Pre-Game Talk: Pens at CBJ, Game 3. Does anything matter?

[IcedCapp]

Shelly Anderson @pgshelly

Lines at #Penguins skate: Kunitz-Crosby-Bennett Jokinen-Malkin-Neal Glass-Sutter-Stempniak Megna-Vitale-Adams Pyatt rotated onto 4th line.

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[MrBurghundy]

@penguins: #Pens D-pairs: Orpik-Martin, Scuderi-Letang, Niskanen-Maatta, Bortuzzo-Engelland.

 

[Sivek]

Scuderi-Letang

hahahahahahahaha

oh god

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

Shelly Anderson @pgshelly

Lines at #Penguins skate: Kunitz-Crosby-Bennett Jokinen-Malkin-Neal Glass-Sutter-Stempniak Megna-Vitale-Adams Pyatt rotated onto 4th line.

Awesome. Now BB can be turned into Dupuis and Glass can **** up the third line.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[IcedCapp]

Awesome. Now BB can be turned into Dupuis and Glass can **** up the third line.

What could possibly go wrong?

watching Bennett play, regardless of what line he's on, I feel like they are trying to turn him into something he's not.

I mean, I like the physicality, but this is a creative play maker who has dealt with injuries throughout his short career... why is he their most physical player?

 

[DeadGator401]

Tonight, Letang won't take a babyboy penalty, Neal will.

 

[IcedCapp]

Shelly Anderson @pgshelly

Top power play has two D, Martin and Niskanen. Letang on second unit. #Penguins

 

[MrBurghundy]

watching Bennett play, regardless of what line he's on, I feel like they are trying to turn him into something he's not.

I mean, I like the physicality, but this is a creative play maker who has dealt with injuries throughout his short career... why is he their most physical player?

That's what this team does with its prospects. Turn them into what they think is best for them and to hell with what the player is actually good at.

 

[OilerPensfan97]

****! Power just went out. May or may not be able to do the GDT. Depending on how long it lasts.

 

[Shockmaster]

watching Bennett play, regardless of what line he's on, I feel like they are trying to turn him into something he's not.

I mean, I like the physicality, but this is a creative play maker who has dealt with injuries throughout his short career... why is he their most physical player?

Because Bylsma was a scrub that had to hit hard to earn a spot in the line-up when he played and at some point was likely replaced by a younger player with some pedigree. He wants Bennett to "earn it" just like he had to.

 

[IcedCapp]

Dejan Kovacevic @Dejan_Kovacevic

Working on those 5-on-3s again. Both ends. Can’t make this stuff up.

 

[MtlPenFan]

Awesome. Now BB can be turned into Dupuis and Glass can **** up the third line.

What could possibly go wrong?

I expected no less than Glass on the 3rd line. No less.

I just need to see Pyatt inserted to make my rage complete.

 

[IcedCapp]

Dejan Kovacevic @Dejan_Kovacevic

Zero indication of any lineup change, other than Megna/Pyatt entering for injured Gibbons, who isn’t skating.

 

[Sivek]

Dejan Kovacevic @Dejan_Kovacevic

Working on those 5-on-3s again. Both ends. Can’t make this stuff up.

Need to fit as many lefties on the 5-on-3 PP's as possible.

 

[IcedCapp]

Dejan Kovacevic @Dejan_Kovacevic

Bennett’s back on Sid line, Stempniak still on third line. Bortuzzo/Despres still a pair, meaning they aren’t playing again. ALL IS WELL.

 

[penguins2946*]

I mean, Bennett is supposed to be Sid's RW of the future. Him and Crosby need to work through this block that they have between each other. Crosby has played with grinders basically his entire career, it's not going to be a smooth transition over to a creative winger. It needs to happen though, so they just need to play together to get through this block.

 

[Waffle Fries]

I really hate Neal being off the top unit. We need him there.

watching Bennett play, regardless of what line he's on, I feel like they are trying to turn him into something he's not.

I mean, I like the physicality, but this is a creative play maker who has dealt with injuries throughout his short career... why is he their most physical player?

I don't think it's the team is necessarily telling Bennett to be as physical as he's been playing. I think Beau just came to the realization that if he's going to stay in the lineup and get ice time, he has to "grind *****es down."

 

[MrBurghundy]

I mean, Bennett is supposed to be Sid's RW of the future. Him and Crosby need to work through this block that they have between each other. Crosby has played with grinders basically his entire career, it's not going to be a smooth transition over to a creative winger. It needs to happen though, so they just need to play together to get through this block.

Like I said in the other thread, Crosby and Kunitz need to stop telling Bennett to be a Dupuis clone while they play their 2 man game and pretending Bennett doesn't exist.

 

[Waffle Fries]

Dejan Kovacevic @Dejan_Kovacevic

Bennett’s back on Sid line, Stempniak still on third line. Bortuzzo/Despres still a pair, meaning they aren’t playing again. ALL IS WELL.

No **** Despres isn't playing. He's in WBS.

 

[IcedCapp]

I really hate Neal being off the top unit. We need him there.




I don't think it's the team is necessarily telling Bennett to be as physical as he's been playing. I think Beau just came to the realization that if he's going to stay in the lineup and get ice time, he has to "grind *****es down."

Which, hey, I don't disagree with, except for the fact that THIS STANDARD ONLY APPLIES TO BO BENNETT AND JAYSON MEGNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Waffle Fries]

Which, hey, I don't disagree with, except for the fact that THIS STANDARD ONLY APPLIES TO BO BENNETT AND JAYSON MEGNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know, and it's incredibly frustrating.

 

[penguins2946*]

Like I said in the other thread, Crosby and Kunitz need to stop telling Bennett to be a Dupuis clone while they play their 2 man game and pretending Bennett doesn't exist.

I deleted that part of my comment, but I agree. Crosby and Kunitz need to adjust their game to fit with Bennett just as much as Bennett needs to adjust his game to fit with Crosby and Kunitz. Bennett simply doesn't have the sturdiness to play like Dupuis. Not physicality, he definitely is capable if grinding a ton. I just don't want to see our creative and frankly injury prone winger acting like a grinder, because he'll just end up back on IR then.

 

[MrBurghundy]

Bennett - Crosby - Neal
Kunitz - Malkin - Jokinen

I don't care really, but something has to change to spark those top two lines.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

watching Bennett play, regardless of what line he's on, I feel like they are trying to turn him into something he's not.

I mean, I like the physicality, but this is a creative play maker who has dealt with injuries throughout his short career... why is he their most physical player?

He was always a physical player, which is why last season I was arguing with some lunk heads who insisted he was this soft, perimeter player.

 

[Waffle Fries]

Bennett - Crosby - Neal
Kunitz - Malkin - Jokinen

I don't care really, but something has to change to spark those top two lines.

This is exactly what I want to see. Kunitz away from Sid, Neal away from Geno, and Neal and Jokinen away from each other. Force Kunitz to be a puck hound again.