Kunitz is just a symptom. The real issue is the Management & Coaching Staff are allowing Kunitz to happen when there are better options.
This proves to us they have weak spots in their games. That they may not do a great job running the team, and preparing them to win another Cup.
Coaching and management are clearly light years better than just a few seasons ago. But many of us carry the scars of watching our team be mismanaged, and our generational star's prime years squandered in the interests of pandering to scrubs such as Adams, Scuderi, and Bylsma.
That's why people are obsessed with Kunitz & Fleury. Because we've seen it all before. And suffered for it.
And we were proven right in the end.
They are not "allowing it to happen."
There are reasons why he plays and young cheaper guys go back down to the AHL.
The biggest of them all is the cap. You can't bench Kunitz and play other guys for extended periods of time without him being injured. They are that tight to the cap.
Secondly, he is not in a prime scoring position, or asked to be. He drives positive numbers and that's all they need from him while he does what he can in the other sectors.
The final part is all on all of those who can't handle going from one situation to another. You simply can't wipe the slate clean. This team is in no such manner at this point in time to be worried about anything but injuries happening to the star players.
It's blowing up miniscule issues into something it is not anywhere close to what caused those scars.
This team won with even more cuts to our psyche.
I just wonder how easily some of you would handle the back n forth scoring for the Pens 2nd cup in 1992. It was a lot more frustrating then this current core ever had put us through. Now imagine me, who never once got to watch a game during that finals, (worked 2nd shift) and had to listen to every game on the radio while I worked.
Yeah.... This place is very much out of touch with reality. There's some on here with realities that everything needs to be perfect and should go as such, and then there is actual reality where the actual business side and stuff behind closed doors we have no inkling about, is at work.
Being right has nothing to do about it. Unless you know all that is being done, or could be done behind those closed doors, your tune can change just with knowledge that, hey...... now that makes sense, nobody wanted him, or the many other scenarios that come into play dealing with running a team and its roster.
So while you are right, you are also wrong at the same time.
The obvious is still the obvious, you just didn't have to go through all the red tape to get there. You simply are not at the forefront of making those decisions with all the knowledge laid at your hands to making them.
Arm Chair GMing is a totally different reality.
I'd say step back, just watch the games for awhile.
That's your job as fans. You/we were never meant to be this involved with actual inner workings of running an NHL team.
In the end, you ruin your own time stepping over that line too far.
There's in the moment stuff = good, but to extend that way beyond, and to use it to define an entire season, is very much a step to insanity.
That's this place. It is starting to die down, but very much, alive.
Try fixing yourselves.
The Pens are not the problem.
