WayneSid9987
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Post-Game Talk: Blackhawks 6, Bryan Rust 3, Penguins 0 - At Least It Wasn't 10-2
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Honour Over Glory
Fire Sully
- Jan 30, 2012
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Yeah I would switch things up there.
Dumoulin has been very up and down all season, but today he was just a pure embarrassment.
Empoleon8771
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It's really sad that a game where you get a hat trick from a bottom-6 player ends up a loss for you because your stars can't produce.
What's funny is that Rust's pace on the year jumped up to 11 goals and 27 points per 82 games because of that hat trick. That's not really good production, but that's not far off from what should be expected out of him (15 goals and 35 points IMO). It's just funny 1 game can make a crap season look significantly better.
What's funny is that Rust's pace on the year jumped up to 11 goals and 27 points per 82 games because of that hat trick. That's not really good production, but that's not far off from what should be expected out of him (15 goals and 35 points IMO). It's just funny 1 game can make a crap season look significantly better.
Pens lazy idiot "superstars" were a no-show again, as in greater half of games the last 18 months.
And please everybody don't come at me with this "Malkin has so many points, Kessel has so many points" BS. If you hang on these scoring totals - you don't understand how it works. They've had a few easier games, in which they scored bunches of points and so accumulated their nice totals. But in most of harder games they were absolutely invisible, and Pens consequently lost those games. So you can throw your point totals out the window, Pens struggles are primarily on their inconsistent moody "stars".
This game is a prime example of why it is wrong and stupid to hang losses on a "lack of scoring depth and secondary scoring". In this game the "secondary scoring" scored 3 efffing goals. And what? A goose egg anyway.
But Letangs' been awesome this season! And his Corsis are through the roof! And Malkin has a ton of points! How can you even say that?!
Yeah! Let's live in the past, y'all! Ef the present, who cares what's going on now?!
Right?
The biggest idiots now wear numbers 87, 71, 58, 81 and 19.
No way he is taking any of them out.
There are only two things that could help:
1) change the HC
or
2) blow up big part of the roster.
Last year, Pens play during the RS did determine their performance in playoffs. No magic switch was flipped, no miraculous transformation happened, no another gear was switched, Murray didn't magically turn on his playoff self from Cup runs. None.
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henlo u stinky egg
Maybe someting like, I don't know, his 10 mln a year salary? No?
This is typical russian mentality. For them getting their salary, even a very good one at that, isn't enough to motivate them to do their job and be good professionals. They always need some extra incentive, some big goal or some kind of pressure to make them put forth their real best effort.
AjaxTelamon
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Brass kills pretty much any line he's been on this year. He does nothing that Sid and Jake need, and has single-handedly shut down a line that had been killing it for quite some time. If you put a 14 sweater on him, I'd swear he was Kunitz from his last year here, with the avoiding contact, constant turnovers, and trying to play like he has far more skill than he has.
Who woulda thunk it, but we need Simon back, he's way better than Brass right now.
Who woulda thunk it, but we need Simon back, he's way better than Brass right now.
Empoleon8771
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People are trying to scapegoat certain players or people for the problems on this team, when the problems have varied all season. Pretty much everything has been a problem at some point this year. At the start of the year, it was a bad defense, bad goaltending and depth that couldn't score. Now, all of those things are doing well to very well, but now your top-6 and powerplay are struggling.
I will say it's encouraging to see that the supporting pieces have all been playing better recently, so when the top-6 gets out of their funk, this team should be roaring to go. You don't have to worry about the top-6 or powerplay because it has Malkin, Crosby and Kessel, it's going to be able to produce going down the line. You need to get good bottom-6 production, good defense, good PKing and good goaltending beyond that top-6 production to have a good team, and all of those things have been really good recently. If this continues, the team is going to be formidable as soon as the top-6 gets out of its funk. You still have work to do to make sure that the things that have been good recently stay good, but the team is on the upswing right now. You'd think that they'd be where the Hawks are based on the reactions on here.
I will say it's encouraging to see that the supporting pieces have all been playing better recently, so when the top-6 gets out of their funk, this team should be roaring to go. You don't have to worry about the top-6 or powerplay because it has Malkin, Crosby and Kessel, it's going to be able to produce going down the line. You need to get good bottom-6 production, good defense, good PKing and good goaltending beyond that top-6 production to have a good team, and all of those things have been really good recently. If this continues, the team is going to be formidable as soon as the top-6 gets out of its funk. You still have work to do to make sure that the things that have been good recently stay good, but the team is on the upswing right now. You'd think that they'd be where the Hawks are based on the reactions on here.
It's hard to watch Geno get knocked off the Puck all the time or him loosing his balance. He looks very slow as well. There really isn't any back checking on his part.
If everything is a problem to some degree. When do you look at the coaching staff? JR getting JJ was a bad move so JR is not blameless here. But none of us thought with the roster he had assembled over the summer that we would look like this. I think early on goal tending was a primary cause and that is something that no coach or gm can overcome. But our stars are playing like they want the coach gone.
That 4th goal against where Sid was just puck watching and Geno just circled away told the whole story. Next up, Matt Murray, if his head isn't back on straight we'll make the Kings look like juggernauts too.
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I missed the game. What happened on the GWG? I see that a penalty just expired and Geno (box), Jake, MP, JJ jumped on with Sid.
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Empoleon8771
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Because firing a coach a year and a half after winning back to back cups is incredibly stupid, and no coach would want to coach your team with such bad job security. The entire purpose of firing him is having a bad 10 game stretch in November, that's why you'd be firing him. Outside of those 10 games, the team has been really good this year.
The stars aren't playing like they want the coach gone, only Malkin is playing bad right now. You don't fire your coach because one of your 4 elite core pieces is struggling for a month.
cygnus47
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Just gonna keep throwing it out there. Attitude, identity ain't there. Team isn't gonna come together without it. X's and O's wise, tbh I didn't even watch this game, but we're not gonna get rush chances against until we start pressuring high in the zone and we never do that when Sully is scared of our defense being weak so I bet that didn't happen this game either!
Quote me when we fail in the playoffs yet again. We're not making the cup final til Sully is gone.
Quote me when we fail in the playoffs yet again. We're not making the cup final til Sully is gone.
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