gretskidoo
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He's saving himself for the regular season.
Everyone but Crosby and Malkin are below a ppg in the playoffs (except for players with a small # of GP). PPG in the playoffs is not easy these days.
If you're a Pens fan, you probably shouldn't comment on this topic right now if you're gonna be negative. All the hating posts from Pens fans in here can be translated to pretty much this: "Giroux was a meanie in 2012, and I hate him and the Flyers, and the Flyers suck, and Giroux is a poopie head who sucks at hockey." Some fans just can't be objective I guess. I hate the Flyers too, but Giroux is great.
After such an impressive season, I can't believe he has been as poor as he has been in the playoffs. He has one point and is -7. The last time he faced the Penguins in the playoffs, he really lit them up, too.
Also, Wayne Simmonds really seems overrated. I'm not just basing this on this series. I don't recall ever being impressed enough by him to justify some people's perception of the guy.
Also it was (OK, going to be) 10 points and Crosby is on the winning Montreal Team...Are you from the future? Because that hasn't happened.
The entire Philadelphia Flyers franchise has 12 playoff goals in 11 games since 2014. Ever think that maybe this isn't a Giroux problem?
That tells me it’s a huge Giroux problem. If you wanna be known as a top player, you better produce in the playoffs.
I know you historically have given very little room for nuance when it comes to players and teams you don't like, so I sort of expect this response, but hockey's a team sport, and if you play very badly as a team it can be difficult for players to produce, even very good ones. So "you better produce in the playoffs" and yet the guy's shown, in spades, that he can do that: 5 in 6 as a rookie, 21 in 23 in his first full season, 12 in 11 the year after that, 17 in 10 the next season, 6 in 7 in his next appearance.
So if the whole team has been garbage in their last 2 playoff appearances, and you've heard the whole fanbase screaming that the coaching and the depth is a problem, then maybe you can correlate those things.
Maybe the Flyers would have a deeper team if they didn't overpay Lehtera, MacDonald, Filppula, Read, Weise and Gudas.
Okay, Pens fans hate Giroux. Way to state the obvious. But you still didn't answer the question - has Giroux been hurt since the start of the 2012 2nd round? You mentioned he has had health issues. Were you implying those health issues have been nagging him 6 straight years and they are the only reason he would perform poorly in the playoffs since then?
Good regular season player
Not so good in the playoffs
Oh? The Flyers have made the playoffs 6 straight years? His last 3 series haven't been good, I gave you that. Move on. All I hear is "Giroux sucks, the Flyers suck, blah, blah, blah". If I was a Pens fan I wouldn't mention 2012 lol. "but, but, but he's not as good as Crosby, he's not ppg in the playoffs". Not many are. Besides, your team got Crosby and Malkin because they sucked ass for 10+ years. Without 2 little plastic balls your team wouldn't have won jack-****. The Pens success in the last 10 years is based on pure luck. So quit being bitter and petty, and get off your high horse.
Actually the Pens were only bad for three years before they drafted Malkin and Crosby and bad in Crosby’s rookie season. They’ve been deadline buyers for I think 26 of the last 30 seasons. Nice try though.
And the 6 years reference wasn’t me saying the Flyers made the playoffs 6 straight years, I was calling you out for excuse making. But I guess you couldn’t pick up on it. Not surprising since your only responses on this thread seem to be “OMG YOU CAN’T CALL OUT GIROUX CUZ REASONS!”
Yeah ok bud. Like I said, without 2 little plastic balls, the Pens would have won shit since the early 90's. All luck. So again, move on, and cut the superiority BS.Actually the Pens were only bad for three years before they drafted Malkin and Crosby and bad in Crosby’s rookie season. They’ve been deadline buyers for I think 26 of the last 30 seasons. Nice try though.
And the 6 years reference wasn’t me saying the Flyers made the playoffs 6 straight years, I was calling you out for excuse making. But I guess you couldn’t pick up on it. Not surprising since your only responses on this thread seem to be “OMG YOU CAN’T CALL OUT GIROUX CUZ REASONS!”
Well, how about that... he scored. I made a thread asking what was wrong with Backstrom and he scored against SJ that same afternoon. I made a thread about Nyquist and he scored later that night.
Totally didn't expect Philly to win. Hopefully the Flyers play much better in game six than they did in their last two home games.
Lol. He scored after a blatant slash. Congrats Giroux? You finally scored a goal...?
He scored 100 points and is a Hart finalist.