GDT: Jackets vs Pens, 7pm 03/05/2024

[Le Magnifique 66]

Win Win Win, so everything is great again!!! Unlike the Devils, the Penguins management and ownership have no balls!!

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[Rakell67]

Columbus instructed to let Bemstrom score 5 goals.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Harkins forever! Poulin never!
Same shit forever! New shit never!

 

[LOGiK]

Meh.

 

[Icarium]

Just how bad are the Jackets if this utter joke of a Pens team is considered the overwhelming favorite to win by the bookies?!

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Ok, how do they end up assing this one up?

 

[BusinessGoose]

Just how bad are the Jackets if this utter joke of a Pens team is considered the overwhelming favorite to win by the bookies?!

Bet on CBJ then. You'll make a haul

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Ok, how do they end up assing this one up?

Nylander 2g, 1a
Bemstrom -3

 

[Crosbyfan]

Nylander 2g, 1a
Bemstrom -3

Is that with his 5 goals, or without?

 

[Pens1566]

The one where Nylander runs a train on us.

 

[molon labe]

First game of the season I'm genuinely conflicted about.

I'll take the first splash here - I want Sid and Geno to have dual hat tricks - and for this club to lose 7-6.

Of course Geno has already given up on the team and playing with AHL fodder so it's unlikely he gets 3 but I could see him getting a power play marker based on his recent play.

 

[Andy99]

Lol…yes, the comeback a month out and 9 points down in the race is easily within reach!

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Lol…yes, the comeback a month out and 9 points down in the race is easily within reach!

Everything in our power to stay in the race, except, you know, the correct things.

 

[molon labe]

Lol…yes, the comeback a month out and 9 points down in the race is easily within reach!

Tonight is the night where standing flat footed on the power play and passing around the umbrella finally works!!!! Trust the process!!

 

[Icarium]

I bet the Jackets are on pins and needless, awaiting to learn if Jansen "Can't Score in a Brothel" Harkins is going to play.

 

[Andy99]

Apparently the rookie goalie the Blue Jackets are playing tonight has played two NHL games and has a .934 save %….another shutout against the Pens forthcoming lol..

I bet the Jackets are on pins and needless, awaiting to learn if Jansen "Can't Score in a Brothel" Harkins is going to play.

He’s gonna actually hit the net on his next penalty shot…just wait and see!

 

[reino]

If they win tonight hope is back on! Guentzel trade cancelled!!

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

First game of the season I'm genuinely conflicted about.

I'll take the first splash here - I want Sid and Geno to have dual hat tricks - and for this club to lose 7-6.

Of course Geno has already given up on the team and playing with AHL fodder so it's unlikely he gets 3 but I could see him getting a power play marker based on his recent play.

Malkin will be lucky to get three the rest of the season IMO

 

[molon labe]

Malkin will be lucky to get three the rest of the season IMO

Honestly I agree. He isn't going to score with any linemates they are willing to give him.

His best use case has been as a wing for at least two seasons now - and they just won't stick with it. Of which, this season that leaves exclusively Crosby to center him - and they won't do that either.

With any of the shit combinations they're giving him I'll be genuinely shocked if he gets 10 more points this season - let alone goals. He'll continue to get utterly trashed on socialspheres and they'll try to run him out of town (again) this Summer while praising the great MS.

If we don't use him as a wing for the length of his contract I hope he does get moved somewhere like Boston or Vegas who do use him in that capacity just so he can throw up another 35 goal season or two at 6M.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Honestly I agree. He isn't going to score with any linemates they are willing to give him.

His best use case has been as a wing for at least two seasons now - and they just won't stick with it. Of which, this season that leaves exclusively Crosby to center him - and they won't do that either.

With any of the shit combinations they're giving him I'll be genuinely shocked if he gets 10 more points this season - let alone goals. He'll continue to get utterly trashed on socialspheres and they'll try to run him out of town (again) this Summer while praising the great MS.

If we don't use him as a wing for the length of his contract I hope he does get moved somewhere like Boston or Vegas who do use him in that capacity just so he can throw up another 35 goal season or two at 6M.

I don't know how confident I am in him at this point in his career to put up those kinds of numbers anywhere with any linemates. It's not that I don't acknowledge he's slipping. But I do agree that the Penguins are hardly getting enough of what he does have left to offer. And I also still do not think the powerplay is his fault even though that seems to be the accepted wisdom in Penguins-dom these days. I guess the likes of Lars Eller, Phillips etc. are preferable.

 

[molon labe]

I don't know how confident I am in him at this point in his career to put up those kinds of numbers anywhere with any linemates. It's not that I don't acknowledge he's slipping. But I do agree that the Penguins are hardly getting enough of what he does have left to offer. And I also still do not think the powerplay is his fault even though that seems to be the accepted wisdom in Penguins-dom these days. I guess the likes of Lars Eller, Phillips etc. are preferable.

He's 100% given up on this season / this team / this coaching staff.

He still has a shot though, and in this league that seems to be enough for 20 goals. Couple with a half decent power play on another club - I could see it.

I'm not trying to argue that he's not on a downward spiral though. His legs have seem to have gone on half nights, the other half he's just not getting himself in position to score anymore. Lines 2-4 literally just skate up and chip the puck and give up. Team is entirely washed and he's just part of that.

That being said, I like him as a Penguin and feel his only shot is on Sid's wing since we refused to bring in a 2C for the past few seasons. Either do that or just waste his 6M and his shot (as we've been doing) because he's damn sure not carrying a line anymore.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

He's 100% given up on this season / this team / this coaching staff.

He still has a shot though, and in this league that seems to be enough for 20 goals. Couple with a half decent power play on another club - I could see it.

I'm not trying to argue that he's not on a downward spiral though. His legs have seem to have gone on half nights, the other half he's just not getting himself in position to score anymore. Lines 2-4 literally just skate up and chip the puck and give up. Team is entirely washed and he's just part of that.

That being said, I like him as a Penguin and feel his only shot is on Sid's wing since we refused to bring in a 2C for the past few seasons. Either do that or just waste his 6M and his shot (as we've been doing) because he's damn sure not carrying a line anymore.

Malkin is a confidence/trust player. Always has been. He responds to that.

You can understand why he looks like he does, age aside.

 

[SomeDude]

What race are they trying to stay in? They have a better shot of winning the 1983 NYC Marathon than making the playoffs this year.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Of course Harkins is a game time decision, him getting f***ing borderline concussed get even get this piece of f***ing shit out of the lineup, what will? He could get Lou Gehrig's Disease, Ebola, and Terminal Cancer and still be a game time decision.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Of course Harkins is a game time decision, him getting f***ing borderline concussed get even get this piece of f***ing shit out of the lineup, what will? He could get Lou Gehrig's Disease, Ebola, and Terminal Cancer and still be a game time decision.

Look at that dome.

You think that guy can be concussed?