Pre-Game Talk: All Purpose Off Day Thread

[LOGiK]

At best, the best games are parsed properly, 7 and 730. Can watch both games subsequently without missing a beat. Good pre-snowstorm hockey night.

 

[Ugene Magic]

GDT is up.

 

[DReynolds]

Idk where this belongs, but second intermission videos at ECHL game tonight all Rick Flair. Hfpens everywhere

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Pens play the Devils tomorrow? That's just great haha.

 

[LOGiK]

Pens play the Devils tomorrow? That's just great haha.

wut? Next Monday.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

wut? Next Monday.

I've lost track of all the days.

 

[LOGiK]

I've lost track of all the days.

Not always a bad thing though eh?

 

[ColePens]

bump

 

[Ogrezilla]

Hopefully we can come back refreshed. Most importantly hopefully Geno is reset.

 

[Andy99]

Hopefully we can come back refreshed. Most importantly hopefully Geno is reset.

Is there a reset button? Maybe on the time machine back to 2011-12....

 

[Ogrezilla]

Is there a reset button? Maybe on the time machine back to 2011-12....

he was ridiculously good to start the year. Honestly, I just don't know what you're talking about. He's been great every year.

 

[Andy99]

he was ridiculous good to start the year. Honestly, I just don't know what you're talking about. He's been great every year.

I think you took me too literally...ok, back to October then...

 

[Turin]

For how broken this team apparently is, they’re still a couple good OT line changes away from being first in the Metro.

 

[Nakawick]

Week between games sucks like a black hole.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Week between games sucks like a black hole.

Especially after a loss where they played like ass. A 9-day break wouldn't be so frustrating if they'd finished with a convincing win.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

It's cracking me up that the narrative in the Pens media is that again, pens need to find their identity. I feel like that's the go to bull shit for when the Pens suck and then when they play better it's because they found their identity again.

Is the Pens identity a f***ing dog? Did they forget to chip that shit? Or maybe the identity sucks ass and JR needs to stop faking his lame ass "threats" and actually do something.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

he was ridiculously good to start the year. Honestly, I just don't know what you're talking about. He's been great every year.

Yeah if there's a guy that has earned the right to just finally be f***ing mad and say f*** this with his line usage, it's Geno. The poor guy loses most of the wingers he gels with magnificently. And now he's in some terrible funk which is still a lot of players good year. I feel for the guy. I think some time with his wife and son in Florida will do him some good. Refreshed and recharged to wreck the league after the break.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

It's cracking me up that the narrative in the Pens media is that again, pens need to find their identity. I feel like that's the go to bull **** for when the Pens suck and then when they play better it's because they found their identity again.

Is the Pens identity a ****ing dog? Did they forget to chip that ****? Or maybe the identity sucks ass and JR needs to stop faking his lame ass "threats" and actually do something.

I do wonder if the longer this Brassard goes on, it is and will remain a distraction. With all the talk of him being dealt, and with JR talking to the media it seems constantly about Brassard needing to be better or to show more, I wonder if it's just better to get the deal done now rather than keep holding on until the TDL.

I understand JR can't just give him away if the current offers aren't quite to his liking, but at some point it might become way more of a distraction than whatever potential return he could get if he waits a month to deal him.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

I do wonder if the longer this Brassard goes on, it is and will remain a distraction. With all the talk of him being dealt, and with JR talking to the media it seems constantly about Brassard needing to be better or to show more, I wonder if it's just better to get the deal done now rather than keep holding on until the TDL.

I understand JR can't just give him away if the current offers aren't quite to his liking, but at some point it might become way more of a distraction than whatever potential return he could get if he waits a month to deal him.

When are you allowed to trade players again during this ASG break?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

When are you allowed to trade players again during this ASG break?

You can send your player a barrage of texts that he sucks and you wish he was gone in a trade, but that is also frowned upon.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I do wonder if the longer this Brassard goes on, it is and will remain a distraction. With all the talk of him being dealt, and with JR talking to the media it seems constantly about Brassard needing to be better or to show more, I wonder if it's just better to get the deal done now rather than keep holding on until the TDL.

I understand JR can't just give him away if the current offers aren't quite to his liking, but at some point it might become way more of a distraction than whatever potential return he could get if he waits a month to deal him.

The thing is, hanging on to him also hurts us because we are not getting the most out of the roster and he's a big problem with that. He sucks. On this team. He'll rebound elsewhere but for us he sucks. JR has to move him just to remove that from the roster.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

DeSmith actually has been pretty decent. What the chart illustrates is what we have all seen this season. The goalies have been standing on their heads but the defense is betraying them. Example. DeSmith is actually playing better than Fleury but his GAA is much worse, 26th in the league.

https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/stats...sort=9&time=0&pos=5&team=0&qual=1&sortOrder=0

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

DeSmith actually has been pretty decent. What the chart illustrates is what we have all seen this season. The goalies have been standing on their heads but the defense is betraying them. Example. DeSmith is actually playing better than Fleury but his GAA is much worse, 26th in the league.

https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/stats...sort=9&time=0&pos=5&team=0&qual=1&sortOrder=0

I don't need this fancy chart to tell me that prior to the Vegas game DeSmith was like a .920 Save percentage.

He's a #2 goalie and his numbers are eventually going to normalize. That was the start of that correction

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

DeSmith actually has been pretty decent. What the chart illustrates is what we have all seen this season. The goalies have been standing on their heads but the defense is betraying them. Example. DeSmith is actually playing better than Fleury but his GAA is much worse, 26th in the league.

https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/stats...sort=9&time=0&pos=5&team=0&qual=1&sortOrder=0

Any concerns about DeSmith are based on his last 3 or 4 starts, though. So a chart that includes when he WAS playing super awesome earlier in the season isn't exactly addressing the current concerns.

 

[LOGiK]

Maybe Brassard has a twin brother nobody knows about and they each play half a season of hockey.

Maybe after the break the real good Brassard will show up instead of his crappy twin.

I donno. I'm trying this new positive attitude energy transfer thing with Brassard.