Confirmed with Link: **A LOOK BACK ** Penguins sign Jack Johnson 5 years 16.25 total (3.25 cap hit)

[Honour Over Glory]

Oh man even my comments in this thread were hopeful.

Yikes.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Ban this wanker @ColePens

I knew there was way more to the Jack Johnson beef in Columbus, just felt off when JJ was being all PR about it with his answers earlier. Then you find out there was definitely more to it. I am comfortable with him returning to form and now I am really curious as to what the issues were, hell I hope JJ just says it to really piss off Torts so he just loses his crap against us even more, it's always a blast, seriously, to see Torts lose his shit.

Sarge is supposedly very good at breaking down game tape and exploiting someone's strengths and playing up to them to minimize the weaknesses. If he's seen a ton of tape on JJ like JR's mentioned, I feel comfortable that JJ is going to succeed here.


Now if the team can punt Recchi, that'd be great.

Edit: Is Capfriendly now not showing stats anymore because of having adblock? Seriously? f*** them.

Offense wasn't JJ's problem, it was trying to make him more defensive without developing him to be that properly, that was.

I still think JJ is going to be fine when camp starts and he gets more time with Sarge.

 

[Pengu]

Absolute garbage deal. This is Hunwick level bad. There, I said the truth.
Johnson was dumpster fire last season and a 1 million d man at this stage of his career. and then 5 years?
Was this deal in Crosby's contract? Can't find any other plausible explanation...

What a surprise. Noone could had seen this.....

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Oh man even my comments in this thread were hopeful.

Yikes.

The prophet @Giskard though

I'm tell you he will be bought out in 2 years

 

[Honour Over Glory]

The prophet @Giskard though

That wanker edited his post!

 

[AuroraBorealis]

That wanker edited his post!

The investigation is ongoing

 

[EightyOne]

I learned that JR lied to me and said JJ was an offensive defenseman.

I’m hurt.

Oh he was very offensive

 

[EightyOne]

Just tell him every game is a playoff game.

We'll get point-per-game JMFJ that way.

Well...I don't think my theory would have worked, anyway

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

This tweet is interesting.

Sullivan and Gonchar did the leg work.

LOL...


Holy f***.

"interesting"? F****** terrifying.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Petition to rename the thread: Goodbye to the Big Chungus : A Jack Johnson Retrospective.

 

[Snooki Stackhouse]

People already talking about the inevitable buyout on page 1

What a stupid f***ing signing.

 

[Night Shift]

I liked how someone else put it on the MF.. End of an error

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

What a surprise. Noone could had seen this.....

You got shit on for it too, props for stickin by it.

This signing felt like signing tanner glass again but for defense

 

[JackFr]

Very vindicating to read this thread back... Who possibly could have seen this coming.

Okay, so here's my main issue with Johnson and this contract.

JR has made a lot of mistakes - like any GM - since 2014. These include:

Hiring Johnston
Trading picks for Winnik
Trading Despres for Lovejoy
Trading a 1st for Perron
Signing Plotnikov
Trading down from a 1st for Reaves
Signing Hunwick
Signing Sheary to his big extension
Signing Niemi

But the thing is, those mistakes were easily fixed or at least mitigated.

Firing Johnston for Sullivan
Not resigning Winnik or Lovejoy
Trading Perron for a better fit
Trading Plotnikov, Reaves, Hunwick, Sheary, and Niemi

JR might be the best GM in the NHL at identifying f***ups and fixing them right away - even cutting his losses. It's one of the rrasons I want him to give Duclair a shot - if a player doesn't work Rutherford is very unsentimental and is willing to own up to his mistakes.

Johnson's contract just doesn't give us that flexibility. I don't think Johnson will succeed here for plenty of reasons stated above. I think he's been overrated for almost a decade and he fails both the numbers test (miserably) and the eye test. But unlike all those previous mistakes I don't see an easy way out if it doesn't work. If Johnson can't make it work here despite our mythical incredible defensive coaches, who the hell is going to want to trade for him? It's not just that I don't like Johnson, but it handicaps JR's greatest asset which is his willingness to admit a mistake and fix it.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

What numbers should I play for the lottery?

That wanker edited his post and still spelled bought incorrectly.

In the JJ thread, no less.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Jack Johnson is a wank bucket who wanks into other buckets causing other buckets to de-evolve into fellow wank buckets by wank bucket osmosis.


...It's a thing, look it up.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Jack Johnson is a wank bucket who wanks into other buckets causing other buckets to de-evolve into fellow wank buckets by wank bucket osmosis.


...It's a thing, look it up.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]