Post-Game Talk: Cole's Plus/Minus: "Deja Vu All Over Again"

[CheckingLineCenter]

++++++ Blueger. I think he’s awesome. Not flashy but dependable as all get out. I’d play him way more.
++++ Jarry. SO win.
+++ Rust. Had some jump back.
+++ POJ. Congrats on making your life’s work and dream come true. And he was good.
++ Winning 3 games in a row

- - - - Sid was awful. Geno wasn’t great yet again but I thought L2 had their moments. These guys have to be better. It’s not just form, it’s effort.
- - have not won in regulation yet. 5 games this year.
- I love Sullivan more than most, but I can’t get behind Erod nonsense. It may just be time for him to go. Getting absurd. Kap on 4th line? Fine. But no KK in OT and Erod just eating 1RW minutes and being a nothing burger in all that time is hurting us really bad.

 

[LittleSpoon]

Miserable bunch. Good fight in a sloppy effort. Three game win streak in the toughest division and just whining. Criticism is valid and fine, but maybe pull your heads out the poo and smell the flower that grew out of it once in a while. Still early in the season with three d injured and many guys who’ve barely played hockey in the last ten months. But my one real gripe is this insistence of Erod on line one.....needs to stop yesteryear.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Rodrigues doesn't even look like an NHL'er - he certainly doesn't belong in anyone's top 6. No clue what we see in him that couldn't be replaced by anyone in WBS.

He's a good defensive player. He backchecks well and sticks to his assignments. But that's all he can do.

 

[Peat]

I guess congrats to the team on getting away with it again. Can't fault their resilience in terms of coming back after putting themselves in the hole. Just how they get there.

I don't see them being lazy, I see them being really f***ing stupid and that's far more alarming.

edit: And congrats to POJ on a nice debut.

 

[ChaosAgent]

- Dumo looks like he just took 2 years off of hockey. Skates in sand - passes brutally - pushes the puck. No clue what's going on there.

Dumo's play this year has been scary. Like "get a 1st and a prospect for him now because he'll be a salary dump by the summer" scary.

 

[dogthateats]

++++Kapanen
+++POJ
++Jarry
+Malkin, would have been a gazillion pluses but for that terrible late turnover
+Rust

--Sid
-----Erod on Sid's line
-----Sully
------------#58 and #8 are really bad and will sink us this year. At least one should be gone by the deadline.
----------Zucker played an eminently hateable game

That was at least 66% Letang’s fault

 

[Darren McCord]

TB is our 2nd line center when kap is on his line.

change my mind

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Awww Geno didn't even get to make it to the SO so I could point and laugh at a guy who used to terrorize goaltenders.

As a fan who said to take it easy and see how the game unfolds regarding Kap/Erod... I was wrong. This is foolish. Especially with what Kap has shown his first couple games combined with what L1 has not.

Malkin was better this game... not entirely getting all the hate here but my goodness that line is hopeless-- if it scores at all they are those like... Sisyphean types where they gotta slog for an entire game just to put in some greasy deflection goal.

Both of these things should be glaringly obvious to the coaching staff and it's super easy to try something different. I just don't get it.

Stoked for POJ. Another sneaky good game from Blueger. Jarry very good.

 

[DRAGO 18]

Rust was much better tonight.

 

[Nakawick]

We get 7 more cracks at the Rangers.

 

[ChaosAgent]

He's a good defensive player. He backchecks well and sticks to his assignments. But that's all he can do.

Zach Evan Rodrigues, or ZER.

 

[vodeni]

tanger back to his patented move....
Jarry was OK definitively his best game...
POJ good, Ruh OK Marino and Dumo hve been our two worst d-man so far, thats not going to cut it....
1st and 3rd line bad second and fourth good, with Zucker just drunk no other way to explain all his mistakes tonight
Rust benefited from a solid Geno's game...when Geno shows effort and Rust skates things are working, get Zucker with Sid and Kap and reunite Jake Geno and Rust its that f***ing simple

 

[DesertPenguin]

Pens depth guys carrying the squad. If the other half of this team ever wakes up and gives a damn, we might have something here.

+ A Win is a Win

+ Malkin's line looked dangerous for the first time all season

+ POJ looks like a player

- Everything else.

We're above. 500 but I feel lucky we aren't 0-5. It has to get better or the coaches need to change.

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

+++Currently tied for 2nd in the division

 

[Gurglesons]

At this point I think you need to drop Zucker out of the top six if you’re going to force him with Malkin.

 

[Turin]

+ Jack Johnson was on the other team

 

[pistolpete11]

+ POJ, good thing they took on Matheson's $5M for the next 6 years
+ Jarry, made some big saves after getting hung out to dry
+Rust
+Kap, Blueger

= Malkin, still not great, but showed a pulse at least
= L3, nothing bad, but kind of invisible

-Crosby, Jake...E-Rod...for some reason
- Dumo, brutal turnover on their first goal
----Zucker, holy shit, what the f***? Just not his night.

 

[Return of the Paek]

That letang SO goal was dirty... almost made up for his 69 turnovers during regulation.

 

[Tom Hanks]

 

[Ginger Papa]

Thank you again for being so welcoming. Amazing that it’s 3 Shoot Out/ O/T Wins in a Row. But as they say, doesn’t matter how they look, they all count.

Tristan looked sharp

Defense had their moments

And in the end the Boys figured it out and got it done

See you again soon.

Cheers

 

[TySmith4Norris]

Marino shut down Panarin one on one and I just started laughing, shaky start but he's been great the last couple

Rust having a third of their shots is obviously great for Rust but just can't be a sustainable way to win games

 

[Kristopher Letang]

That letang SO goal was dirty... almost made up for his 69 turnovers during regulation.

Facts

 

[Turin]

At this point I think you need to drop Zucker out of the top six if you’re going to force him with Malkin.

It’s a shame. Find a guy like Kunitz for Sid, it looks good, and then next season refuse to put them together. Am I imagining the chemistry they had last year? Because I thought they looked good.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I'm gonna show some love to Ceci too, who I thought played pretty well. Good separation speed all over the ice and helped get us a goal.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

It’s a shame. Find a guy like Kunitz for Sid, it looks good, and then next season refuse to put them together. Am I imagining the chemistry they had last year? Because I thought they looked good.

Doesn't matter, even if it fixes both scoring lines. Crosby prefers Guentzel.