Post-Game Talk: Bruins 5 - Mike Sullivan's Penguins 1

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I don’t agree at all.

Getting a top 5 draft pick and nailing it could easily make this team retool quickly to a playoff team.

Wouldn’t be a contender and ultimately awful for the rebuild. But, there are NHL ready talents in this draft.

Bless your heart.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I straight up wonder now what Mario thinks of all this???

 

[66-30-33]

I don’t agree at all.

Getting a top 5 draft pick and nailing it could easily make this team retool quickly to a playoff team.

Wouldn’t be a contender and ultimately awful for the rebuild. But, there are NHL ready talents in this draft.

Maybe with a new coach, not with Sully.

 

[Gurglesons]

I straight up wonder now what Mario thinks of all this???

Mario’s team was even worse..

 

[Kristopher Letang]

Y’all watched that shit for real?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I straight up wonder now what Mario thinks of all this???

Mario stopped caring after this team lost to the Habs in 2020. He definitely doesn't care now that he's cashed out.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Only part that sucks is that the Pens were sellers in a buyer's market year.

Anybody with value will have more value in 3 months.

Yeah. The prices were crap if you were a seller.

 

[Pancakes]

I don’t agree at all.

Getting a top 5 draft pick and nailing it could easily make this team retool quickly to a playoff team.

Wouldn’t be a contender and ultimately awful for the rebuild. But, there are NHL ready talents in this draft.

Yeah I agree with that.

If the Pens get a top 5 pick and draft a star player with said pick, that pretty much fast tracks the rebuild. Getting one big star like that would be enough that the Pens could build around them with a few other shrewd picks and free agent signings.

This team always has stupidly good luck in the draft so here's hoping that continues

 

[Gurglesons]

Bless your heart.

Happened with San Jose in 14-15 with their core being 35+.

 

[66-30-33]

Y’all watched that shit for real?

I'll sleep in tomorrow.

 

[farscape1]

 

[Gurglesons]

Yeah I agree with that.

If the Pens get a top 5 pick and draft a star player with said pick, that pretty much fast tracks the rebuild. Getting one big star like that would be enough that the Pens could build around them with a few other shrewd picks and free agent signings.

This team always has stupidly good luck in the draft so here's hoping that continues

Nah. It does not fast track the rebuild at all. But it could easily make this team a playoff team within a year or two with Yager and that prospect hitting.

Long term we are likely incredibly mid though.

 

[Turin]

Ngl it's kinda fun cheering for other teams (in my case the Canes and Jets) without any real investment and having zero shits given about the teams current results. Better than being legitimately good but having it choked away in a crushing fashion (2021, 2022) and waaaaaay better than knowing you're bad and watching them vomit all over themselves up to the last game of the season pretending they aren't (2023). Celebrini time baby.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Mario’s team was even worse..

Those Gen-X teams had heart though at least…..

This squad has been just a bunch of pouty-ass f***ing babies that “don’t wanna play anymore and just wanna go home!!!”

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

It's so sad that we're here like "Dude... Follow me here; if this team drafts top-5 and lands an absolute stud that's able to jump in immediately and be a significant impact player and Yager reaches his ceiling they might be one of half the teams in the league to make the playoffs in a couple years."

This franchise is utter dysfunction and embarrassment.

 

[vodeni]

lol what a fast 180 with these radio shills

 

[Turin]

It's so sad that we're here like "Dude... Follow me here; if this team drafts top-5 and lands an absolute stud that's able to jump in immediately and be a significant impact player and Yager reaches his ceiling they might be one of half the teams in the league to make the playoffs in a couple years."

This franchise is utter dysfunction and embarrassment.

That is literally the cycle of life in sports. I don't see what is dysfunctional about it?

 

[Pancakes]

Nah. It does not fast track the rebuild at all. But it could easily make this team a playoff team within a year or two with Yager and that prospect hitting.

Long term we are likely incredibly mid though.

The hope really is you get a Celebrini or someone like that and then hit a home run with one of your other picks (ie how the Pens got Letang with a third) and then you're off and running.

Or maybe the Pens win the lottery this year, suck again next year, and then by 2026 they suck again and get Mckenna. Then your core is Celebrini + Mckenna. Boom. done.

Let me have my fantasies. I'll need them to get through this next decade

 

[Jaded-Fan]

So, tell me again why the core will want to go through three more years where most nights will be like the last couple of games?

Because we are so likable here in Pittsburgh?

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

This team is a barrel full of clown dick and marshmallow ice cream.

 

[sovietsanta87]

We keep our first rounder if it lands in the top ten right? Just want to make sure

This team is a barrel full of clown dick and marshmallow ice cream.

Never heard that one before but I love it.

Also Conkers FTW

 

[Gurglesons]

So, tell me again why the core will want to go through three more years where most nights will be like the last couple of games?

Because we are so likable here in Pittsburgh?

I imagine because if we do finish in the top five Sullivan gets fired and Dubas tries to make them good again this summer with all the cap space.

 

[Turin]

So, tell me again why the core will want to go through three more years where most nights will be like the last couple of games?

Because we are so likable here in Pittsburgh?

Things can change fast. It's not inevitable that the team will outright bottom out.

 

[Gurglesons]

It's so sad that we're here like "Dude... Follow me here; if this team drafts top-5 and lands an absolute stud that's able to jump in immediately and be a significant impact player and Yager reaches his ceiling they might be one of half the teams in the league to make the playoffs in a couple years."

This franchise is utter dysfunction and embarrassment.

What is sad about rooting for the Pittsburgh Penguins?

Aren’t you always going off about how you root for the team not the players or something?

This is what 28 of the teams are like every year. Most teams don’t have top 5 and top 50 players of all time.. ever.

 

[Lustaf]

We keep our first rounder if it lands in the top ten right? Just want to make sure


Never heard that one before but I love it.

Also Conkers FTW

They get to choose.

I paid $300 to watch this team win in OT vs Vancouver about two weeks ago. Don't think I'll watch another game this year or next if Sullivan is coaching.

Its so incredibly beyond time.