GDT: Game 12 [ Penguins vs Maple Leafs ] November 3 7pm EST

[treeni12]

embarrassing effort by Kessel just disqusting

 

[lordstanley91]

I will say the compete level has been poop. 0 aggression.

 

[Nadal On Clay]

Crazy how Malkin has 0 help. Sucks that we aren’t in 2009 anymore.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Oh and in the good news department, Creed 2 is coming out in 3 weeks.

 

[Turin]

I don't get the love for Oleksiak in some circles around here.

He's a dog. A dog with fewer fleas than Maatta or JMFJ or Poop, I suppose, but outside of that stint with Ian Cole, he's exactly what he was in Dallas . . . and that is NOT a good thing.

We all want to play at a 2016 level ideally, right? Oleksiak, Maatta, Johnson and Ruhwedel would not have even made that healthy team. And the public generally thought our D was bad then.

 

[AverageJoeFan]

Yep...you’d be too if you constantly has three players draped all over you with no help from your teammates...

Not saying it isn't right either. I'm just lost on how mediocre we look.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Well, looks like the Isles will take over first in the division and good Lord, BUF with 9 goals (and Sheary with 2 points)...there are some teams that know how to play at home....and then there are the Pens...

We're barely a playoff team right now.

 

[vodeni]

I think this is what we will see from this team going on, ups and downs, few games where they try, followed by few dog games, they are too old and our mid level players with fat contracts, not much urgency, just hoping they make play offs and somehow flip the switch

 

[Turin]

Crosby clowned by Toronto’s version of Rust.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Oh and in the good news department, Creed 2 is coming out in 3 weeks.

Meh. It's gonna be super predictable. They sacrificed a good story to make it pg and took out a lot of the truth out of Bohemian Rhapsody as well.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Crosby clowned by Toronto’s version of Rust.

Hyman?

 

[Bingo71]

THIS is why I refuse to drop major coin to go to a home game.

I’m not spending big money to watch this shit show of an effort.

 

[Ugene Magic]

That will pretty much kill this game.

 

[AverageJoeFan]

Welp that's a wrap..and bow on this one.

 

[Turin]

Hyman?

Brown. Hyman is doing stuff this season

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Meh. It's gonna be super predictable.

Yeah, I am afraid of that too. Creed 1 was f***ing great. Hopefully this one is as well. Keep it gritty and realistic. Do not go full Rocky 4.

 

[KIRK]

Oh and @KIRK, you can play 1-2-2 all day and it won't be effective if the 1 doesn't move his feet and force the puck carrier to either skate into the trap or pass into it.

That's why I said this is just ass tonight.

BUT, against the Isles, we stretched it out too.

Look, our defense is challenged to move the puck. We have few forecheckers.

I'd be mixing up how we're defending.

For example, HMK would almost always hang back for me, because they're a counter strike line.

Our bottom six? They're slow. The can't attack like it's 2-3 years ago and the bottom six is fast in a slower league.

Sid's line? Sure, depending upon the opponent, you can go.

But, Sully really needs to have a personal come to Jesus moment and recognize/adapt to the team he's got in the league the way it is now, not the team he had 2-3 years ago in what the league was like then.

 

[Turin]

THIS is why I refuse to drop major coin to go to a home game.

I’m not spending big money to watch this **** show of an effort.

Even the last few years when they’ve been the best home team?

 

[Finesse]

Embarrassing game.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Hyman?

Brown.

 

[Bingo71]

Exclamation point!

 

[KIRK]

We all want to play at a 2016 level ideally, right? Oleksiak, Maatta, Johnson and Ruhwedel would not have even made that healthy team. And the public generally thought our D was bad then.

Our D wasn't anything great, but it was a lot more mobile.

As @Mr Jiggyfly keeps noting, we never replaced Daley's ability to rush the puck up ice.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Yeah, I am afraid of that too. Creed 1 was ****ing great. Hopefully this one is as well. Keep it gritty and realistic. Do not go full Rocky 4.

It will. It's Creed vs Drago pt 2. I mean it's obvious what will happen. You'll have a new version of the "if I can change..." Bullshit with Rocky and Drago Sr making up too.

Like I said. Predictable.


Lol 4-0. 3rd straight loss.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

This game isn't Murray's fault at all...but jesus f*** is he slow laterally.

 

[Clare2904]

I'm so interested in this game I'm looking online how to make candles.

 

[KIRK]

That will pretty much kill this game.

The Leafs 2nd goal pretty much killed this game.