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With a few days off coming up, I'm completely fine with giving Fleury the back the back rather than have Zatkoff in a game to be honest.
Pre-Game Talk: Penguins @ Panthers
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Same, and with all the young D we have playing right now Zatkoff would definitely get roasted for 5 if he sees as many shots as Fleury did the other night.
Penguins23
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I came here to post this. I was looking forward to testing out the new Twitter feature.
billybudd
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**** it. I'll bite.
I don't care if he's out of practice; I'll risk a loss to see the old battleaxe swing one more time.
I came here to post this. I was looking forward to testing out the new Twitter feature.
Sorry! You can get the next interesting tweet.
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You're 100% right of course.
The officiating / disciplining in this league has been hurting the game the last few years. I used to be able to watch games and know 90% of the time what was going to be called but these days I have no idea. I'm thinking specifically of the bs that Crosby (and probably other stars on other teams) had to put up with during the playoffs but also the Sill hit that got him tossed out of the game earlier in this season. At least one of those embellishment calls against Malkin was total incompetence.
If you hit a guy 0.2 seconds too late you get suspended like Bortuzzo did yet it's ok to swing a helmet at someone's head.
Then there's the "playoff rules" vs the "regular season" rules.
It's not just the Pens that are affected by this but I'd argue that the way the playoffs are officiated hugely benefits less skilled teams in that the hooking and crosschecks to the head and other bs tend to give the less skilled chance a better chance than they'd otherwise have.
At the very least, the NHL desperately needs to implement a "coaches challenge" rule so games aren't decided by blown calls...
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Sucks that all of these tests are going down in a back-to-back but truthfully we don't need the points AND some of the players get a nice long rest.
I hate to try to find positives to it, but I think I can.
I hate to try to find positives to it, but I think I can.
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I doubt they will be. Given the fact that they're getting tested today, then there is one game, then a 4-day break... I mean, at most, you'd think they'd miss just one post-break game.
And Adams, Bennett, etc... could all be set to return soon, too
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...and the Brawla Brawla Sewitt
You should know by now, in any horror film, whenever it looks like the killer is finally dead, he pops up one last time for one final battle.
We still have Craig's Last Stand to suffer through...
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