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Game of inches. If the Malkin goal stands (and it probably should've)
It's a tottaly different game.
Post-Game Talk: Cole's Plus/Minus: Pens vs. Vegas....what was that?!
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Game of inches. If the Malkin goal stands (and it probably should've)
It's a tottaly different game.
EightyOne
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MtlPenFan
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It's fun griping about lines and who plays with who and on which side, but when you spend the last couple of years getting "tough" and "gritty" on defense when you're entire philosophy revolves around 5 man offense and quick transition, this is what you get.
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Given how we do against the Devils I would not be surprised.
Hoping for a better result of course.
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MAF'ed
Out Effort'ed
One Line'ed
JJ'ed
ETA: CDS'ed
This org from the top down has to give it's head a shake and see the bigger picture.
Whats this teams identity?
Is this team good enough to contend this season as is?
I don't care about getting into the PO's in a WC spot.
Ask yourselves, can this team beat the big dogs?
Everyone needs to come back to PPG ready to get to work on the the things i mentioned above.
From JR making changes, to the brass using kids already in the org, to how you're gonna play if you can't out skate fast teams.
I can use the break, too.
Out Effort'ed
One Line'ed
JJ'ed
ETA: CDS'ed
This org from the top down has to give it's head a shake and see the bigger picture.
Whats this teams identity?
Is this team good enough to contend this season as is?
I don't care about getting into the PO's in a WC spot.
Ask yourselves, can this team beat the big dogs?
Everyone needs to come back to PPG ready to get to work on the the things i mentioned above.
From JR making changes, to the brass using kids already in the org, to how you're gonna play if you can't out skate fast teams.
I can use the break, too.
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Beddy Tlueger
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Matt Cullen? He's great on line 4. He's been amazing.
Even Sheahan on line 4 is good.
Wilson though...
So I don't get the Cullen complaint. Aside from his age, and just based off his play, he's a very good player.
Looks like 3 losses to me.
I think we can manage to beat Ottawa at home but I do not have high hopes for the other 2 lol
EightyOne
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So depressing.
It is like the game tonight, okay, they are gonna be bad.
But oh, lets get everyones hope up in the 2nd.
Then haha just kidding f*** off fans, take your massive loss. ugh
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Well, that was agony and then ecstasy, and then god remembered he hates me and it went back to just agony again. And then someone yanked the power cord on the game for the third
I honestly have no idea what is going to happen with this team this year or going forward. But if it turns into a sellers trade market this year I see very little point in pulling in more assets. Not with breakdowns and lapses like we had tonight. It’s hard to believe a week ago they were looking like a juggernaut
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-that Verne Troyer fanboy lurking around. Go away
I honestly have no idea what is going to happen with this team this year or going forward. But if it turns into a sellers trade market this year I see very little point in pulling in more assets. Not with breakdowns and lapses like we had tonight. It’s hard to believe a week ago they were looking like a juggernaut
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-that Verne Troyer fanboy lurking around. Go away
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To be fair, Schultz being out changes a lot on that front.
cheesedanish87
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That was the most predictable result of the year, it was a scheduled loss.
2-3 on a tough 5 game road trip isn't awful, its nice to be done with these long west coast road trips for the year.
Hopefully Schultz and ZAR are close to full health by time the Pens get back, it would be nice to see how the Pens look when they have a fully healthy lineup.
2-3 on a tough 5 game road trip isn't awful, its nice to be done with these long west coast road trips for the year.
Hopefully Schultz and ZAR are close to full health by time the Pens get back, it would be nice to see how the Pens look when they have a fully healthy lineup.
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Beddy Tlueger
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Wanted that guy when he was on Tampa. Imagine if they kept him..
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After watching this team all season, one safe conclusion I can draw is we're not nearly as fast as quite a few teams in this league. Good positioning and gap can mitigate that some, but we're probably middle of the pack at best.
EightyOne
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I want to believe you are correct.
Always been a fan. Has good taste in uniform number, too
Team identity? Who the f*** knows what it’s supposed to be.
Speed has disappeared. They want guys with grit and toughness but they really don’t have anybody.
Speed has disappeared. They want guys with grit and toughness but they really don’t have anybody.
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We will probably wind up winning a track meet against TBL and somehow losing to the Sens and the Devils.
Cue devils fans talking about how Shero was the real architect of those two cups
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Beddy Tlueger
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I want to believe you are correct.
Always been a fan. Has good taste in uniform number, too
Awful number.
EightyOne
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We're not, for sure. I think our identity is still to be aggressive though and that is as it should be. We're a much worse team when we try to stay back and defend. We can't do it at all. Our best defense (as it always has been in the Sullivan era) has been to attack.
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Gotta push. There's no other option at this point.
I think the Pens should part with a 1st every year for as long as Crosby and Malkin stay 1st line calibre scoring centers, the Pens have at least 1 star calibre winger, Letang is a #1 calibre defenseman, and the goaltending situation is passable. With that core, a 1st could land a piece that could put them over the top any given year.
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Not only that but, despite looking like he was hauling a trailer behind him, Johnson was going to get that puck. Probably banks it back to a trailer or takes it to the board behind the net and sends it far side around the dasher. Instead...
Don’t get me wrong. CDS is fine but that was an awful day at the office for him. And several others.
Jesus, the nuttiness of it all. We lose Geno’s goal, Marchesault scores off that botched play, and then Fleury saves off Kessel down low. A sequence of three bad to awful breaks that just rotated the game 180 degrees.
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