Honour Over Glory
Fire Sully
- Jan 30, 2012
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Because we've seen a boatload of wankers play for this team...
Craig Adams
Derick Brassard
Jack Johnson
Cody Ceci
Craig Adams
Derick Brassard
Jack Johnson
Cody Ceci
Rob Scuderi. Horrendously overrated at first, horrendous at second.
Rob Scuderi. Horrendously overrated at first, horrendous at second.
Poni. Thought he was going to tear it up in 2010 and he blew shit.
This seems to be controversial but it shouldn't be. Must be a nostalgia thing... I dunno. Even within the context of the league at the time which was more kind to his style of play he still stunk and Penguins fans still drank the Kool Aid. Diving in front of a flailing out of position MAF to save some crucial goals gets a boatload of mileage I suppose.
My answer is Dupuis. Yeah yeah yeah I know. I'm a monster. But I was never super fond of him being stapled to Crosby to begin with (especially as Kunitz started to fade) and then the whole "hey he might die on the ice he might not" bloodclot thing went down and I was just beyond ready for him to move on to greener pastures with his 20 children. He also found himself at the center of some rumor-mongering controversy a few years back involving Malkin and Kessel IIRC.
Seconded on Duper, never really liked him and was more than ready to move on from him after the Boston Conference Final.
Poni was a huge disappointment, he was supposed to come over and be gangbusters with Geno, but I think he spent more of his time on the 3rd line instead. Seems to happen here a lot.Poni. Thought he was going to tear it up in 2010 and he blew shit.
Poni was a huge disappointment, he was supposed to come over and be gangbusters with Geno, but I think he spent more of his time on the 3rd line instead. Seems to happen here a lot.
Niemi
I think you mean Fedotenko, Rusty wasn’t even drafted yet, well that summer he was, but I recall Ruslan Fedotenko on and off Gene’s wing, I also think that was the year Kunitz got hurt? Guerin was still around. The line-up was enough of a mess that I honestly couldn’t tell you who the wingers were regularly with.The team was probably too busy at the time trying to figure out a way they could play Malkin on the wing.
I actually think this is the season they still tried rolling with Talbot and Rusty on Geno's wings and it was every bit as dumb as everyone figured it would be over a larger sample size.
Brass also went on to rebound somewhat with the Islanders, but the Niemi thing really pissed me off. They were throwing lobs at Murray and gave Niemi these tough shitty assignments and then basically blamed it on him, then trash bag DeSmith out played Murray too that season.I loved that he went on to have a pretty outstanding season (IIRC) directly after he left the Penguins.
Oh I have another on... Mark Eaton. He wasn't like... terrible. But I feel like Ray Shero brought him back like 10 times and at least once out of retirement. And he was just sorta always... there.
Really sums up Ray Shero I guess.
I think you mean Fedotenko, Rusty wasn’t even drafted yet, well that summer he was, but I recall Ruslan Fedotenko on and off Gene’s wing, I also think that was the year Kunitz got hurt? Guerin was still around. The line-up was enough of a mess that I honestly couldn’t tell you who the wingers were regularly with.