Penguins Off Season Thread - Useless Information Edition

[Beauner]

It's almost like they have arena workers that are not working right now.

To be clear, I'm certainly in favor of teams utilizing resources that are as intentionally as broad as the PPP. Just throwing this info out there since I found it interesting.

 

[Andy99]

ok...I thought this was a cool idea...I voted for the odd team...

HockeyBuzz.com - Ryan Wilson - Which all-time Penguins team would win: Odd jersey vs even jersey numbers

 

[Randy Butternubs]

ok...I thought this was a cool idea...I voted for the odd team...

HockeyBuzz.com - Ryan Wilson - Which all-time Penguins team would win: Odd jersey vs even jersey numbers

I also voted for odd. Thought that the bottom pairing of even would get eaten alive. Maybe change them to Burrows-Daley.

 

[EightyOne]

It's hard to say

I went with even. Prime Mario dude. Supporting cast is irrelevant with that fact.

 

[ColePens]

ok...I thought this was a cool idea...I voted for the odd team...

HockeyBuzz.com - Ryan Wilson - Which all-time Penguins team would win: Odd jersey vs even jersey numbers

I go with evens... because Ron Francis turns heel last second and chooses 10 over 9.

 

[ColePens]

Kunitz - Apps - Hornqvist as L4. HAVE FUN ANY TEAM OUT THERE>

Recchi - Francis - Hossa would legit shut any line down in the world.

Tocchet - Mario - Jagr is dominant


That defense though... would be interesting.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

If Craig Adams didn't exist for as long as he did, Hornqvist would be on the odd team.

 

[Peat]

I also voted for odd. Thought that the bottom pairing of even would get eaten alive. Maybe change them to Burrows-Daley.

I'd already have Marino out there for evens.

 

[NMK11]

Even teams defense vs the odds? Woof. The bottom pairing there brought up two points: first is Schultz over Orpik. In a vacuum peak Schultz is gonna be worth more, but when the partner is Niskanen? Give me prime Orpik beside him.

And there was a throw away line in there for my second point "In fact, I think Niskanen might be solely responsible for why people thought Maatta was ever good in the first place." That got me thinking, wonder if there's more than a nugget of truth in there.

 

[wheelz87]

Stevens-Malkin-Kovy

That would be too much fun to watch

 

[Gurglesons]

Even teams defense vs the odds? Woof. The bottom pairing there brought up two points: first is Schultz over Orpik. In a vacuum peak Schultz is gonna be worth more, but when the partner is Niskanen? Give me prime Orpik beside him.

And there was a throw away line in there for my second point "In fact, I think Niskanen might be solely responsible for why people thought Maatta was ever good in the first place." That got me thinking, wonder if there's more than a nugget of truth in there.

Considering Maatta was a # 3 and # 4 on back to back cup winners no.

I take evens. That forward depth is insane and the defense is good enough to get them the puck.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Team Odd:

Team Even:

 

[Tom Hanks]

Tough one for me because I don’t really know a lot of them but Team Evens 1st line is insane. How could you stop that? Am I wrong?

 

[ColePens]

Tough one for me because I don’t really know a lot of them but Team Evens 1st line is insane. How could you stop that? Am I wrong?

Honestly whenever Mario Lemieux is out there in prime form, I don't think anyone can stop him. He's so dominant.

 

[EightyOne]

Id consider subbing in Robitaille (Recchi), Hornqvist (Kehoe), Roberts (Apps), and Cole (Hatcher) on team Even.

 

[Al Smith]

Team Odd, unless Team even played its bottom pairing 4 minutes/game. I'd consider any of Burrows/Daley/Marino there. Or even Bruce Orpik in his prime. Plus it's hard to reconcile James Neal as your grind-it-out shift after shift fourth liner.

My recollection was that Kehoe wore 17. If so, I'd move him to Team Even and sub him for Morozov on his off wing.

Edit: Just noticed Lowell MacDonald didn't even get mention for Team Even. Dude put up like 130 goals in four years at LW. Don't know if he'd make the starting lineup, but I'd definitely put him in over some of the others mentioned there.

 

[Al Smith]

I go with evens... because Ron Francis turns heel last second and chooses 10 over 9.

Delete - Misread your post.

 

[PenguinSuitedUp]

I don’t know that the 3rd pairings on those two teams makes such a difference. Kaspar was a ton of fun to watch, but he wasn’t always so defensively sound. I take Evens, because you can’t beat Jagr and Mario, and they still have a really deep forward group from Francis down.

 

[Tom Hanks]

“You’re next”

 

[KIRK]

Kunitz - Apps - Hornqvist as L4. HAVE FUN ANY TEAM OUT THERE>

Recchi - Francis - Hossa would legit shut any line down in the world.

Tocchet - Mario - Jagr is dominant


That defense though... would be interesting.

I'm double shifting a Mario-Francis-Jagr line, and I wish team odd the best of luck defending it.

And no due respect to Wilson, he couldn't put together a lineup to save his life . . .

My 'regular shift' four lines for team even would be Kunitz-Mario-Tocchet (Kunitz being the closest approximation to Stevens from the Stevens-Mario-Tocchet cup line), Straka-Lang-Jagr, Recchi-Francis-Hossa, and Neal-Apps-Kehoe.

I also might flip Jagr and Hossa.

 

[John Price]

Not a Penguins fan but this fact just came over my social media timeline

 

[Tom Hanks]

My first hockey card was Manon’s. I’d never seen a game

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Not a Penguins fan but this fact just came over my social media timeline

And collectively every goalie in the NHL not named Garth Snow, J.S. Aubin or Rich Parent all crapped themselves in fear.

 

[EightyOne]

Not a Penguins fan but this fact just came over my social media timeline

I had the biggest goosebumps when he stepped out on the ice

Then assisted Jags thirty seconds in

I cried when he scored his first goal back in that game vs TOR

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I pick team fractions.