Bro.....Harkins has 0 goals in 33 games. It's nearly impossible to be worse than that. If they somehow are, then you call the next one up. A team that's out of the playoffs with the 21st ranked offense in the league can't be guaranteeing roster spots to offensive blackholes.
I wouldn't care if they were winning. Winning defensive hockey is better than losing exciting hockey for me.
This is bonkers to me. My name's not going on the Cup, wins and losses don't matter nearly as much as how watchable the team is.
I couldn't care less about wins if I'm itching to change the channel or falling asleep because of the product on the ice. 
he has mantra that nothing breaks defense like shots on goal...maybe but the shots need to be quality and you have to have players that can do something about that...again, look at the lines, other than L1 that has been playing forever together, no other line not even remotely resembles coherent unit, they are bumping at each other in NZ, they are hiding at the wall or at best waiting for a stretch pass from the defense to direct behind the defense which becomes easy to defend...
I'm intrigued by Ludvig as a long term project because of the physicality, but he provides basically nothing offensively which is what this team needs most and is a team worst -7 in only 19 games.
*Insert Herm Edwards meme here.This is bonkers to me. My name's not going on the Cup, wins and losses don't matter nearly as much as how watchable the team is.
The Sid/Geno era Cup wins were awesome because they were fun, exciting hockey, not simply because they won the Cup. I definitely wouldn't have been nearly as invested if the team was playing the old Devils/recent Isles style of obstruction, clog the neutral zone, defense first, second and third hockey. Sounds f***ing awful tbh.
A guy like Ruuta would be great, but I don't think Ludvig is the answer. At least not yet.
*should be exciting
Dude, the only thing that stops the bitching on here is winning the Stanley Cup*should be exciting
From 2019 onward, playoff hockey has been a week of varying degrees of disappointment, immediately followed by 6 months of us bitching about JR, Hextall, and Sullivan while we kick around ideas to revamp a broken team that end up about 1000x more ambitious than the shit that actually happens.
And even that is short lived.
I was in Pittsburgh for the final two games of that series, everybody I met was having fun. The beer and pretzels at Hofbrauhaus probably helped for that sixth game though.Dude, the only thing that stops the bitching on here is winning the Stanley Cup
I wasn't on this forum in 2012, but where I was posting at the time there was nothing but bitching after they lost to the Flyers even though they scored over 4 goals a game that series. Nobody was saying "at least it was exciting!"
It's ultimately been disappointing since 2019 because they lost. Period. But especially since they were series they could've/should've won. Winning cures all.
We're the Devils minus Brodeur, an all-star defense, and a team commitment to a defensive structure for 60 minutes.
We also don't win 2017 without him. Stole the Caps series while the big two took a nap all series.
It's funny how that is never questioned by Rossi, Yohe, Jesse and those morons. You have players getting a long look providing very little value and somehow are regulars when most teams would be shaking things up to spark something. Yet Sullivan will somehow just focus on keeping the first line going and ignore the rest and let the blame fall on the players vs how he's used them.
The Fleury haters can pretend the Pens win either back 2 back cups without him, truth is they don't. They needed Murray and Fleury to rotate and take over when the other couldn't. Both cups. Fleury earned both rings and the love fans have for him is because he's been a solid bloke with charities, community work, with fans, and is a lovable clown.
I thought HF Pittsburgh was the safe haven for deranged fans.
