It's sad that this team's mismanaged themselves (from being married to the loser coach, to personnel decisions roster-wise) so badly over the past six years that we're sitting here putting together insane Rube Goldberg scenarios with the grand end result is simply being a playoff team again when half the damn league makes it.
That's what's sad, not being a Penguins fan. You f***in' dork.
It is next to impossible to basically build a team through free agency. You need cheap talent from the minors or it will fail.
They are all coping mechanism trying to generate some kind of hope for the future.It's sad that this team's mismanaged themselves (from being married to the loser coach, to personnel decisions roster-wise) so badly over the past six years that we're sitting here putting together insane Rube Goldberg scenarios with the grand end result is simply a playoff team again when half the damn league makes it.
People are just having an impossible time dealing with the fact that the way this team's conducted itself over the past decade--throwing picks and prospects out the door in a win-now situation (which was the correct course of action)--means they're gonna have to go through a slow, shitty rebuild via the draft.
The thing that really sucks is that all of this was self-inflicted. Time is undefeated, sure, but Sid's still good and Geno's fine for his role/cap hit. The team just repeatedly self-sabotaged over the course of more than half a decade. They might've had a shot to pull this thing out of the nosedive after the Habs play-in, if they nuked the coaching staff and FO and tried to commit to changing course. But nearly every decision, and non-decision, they've made since 2018 has been a comical series of blunders that resulted in this team snowballing down the hill to what it is now.
I think this fanbase is past denial tbh, they're at bargaining, then anger, then depression, then acceptance after 2026 when Sid hangs 'em up with his shiny new gold medal.
Pens' fans are still on Denial.
Anger next.
Then three more stages.
Most here will take a while to get there.
Pens' fans are still on Denial.
Anger next.
Then three more stages.
Most here will take a while to get there.
Not me. Sid has given everything humanly possible for this franchise don't blame him one bit for finally giving up.
And Carolina. They had the 2nd overall but besides that look at their org depth on 2nd 3rd round picks
That will generate more clicks than the latest hard-working, non-scoring AHL dreck the team has called up.
Right, that's all that happened. 3 Cup wins 2 MVPs and coming back from a potential career ending injury that's something every paid player does.
