Post-Game Talk: | Game #1 | Pens win over Yotes | Zucker and Geno appreciation thread

[Zirakzigil]

+ offence
+ PP
+ physical toughness
+ top 6 lines

- POJ
- stupid penalties
- PK

Hockey is back baby!

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[Empoleon8771]

+ Literally a majority of the roster. Malkin, Zucker, Guentzel, Crosby, Petry, Letang, Jarry and Rutta were all noticeably good.
+ Kinda relating to the last point, but the entire top-6 was just downright dominant today. It's early, but these top-6 groups just flat out work if this team can stay healthy
+ The fact that this team is trying new things on the PP. Malkin taking faceoffs with Crosby at the point is a completely new thing that worked really well today.

= Kapanen: I had Kapanen in a - until that last goal. His issue is that he looks like he's skating fast but isn't really doing anything out there. But with him scoring that late goal, I definitely will give him some leniency.
= McGinn: He was one of the few forwards that I didn't notice today. Not really what you want to see from someone you're paying nearly $3 million.
= Pettersson: Petry insulates him extremely well, but he had a few errors of his own today. Mostly fine, he's much more towards a + than a -, but the 2 penalties hurt him.

- POJ: Man, I was really ready to put him in an = because I thought he was having a strong 3rd period after a really bad 1st and a decent 2nd. I thought he made a really nice block in the 3rd and had a strong 3rd overall, but then I watched the play around that block. He made a turnover that led to the initial shot, blocked that shot, and then didn't get to the front of the net quickly enough to cover his guy. This resulted in a glorious chance against that Jarry stopped. He just can't process the game at a NHL speed. For every good play he makes, he has some sort of screw up that leads to a chance against.
- The PK. You shouldn't be giving up 2 PP goals to the Coyotes.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Great effort and response to the Coyotes inferior complex.

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

Huge game from the top 6.
RR could have had 2 goals easily.
Huge for KK and Zuc to get on the board.
TJ was awesome.
Liking Petry.

PK needs to get better and Petts has to stop taking penalties.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

If that's the lineup they're going with today then I am intrigued as to:

1. How POJ will look
2. If Archibald will constantly put himself out of position
3. How this larger defense will perform around the net
4. If the top 6 will be shuffled at all during the game (with the exception of right after a PP or PK)

1. Not as good as I hoped. But not as bad as some people made it out to be.
2. Didn't notice.
3. Way better.
4. Don't think it happened?

Go Pens!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Great all around game from almost everyone. Hard to gauge with it being only game 1 and it being against the Yotes, though.

 

[Turin]

Wish the PK was better, other than that I wouldn’t ask for more - all the guys who you wanted to look fresh did.

 

[Rudy Russo]

I liked Rutta game tonight.

 

[Gurglesons]

It’s so nice to see the defense not get pushed around. Love to see it. Now just add some of that up front on L4.

 

[66-30-33]

Pens had 53 shots...that's the most in 1 game beating Vegas at 51.

 

[The Old Master]

didn't see the pen's dee standing off to the side of the net waving their sticks at the puck??????

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Good players looked good. Nobody looked bad. I don’t think it’s prudent to take much away from that game aside from the PK maybe needing to be better. Yotes aren’t a good measuring stick and they gooned it up for much of the game.

That said, thought the new guys from MTL were encouraging.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Geriatric team takin the youngsters out to pasture.

 

[Gurglesons]

I liked Rutta game tonight.

Such an upgrade over Ruhwedel. Now just get Smith in their instead of Gumby on the Ld.

 

[66-30-33]

I liked Rutta game tonight.

I liked his hit, he smoked that fool.

 

[dogthateats]

I had a whole write up-about the intricacies of faceoff winning in the modern NHL (and really society as a whole) landscape, but I am not going to bore you. I will just say this, if we keep winning every game this is going to be a good season

 

[66-30-33]

Such an upgrade over Ruhwedel. Now just get Smith in their instead of Gumby on the Ld.

And Chychrun instead of Dumo.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Crosby's line had 20 shots lol

 

[Peat]

My only negative is the worry about why Sid wasn't taking faceoffs. Great starting point otherwise. Can't take much from it, but a 60 minute vulgar display of power is all you could ask for.

 

[KareemTrustfund]

Malkin was a total faceoff-head shark tonight. We are going to get a beastly Geno this year.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

That is a welcome sight for L2. Hope they can have a solid outing on Saturday.

 

[Zirakzigil]

I liked Rutta game tonight.

Was as advertised. Steady and gritty stay at home guy. Nice to have that back there again.

 

[Trade]

Pluses all around, absolutely beautiful team win.

Seeing another PP goal by Malkin assisted by Sid and Tanger had me feeling very thankful.

Jarry also played great.

This D is such a breath of fresh air from what we’ve been icing the last few years. Just love it.

Really couldn’t have asked for a better game 1.

 

[jmelm]

I just want to make a big of a humblebrag after his goal tonight: remember how all summer I was one of the only ones who was so adamant about re-signing Kapanen?

 

[66-30-33]

So we winning the cup going 82-0-0 and 16-0?