonovoski has been really dangerous on the PK this game

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Jarrys been solid

I didn't like the Penguins re-signing him and I honestly don't really like him as a player... but I hope he recovers from whatever this funk is.

To the PP! The first one was decent.

PP2 gets it done. Nice redirect by Hayes. And a nice pass by... Hollowell?

2-1 now, I missed that goal as I was looking at something on Zillow.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Hayes tips it on on the PP

Really like Broz's shoot first mentality

 

[Al Smith]

I didn't like the Penguins re-signing him and I honestly don't really like him as a player... but I hope he recovers from whatever this funk is.

To the PP! The first one was decent.

PP2 gets it done. Nice redirect by Hayes. And a nice pass by... Hollowell?

My first thought is his reconditioning stint gets in the way of playing opportunity for their young goalies. But from a business perspective, with as much $$ as you’ve got invested in Jarry, and given his current market value, you’re going to try anything to fix his play. We’ll see if attempting to boost his confidence against lesser comp works.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Murashov is playing tonight in Wheeling btw. I might be able to switch to that game at intermission or once this WBS game is over.

Broz may have scored on the PP with like 0 seconds left. Yes he did!

 

[Malkinstheman]

Broz gets a buzzer beater

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I've admittedly not really been focusing on the third period. It's the beers and me looking at Zillow.

Anyway, Murashov has now let in a goal halfway thru the 2nd. Only 8 SA though. It's a light workload which I know can be an issue for goalies. 2 GA on 9 SA now. Will have to see the highlights to see what that's about.

This WBS announcer uses "bebops" as a verb and I can't help but think of the anime.

Speaking of this announcer, when I had Twitter he was quite responsive to my questions. Seems like a cool dude.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Nothing really noteworthy in the 3rd so far

 

[Malkinstheman]

Gruden's been getting good looks but keeps fumbling the puck

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Gruden's been getting good looks but keeps fumbling the puck

I'm convinced he's a 4th liner in the NHL. At the very least the 13th forward.

I've been wrong many times before though. Said the same of Bellerive.

 

[Malkinstheman]

I'm convinced he's a 4th liner in the NHL. At the very least the 13th forward.

I've been wrong many times before though. Said the same of Bellerive.

Yeah Id agree. He was pretty good on the PK this game as well