Post-Game Talk: | Pens vs Sabres Back-End | Get Swept

[Allie Kitsune]

All of those hit posts don't even register a shot. Psssssht.

I get that people think I'm stupid. That's fine.

But then someone needs to actually teach me how to look for what makes us win "The Right Way".

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Sid's up to 38 points on the season. Not bad for a low end 1C who is about on par with a Kuznetsov at this point.

 

[Gurglesons]

Sid's up to 38 points on the season. Not bad for a low end 1C who is about on par with a Kuznetsov at this point.

I'm so annoyed with the fact Rakell was pulled off his line and took so long to go on PP1.

Sid would probably be 3rd in the league in scoring if we had just ran that since day 1 and we would be comfortable in 2nd in the East.

Curious how the next couple games go. If we can dominate the Canes and Rags like we have the other teams in this stretch I'll start believing in this team. The big thing I see that we haven't seen from this team in the past few years is they are fighting through bad performances and still winning. Usually it's been hot or cold.

I also just love our defense outside of Dumoulin.

 

[Gurglesons]

Sorry. Obviously have to give my boy 58 a huge props. With what Kris has committed to this team he deserves his number in the rafters.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I'm so annoyed with the fact Rakell was pulled off his line and took so long to go on PP1.

Sid would probably be 3rd in the league in scoring if we had just ran that since day 1 and we would be comfortable in 2nd in the East.

Yeah it was unnecessary. Even *if* they went with Rust for a couple of games if they thought it would be a spark, the fact they kept those lines for the entirety of the losing streak was ridiculous.

Hopefully Sullivan doesn't pull the plug on it the moment that line has a couple of rough games.

Curious how the next couple games go. If we can dominate the Canes and Rags like we have the other teams in this stretch I'll start believing in this team. The big thing I see that we haven't seen from this team in the past few years is they are fighting through bad performances and still winning. Usually it's been hot or cold.

I also just love our defense outside of Dumoulin.

I'm waiting until the playoffs. I think we've been burned too much by "strong" regular season performances the past handful of seasons and then not repeating that performance when it matters that it won't matter what they do the rest of the regular season, I'll be waiting to see a strong performance when the playoffs begin.

 

[Gurglesons]

Yeah it was unnecessary. Even *if* they went with Rust for a couple of games if they thought it would be a spark, the fact they kept those lines for the entirety of the losing streak was ridiculous.

Hopefully Sullivan doesn't pull the plug on it the moment that line has a couple of rough games.

I'm waiting until the playoffs. I think we've been burned too much by "strong" regular season performances the past handful of seasons and then not repeating that performance when it matters that it won't matter what they do the rest of the regular season, I'll be waiting to see a strong performance when the playoffs begin.

Obviously. I just think we finally have a group of defenseman that makes sense.

We have a group of forwards that makes sense.

If Sullivan can not just f*** it up we have four lines and three pairings that match-up versus trying to force Ruhwedel into the top six, or Matheson and Marino, or Rust on L1, or Kapanen with Malkin.

Carter can be a championship 3C if things swing the right way. I don't think he will be, and I'd like to improve on him, but he has the ability to go off in the playoffs as we've seen the last two years.

The skeleton is there, who knows how it breaks and who knows how much they don't give a shit next week. But they are winning games where they don't give a shit which is something we haven't seen over the past couple years. And I think Petry and Rutta have a TON to do with that. Calm, steady defenseman that make mistakes but don't freak out or play like shit because of it. Haven't had that since Daley and Cole.

 

[metalan2]

Buffalo is seriously dangerous. The only thing they lack is that intangible to close out games. We could have easily been swept.

Sid's up to 38 points on the season. Not bad for a low end 1C who is about on par with a Kuznetsov at this point.

Yea but he's no Tage Thompson.

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

Sidney Crosby is god, there are no other gods.

What happened to Petry, I only caught the highlights?

 

[Ryder71]

To be honest I thought we were very lucky to win. Buffalo controlled a lot of the play tonight. They were quicker to the puck and more dangerous off the rush. We're going to get a very tough test in New Jersey. These young quick teams will give us fits. And I suspect it'll only get worse as the season unfolds. We're winning games, but I see things I don't like. I just can't believe a team with their best players on the wrong side of 35 are going to seriously contend? Toronto's having a great year, and though we beat them the first time out they really handed it to us the last two times we played. Right now they might be the best team in the league. I think against the very best we don't measure up. Sorry to sound cynical but tonight we were pretty fortunate.

 

[Zbynek]

Buffalo fans on their board are salty rn haha. Apparently a take is that after the taking 4/4 points the Pens should rebuild because they’re old and didn’t dominate either game.

Buffalo has been so bad for so long at this point I'm not even sure if we should consider them a rival. Do we dislike them? Don't remember anything notable since Darius Kasparaitis.

Hard to take them or their fans seriously.

Missed the game. Anyone have any cid of the Petry incident?

Here:

A lot of season to go, but Petry avoiding injuy here, and 58 coming back in the same game bides well for our injury curse.

 

[ZorkEnchanter]

As others have said, I really like the Defense makeup. (it's crazy how we go from completely structured and if you notice, we are using the trap sometimes) to nobody covers anyone. Just odd swings by this team- hopefully the current team shows up in the Playoffs.

Dumo... I'm not sure he's going to work himself out of this like Rust. He's really struggling out there... awareness, skating, coverage, passing, and the puck is just a grenade on him this year.

I'd love to see Hallander get some looks... maybe give Carter a maintenance day every few games to keep his legs fresh. Maybe:
McG - Blue - Kap
Arc - Po - Hall

 

[BusinessGoose]

I get that people think I'm stupid. That's fine.

But then someone needs to actually teach me how to look for what makes us win "The Right Way".

I thought you were just making fun of the idiot BUF fan who was trying to troll the last PGT.

Playing the right way is winning the game. Who cares how. It's just a platitude.

I mean, you want to take no penalties, score on your powerplays, outshoot, outhit, and out position your opponents. But you know that.

If you win game 7 of the Stanley Cup because your opponent hit a bunch of posts and outplayed you up and down the ice, and you got one lucky goal to win 1-0. Guess what. You won.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

After our first three sets of back-to-backs, we had a 0-5-1 record in those six games.
Now, after seven sets of back-to-backs, we have a 6-6-2 record in those fourteen games. We've gotten back up to .500.
It makes such a big difference if the team we're playing on the second half is rested or not.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

He probably learned his lesson not to use him late when we're defending a lead.

Sully has yet to send Malkin out for an empty netter this year.

 

[Icarium]

We rode our luck quite a bit but so did the Sabres in the game in which they beat us, plus they are a lot younger, so no wonder they pushed us hard in the second half of the game. Feels nice to have the PP look dangerous and actually score. If Petry is all right I hope he remains on PP1, took some time to click but it finally looks properly threatening.
Crosby's goalscoring prowess 5 on 5 is something to behold, would be nice if Malkin manages to score but as long as the team is winning, this is really not that important. We keep bending but not breaking, gotta wonder what Jarry's third period save percentage since the end of our losing streak is, has it be something incredible because he has been stone cold like 2016 Matt Murray for the most part. And DeSmith manages to look great often enough for a backup, quite a difference from the start of the season.

 

[ronduguayshair]

Sully has yet to send Malkin out for an empty netter this year.

1. Who cares?

2. His defensive blemishes dictate this.

3. Who cares?

 

[HandshakeLine]

1. Who cares?

2. His defensive blemishes dictate this.

3. Who cares?

 

[ronduguayshair]

Sure thing season ticket molder.

In that case Selke candidate Ovechkin likely gets zero such opportunities…oh wait.

4. You cater to your #1 center not your #2 center.

Ovechkin isn't a penalty or defensive turnover waiting to happen.


Even when this team wins a certain section of fanbase is still upset with something. This Malkin should be able to get open net goals too is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read here. But "here" is a favorite player message board forum mascaraing as a Penguins Messageboard.

Russia wouldn't put him out either. Neither would the pens if Sid would get hurt.

PS - The crowd was awesome last night. I hope the game thread matched its intensity.

 

[Rakell67]

Sidney Crosby is god, there are no other gods.

What happened to Petry, I only caught the highlights?

His hand fell off.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

As nuts as Sid's EVP's are, McDavid's got 27 PPP's in 28 games. On pace for 79...
Good lord.

Crosby has...7

 

[Ryder71]

1. Who cares?

2. His defensive blemishes dictate this.

3. Who cares?

Well, a lot of people care because that sort of narrative gets brought up quite a bit, doesn't it? So for you to ask who cares, the answer is many many people apparently.

As nuts as Sid's EVP's are, McDavid's got 27 PPP's in 28 games. On pace for 79...
Good lord.

Crosby has...7

Sid is no McDavid, so let's just set the record straight please. But he's still a very capable first line player. On the level of Kuznetsov.

 

[The Old Master]

How in the hell is petry ok? I assumed he went off the ice directly to a hospital to get wrist surgery. Jesus

he can't hold a pencil but when he is just standing there, he feels fine. just wait till morning when the pain killers wear off.

 

[LOGiK]

4. You cater to your #1 center not your #2 center.

Ovechkin isn't a penalty or defensive turnover waiting to happen.


Even when this team wins a certain section of fanbase is still upset with something. This Malkin should be able to get open net goals too is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read here. But "here" is a favorite player message board forum mascaraing as a Penguins Messageboard.

Russia wouldn't put him out either. Neither would the pens if Sid would get hurt.

PS - The crowd was awesome last night. I hope the game thread matched its intensity.

Is that how empty net situations go?

 

[The Old Master]

Mcginn is a LW and Kap is a RW

kap looks much better on his off side. just say'en

 

[IcedCapp]

Sully has yet to send Malkin out for an empty netter this year.

I’m happy to point out when certain people are criticizing Malkin simply because he’s Malkin, but there was a play Friday night in OT, that, man… we’re on a 4-on-3 pp, it’s after the first change, so Carter is on for Sid but Geno is still on. Geno makes an absolutely horrendous pass to the other point, and it gets picked off. It’s only because the defender was gassed that it wasnt a breakaway.

Geno has been very good this year, but he still makes some very questionable decisions