GDT: 2/9/19 - 7:00PM EDT - Pittsburgh vs Tampa Bay

[gn2007]

Kuch with the ugly -4 tonight sheesh lol

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

It was ugly but I’ll take the 2 points especially vs the pens.

 

[Stammertime91]

Girardi is terrible and he was pretty good last year. He need a to sit. Every game.

Aside from that, what a game.

 

[BowDownToVasilevskiy]

Kuch with the ugly -4 tonight sheesh lol

Just saw that as well. He is probably not that happpy at the moment. Need to get him going somehow

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

stamkos making plays like hes stevie f ing yzerman to close out game .... those plays aint easy to not ice them etc... so proud of the captain all the work he has done to become a complete player

 

[Stormbreaker]

Kuch with the ugly -4 tonight sheesh lol

He's definitely in a funk.

 

[DaBolts]

Okay, I'm whipped after that game. Can we PLEASE get up 8-0 on someone this season?

 

[ccman68]

Kuch with the ugly -4 tonight sheesh lol

Were any of the goals his fault though? Feel like Girardi is just often out there at the same time as Kuch.

He needs to find his offense though. He had a good first shift and after that nothing all.

 

[SRQKiter]

We've won a lot of games this season but I can't remember the last time we were actually dominant.

Uh, we dominated pretty much everyone before the break. Go back and look at the scores.

 

[The Macho King]

stamkos making plays like hes stevie f ing yzerman to close out game .... those plays aint easy to not ice them etc... so proud of the captain all the work he has done to become a complete player

Hes been awesome.

 

[DaBolts]

Meanwhile Cernak is a +3 the scratching needs to end.

Imagine Cernak-Hedman playing full time.

I'd love to see:

Hedman-Cernak
McDonagh-Coburn
Sergechev-Stralman

I'm done with Girardi full time and we don't have anyone just quite ready in Syracuse to call up yet.

 

[Stormbreaker]

 

[ccman68]

Uh, we dominated pretty much everyone before the break. Go back and look at the scores.

Looks like January 8th was the last time we actually dominated. Some big score games after that but those were not very convincing.

 

[bigdaddio]

Secondary scoring makes an appearance for the first time in a while. Yay for us.

PS. Screw the Pens. Trying to dust it up and fight all game. Right now they are who we play in round one.

If we do face them again I swear I will have an aneurysm if we put any D-men other than Hedman, Strals, Cernak or McDonough in the game when Crosby is out there. You somebody who if they cant get the puck from him behind the net at least make him work for it.

 

[gn2007]

Also 13 people had a point on our team today, kuch wasn't one of them. That's beyond bizarre lol. Coburn got an apple on his 900th game though

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

im not worried on kucherov at all... he had an amazing game two games ago and just no one was awake for his taped passes the full nite.... last game he had one of his i am passing too much.... tonight they mand him up pretty well

 

[SRQKiter]

Girardi was never this bad last year.

I don't know if he was the same, worse or better, but I know this, the amount of Girardi bashing has not changed much year over year.

 

[DaBolts]

Just saw that as well. He is probably not that happpy at the moment. Need to get him going somehow

Kuch-Stammer-Joseph. Because the other side is too slow, they were able to double Kuch. Put some serious size and speed, rough a diamond as Joseph is, and Kuch will get freed up.

Or make a new TKO line, something. But quit thinking that having Palat out there is helping, he's a 3rd or 4th liner 12:00 TOI at best right now.

 

[SRQKiter]

Looks like January 8th was the last time we actually dominated. Some big score games after that but those were not very convincing.

Well if you want to parse it that much, be my guest.

 

[ccman68]

I feel like Girardi has been decent this year. One bad game isn't enough to get rid of him completely.

And if we bench every defenseman that has a bad game soon Cernak will be the only player left.

 

[BowDownToVasilevskiy]

I'd love to see:
Hedman-Cernak
McDonagh-Coburn
Sergechev-Stralman

I'm done with Girardi full time and we don't have anyone just quite ready in Syracuse to call up yet.

Have we tried McDonagh - Coburn before? I really hope Sergachev puts together some good performances would love to see him play with McDonagh. I feel like Cernak got much better playing beside McDonagh

 

[Hoek]

Pretty annoying how the Pens would start a scrum after every whistle. Just go away and lose gracefully.

 

[DaBolts]

Have we tried McDonagh - Coburn before? I really hope Sergachev puts together some good performances would love to see him play with McDonagh. I feel like Cernak got much better playing beside McDonagh

Stralman-Serge have played, not sure about Coburn.

But the speed factor of Stralman-Serge against the other team's transition would be fun to watch.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

CHOMP

 

[DaBolts]

On the good good news besides the W:

We are still 13 points up on the pesky NHL Refereeing HQ, aka, Toronto.

 

[SRQKiter]

Pretty annoying how the Pens would start a scrum after every whistle. Just go away and lose gracefully.

It was clearly part of their game plan. It didn't work, not enough anyway.