Who's To Blame For Penguins Debacle?

[CartographerNo611]

Poor roster building and their top guys not going into the corners. You aint going to win playoffs if your star players stick to the perimeter game. You need to muck it up in the corners and get the puck moving behind the goalie.

 

[dubey]

The Islanders being a better hockey team is to blame for the penguins debacle.

Yeah this was my first thought

I don't understand the whole "SOMEONE MUST BE BLAMED FOR THIS" that is embedded in a large number of people that post here

It's a pretty disgusting mindset to have

 

[Isles Junkie]

Why is potentially getting swept by the best defensive team in the league over the course of the regular season "unacceptable."

What really is unacceptable is that the average fan/media member seems to think that the NY Islanders are still a gong show of an organization.

 

[OviTaughtMe]

...the other team and coach gets paid too.

If they lose this series, they’ll be just as big as threat next year.

I swear this is the most reactionary board I’ve ever seen. Bar none. Every thing has to be a debacle, a hot take, etc.

They’re just getting beat. It happens. I mean the team has lost 1 (soon 2 series) in like 4 years

 

[Pancakes]

Arguably nobody, in any major long-term consequential way anyway. Playoffs sample size is often ignored. They were playing well before. They aren’t now.

Amazing teams come in and happen to have their slump
Average teams come in and hit their stride perfectly
Every team has their ups and downs, timing and matchups are the two most important things in the playoffs... every team is talented enough to be there.

The team has looked very stale at times the past two years even aside from the playoffs.

It's probably time to make some bigger changes. I wouldn't trade Crosby/Malkin/Letang/Guentzel/Murray but anyone else is fair game for me.

 

[OviTaughtMe]

Mike Sullivan. Terrible lineup decisions all season long. Time to fire him.

You are out of your mind

 

[Konk]

 

[Pancakes]

...the other team and coach gets paid too.

If they lose this series, they’ll be just as big as threat next year.

I swear this is the most reactionary board I’ve ever seen. Bar none. Every thing has to be a debacle, a hot take, etc.

They’re just getting beat. It happens. I mean the team has lost 1 (soon 2 series) in like 4 years

Eh, it's one thing to get beat, and another to look as lifeless as they have this series.

This is the type of series that brings major changes to a team. Should it? I dunno. But it's gonna happen.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

No fire, no balls.

 

[Future GOAT]

@daver put too much pressure on Sid with all his Hart and Selke talk.

 

[deadinthewater]

The Islanders being a better hockey team is to blame for the penguins debacle.

People are (largely) shocked that they're on the verge of being swept, is all. Not just beat. Swept. I think people are being a little too prickly with these kind of responses. Islanders have been terrific and have fully earned the position they're in now. But when people are asking "What happened?" Re: the pens, I think it's fair.

 

[Salva Mea]

trotz : one man contender

and pens awful D core

 

[ThreeLeftSkates]

Blame the Isles for being the better team.

 

[Gentle Man]

Undefeated

 

[Panthaz89]

So much for that "unfortunate matchup" that everyone kept saying about anyone who plays the Penguins in round 1....they look overmatched.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Uh...the Islanders are the better team.

 

[DrewGl]

I've never seen a team look so disinterested during the playoffs. Almost seems like a locker room problem. Do these players like each other? I know not every team are best buds but I wonder. Who knows.

 

[Disappointed EP40]

Surely being on the verge of getting swept by the Islanders is not something that should be acceptable. Just what is going in Pittsburgh that they're stinking up the joint so badly?

Also, what changes are going to happen in the off season because, surely, heads will need to roll if this keeps up.

How tf is a higher seeding team beating a lower team a "debacle"?

What a nonsense thread

 

[FreeBobbyFarnham]

You are out of your mind

No. Who scratches Blueger for Garrett ******* Wilson? Who keeps McCann away from Sid and Guentzel even though it's been our best line?

 

[PuckSeparator]

Why is potentially getting swept by the best defensive team in the league over the course of the regular season "unacceptable."

What really is unacceptable is that the average fan/media member seems to think that the NY Islanders are still a gong show of an organization.

No one said anything about that in this thread.

It's not a question of simply losing, but a team with Sid and Malkin that won a bunch of cups recently potentially getting swept in the first round is a big deal and very much worthy of discussion. This is a discussion board after all...

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

Crosby and Malkin both no showing.

Wonder what the @daver excuses will be? That Crosby didn’t save himself for the playoffs? Or that he was too focused on winning the selke?

I for one can’t wait to see the acrobatics for this one.

 

[NeverBeNormal]

Crosby. He gets all the credit when they succeed, so he should take the blame when they don't.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

The Capitals because they fired Trotz.

But this is too funny, who would've thought the Islanders would be on the verge of doing this. Told me this last off-season I would've laughed. Won't say it's a sweep yet because Pittsburgh could come back in the next four games like Philly and LA did, then Pens fans will like this laughing at me, like how Leafs fans always do for some reason or another.

If they do face the Capitals it'll be a big smack in the face from Barry Trotz if they beat them. Feel like the Islanders are giving Trotz more freedom than he had in Washington.

 

[JT Kreider]

 

[PittsburghPens8771]

Nobody. The islanders just want it more. They win every puck battle. Shut us down.