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The Pens have looked like this for the majority of this season. They looked disorganized for a lot of last season, too. Calling this a "slump" seems to be using the wrong word to describe something that's lasted this many games.
We’ll yeah that’s why we signed DEREK GRANT baby!!!!11!!!JR said he wanted to get back to having four scoring lines, upgrading the skill on his bottom lines...
Malkins slumping (or hurt), rust is slumping, Kessel is slumping (or hungry), Murray is slumping(and hurt, and maybe not what we hoped he was). Those are our big dogs. When they suck it's gonna make it very hard to win.The Pens have looked like this for the majority of this season. They looked disorganized for a lot of last season, too. Calling this a "slump" seems to be using the wrong word to describe something that's lasted this many games.
Malkins slumping (or hurt), rust is slumping, Kessel is slumping (or hungry), Murray is slumping(and hurt, and maybe not what we hoped he was). Those are our big dogs. When they suck it's gonna make it very hard to win.
Add in brassard unable to excel outside of a trap system and you have a situation making it very hard to win.
I know in the past firing the coach has been our magic pill. But this time I just don't buy it and I think if we hadnt witnessed fired coaches leading to cups 3x then there wouldn't be clamoring for a new coach constantly.
Sully has to be better, but imo he's the best Pittsburgh coach of any team since I've started watching sports. We watched his system (and JRs roster) revolutionize hockey and make constant adjjstments in the playoffs leading to wins. I don't want to lose that as an attempt at an easy fix for a struggling team. The risk out weighs the upside
The core doesn't have anything left in them.
All that talk about having a full summer and being super hungry again was bull****.
I hope they're hurt cuz atm they look lazy and dumb.
Brassard and Phil can gtfo cuz i think Geno's hurt.
In fairness to Letang he's been pretty impressive up until recently. Geno has been struggling for a little while now. This team needs a jolt to the system, oh and another mobile PMD with better play in net.Letang was the worst Penguin tonight followed by terrible games both by Kessel and Malkin.
Malkin needs to be a better 5 on 5 center. He just doesn’t do thing little things right like having his stick on the right side of the puck in the defensive zone or forcing a pass on a two on one.
This team just isn't that good.
Its old and slow.
Not enough good forwards.
The d is terrible outside of Dumo and Letang.
The goalies aren't good enough.
Their are just so many holes on this team.
And Letang isn't good either.
Letang has been at worst a top 10 defenseman in the nhl this year but ok
Letang has been amazing this year. One bad game doesn't change that, come on.By corsi?
By corsi?
By corsi?
Letang has been amazing this year. One bad game doesn't change that, come on.
He’s almost a ppg. Literally every stat.
By corsi?
There is always a possibility that they ARE tanking already. Just trying to do it in the least obvious way (you know, to spare us the Caps and Flyers fans *****ing so much). Gradually just keep losing a majority of games, running backup goalies, while the stars produce at rates that are acceptable, only to completely turn it around in 2019-2020+. Maybe? Please...
I think we have to solve Geno and Kessel's problem (ahem... playing them together) once those two are rolling we can bank on more victories. Our bottom six is a fine group of players. Nobody really sticks out as "they suck" besides maybe Sheahan but he's certainly not Carter Rowney by any means. I really really blame how this year is going so far on coaching and defense pairings. We just bleed turnovers and shots. Sometimes we look completely clueless out there. Jack Johnson should be blasted into outter space along with Olli Maatta. God I wish we had somebody like Tanev. OR an in his prime Brent Seabrook.I don't know what they are doing but question is how they could go from winning back to back cups(2016 no team stood a chance..2017 it was closer but most resilient team Ive ever seen) to this?
Goaltending is one of the main things IMO. Alot blame our D but they made mistakes during those cup runs too...Murray and Fleury stopped those chances against tho. We constantly heard from other fans that " we werent the better team, our goalies are just stealing the games". And now we don't have that. Thanks to the expansion we didnt have the luxury of going with Murray/Fleury for one more season(who knows..they may have kept MAF with Murray still being inexperienced and few injuries..point is without the expansion theres no hurry to get rid of Fleury..could have waited ). And now this year, we are back to where we were with Fleury years ago. Didnt think Murray would fall off this much but knew he would take a step back. With our current window, Id rather have a goalie in his 30s..already past the growing pains. Which is where Fleury is at now.
Sully/system is another problem. We went from plugging anyone into the lineup and doing well to almost the opposite. That needs to be figured out...
Teams adjusted to our speed. So it might be time to switch things up. And you can do that when you have the top end talent we have. What needs to be fixed is the production we get from our bottom 6.
totally agree. but unless he's willing to realis that things have changed, and what worked yesterday is not working today and change. he may need to go. some coaches need to get fired before they are willing to humble themselves and change, and some never will.Sully has to be better, but imo he's the best Pittsburgh coach of any team since I've started watching sports. We watched his system (and JRs roster) revolutionize hockey and make constant adjjstments in the playoffs leading to wins. I don't want to lose that as an attempt at an easy fix for a struggling team. The risk out weighs the upside
We’ll yeah that’s why we signed DEREK GRANT baby!!!!11!!!