yea that would be a fun series for sure. It would be interesting to be a legit underdog.
I'm not saying we'll miss. What I am saying is I don't think it would be a bad thing if we did. There's too many teams better than us we'd have to go through. If it were one team like Tampa, maybe we get lucky, but that won't be the case. Sometimes you have to take a step backward in order to make the necessary changes and put yourself in a better position over the next few years.
Especially against Columbus. Honestly, going into this 2 game stretch, I sort of expected 1-1 against them. They were due to beat the Pens.
Lol the guy had maybe 3or 4 games in total that weren't good. Pettersson had a 2 week stretch where he was downright abysmal.
That would be fun, but it would require us to finish below two of the the following three- CeeBeeJays, Habs, Canes. That just seems sad.
And hypothetically lets say we somehow win that series, we're still looking at two of the Caps, Bruins or Leafs. I just don't see a path forward there. If you're ok losing in the 2hd round ok. I'd prefer our stars get a longer off season and we retool. Because on the off chance we do miss the playoffs you can bet some changes will be made.
I can't wait for JR to burn his elc and have Sully deal the finishing move on that unsuspecting fool.The optimistic part of me says if we dont, we can land a really good prospect in this upcoming draft. And we will be drafting higher than usual in all rounds. A potential building block(s) to the post Crosby Geno era with the 1st rounder.
There is that. But we won't go that far yet
I saw Guds make solid tape to tape passes as a Penguin. So far all the hate he is getting is for prior stuff before he wore a pens jersey. Which none matters to me at all. What matters is what he does in a pens uniform and so far he's been solid in his end and makes a decent first pass.
I'm more an all or nothing person. Do I want to be mediocre year after year and squeak into the playoffs like Minnesota for example? No, I d rather be real good or terribly awful and pile up high draft picks as we did in '84, 03, 04 ,05 and 06. Obviously that's not the same scenario here, or likely to be, but I'd like us to get a high draft pick if we could. It's been quite some time.
