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NJ is gonna beat ANA tonight and Philly plays Washington so that's a lose-lose for us. It'll prolly go to OT.
Post-Game Talk: Pens vs Kraken: Loss - for want of a goal
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Darren McCord
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This honestly seems like the most plausible thing at this point. He has a 7 year deal. It is longer than every player and coach.
Why make the hard decision like firing sullivan when you can wait it out until the players and coaches all fail or want out.
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Icarium
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Mike Rupp saying "Harkins gets it done" epitomizes the Penguins' current level of pathetic mediocrity.
Sidney the Kidney
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It's almost like it's a coach's job to know how to utilize players and not just pigeon hole them into roles they struggle with.
Gold Diamond
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Once again......
Less than the sum of their parts.
This team needs an Edmonton-lite winning streak, but they can't even manage that anymore. Sell the passengers on this team and look to next year.
Less than the sum of their parts.
This team needs an Edmonton-lite winning streak, but they can't even manage that anymore. Sell the passengers on this team and look to next year.
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A smart GM would be taking away toys at this point in the season and forcing new options on Sullivan for the mere sake of "seeing what we have".
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I'm pretty sure that Sullivan still won't get fired if that were to happen.
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Mike Rupp is like the very definition of mediocre and the fact that he was a fan fave for any length of time is pretty much the most damning indictment of the entire Western PA area I can think of.
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Problem is we've acquired so many "toys" that Dubas would have to overhaul like 50% of the roster to do so.
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Waive Harkins, trade Acciari, HS Pujujvarvi...there's 3 slots right there.
HandshakeLine
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A smart coach would have tried some of that as early as camp, but people were all "no, every coach does this, what are you implying?"
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True but a part of that is also signing guys like Nieto and claiming guys like Harkins.
Dubas could have just said: Make due with Zohorna, Hinostroza, and Poulin.
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I think it's perfectly fine and right to hold Dubas' feet to the fire.
But again... Imma laugh when Sullivan is finally falling out of favor and/or gone and all these articles start dropping about the insane amount of pull he had on roster construction year to year. IMO this is more his roster than the GM's. And he's the one constant and big voice in the room the last 5 years.
But again... Imma laugh when Sullivan is finally falling out of favor and/or gone and all these articles start dropping about the insane amount of pull he had on roster construction year to year. IMO this is more his roster than the GM's. And he's the one constant and big voice in the room the last 5 years.
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On the bright side, only 25 games until Carter f***s off.
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Totally in agreement. It's just wild that people were defending some of the early season stuff, even discounting the benefit of hindsight.
The immediate Pensblog memeization of Carter reminded me of how much Pensblog also liked players like Rupp who had one moment of doing something interesting with the Pens and then was pretty much just like... well, Carter. Useless.
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Thank goodness I didn't watch this game or I might have had a little meltdown when they evidently shoved his husk out there for the EN.
But no by all means lets try to pump Jeff Carter's tires. He's got what like 2 assists this year? Yeah that guy is gonna get it done, Mike.
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Can someone remind me what precipitated Edm going on a heater? I can't quite remember....
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Just refocused after a period of time where the team wasn't executing well
Just standard stuff that ANY team would do to re-direct their destiny
I'm sure nothing big
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Please someone send an offer for Carter to get that sweet "vet leadership".
I heard they just kept playing their game and eventually it all came into place. No need to think any deeper about it, especially as to their coaching.
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Soo they just "got to their game" and had more stickitoitiveness?
We should really try that sometime
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Trust the process, we will figure out that zone entries on the power play thing any day now. Maybe even before the end of the decade.
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