Post-Game Talk: Pens vs Preds win: Hold on to your butts

[BrookswasHere44]

Pens don't deserve to make playoffs. They are the best team of the pathetic remaining lot and clinched teams know it and don't want to face them

 

[Kristopher Letang]

Pretty funny that for all the huge off-season and in-season changes, the Pens are right back where they were last year: on the bubble with one game left.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Detroit needs to lose in some fashion tomorrow and Washington needs to lose to Philly.

If Detroit wins or Washington wins, season is over no matter what the Pens do Wednesday in New York.

I feel like I need to bathe in boiling acid having to root for the f***ing Flyers.

 

[vodeni]

what bothers me they will spin this as somehow heroic push as if they were playing on PK all season long...just f***ing awful

 

[Gurglesons]

Pretty funny that for all the huge off-season and in-season changes, the Pens are right back where they were last year: on the bubble with one game left.

You mean.. we will be out of the playoffs with one game left

 

[Extra Texture]

Great effort tonight, should’ve been a blowout but for the disallowed Goals. Too bad it will probably be for naught, but oh well


Edit: I can’t shake the feeling that even if the dice rolled our way tomorrow, we would lay an egg facing the Islanders and it would be over anyway

 

[Hockey4Lyfe]

Last couple of weeks have been fun with the way they have played.

This team still needs a major shakeup and a scoring winger to replace Smith and Guentzel.

Also, once again, nuke the f***ing bottom 6.

Go Pirates!!

 

[Gurglesons]

what bothers me they will spin this as somehow heroic push as if they were playing on PK all season long...just f***ing awful

Exactly. It's been a fun run, but the Penguins blew two points in this run that they shouldn't have. Get those two points and you're in.

Same old Sullyguins.

 

[Gumbercules]

No help this evening. That's why you take games in October against the Blackhawks seriously and keep your foot down when you have 4 goal leads against the Avs, so you don't have to rely on bottom feeders and teams with nothing to play for down the stretch.

Still a sliver of a chance. Stranger things have happened. It's nice to see the Pens play with heart like the have the last couple of weeks, so hopefully they have reason on Wednesday to lay it all down.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

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Dubas deserves a ton of blame as well for sitting on his hands all year.

 

[OnMyOwn]

Maybe they should've just won a few points they gave away instead of "showing hearts and guts".

This team f***ing buried the season. I could give a shit what they did to finish it.

Frustrating that this level of play was in this team all season and only came on at the end. Also a shame it’s another 90+ point season wasted of the last sid years we have.

 

[Pancakes]

You mean.. we will be out of the playoffs with one game left

Yeah 100% one of those teams is gonna win tomorrow. It's over

 

[Kristopher Letang]

I wanted the 4 playoffs games so bad. Idk what I’m gonna do with all this extra time

 

[Turin]

No they aren't. A win tomorrow and the Habs and Wings losing in either regulation or OT gets them in the playoffs.

Their chances aren't great (probably like 20%) but they still have a chance.

I mean we're cheering for two garbage teams to win AND for the Pens to win after that happens. I won't hold my breath.

 

[Andy99]

Detroit needs to lose in some fashion tomorrow and Washington needs to lose to Philly.

If Detroit wins or Washington wins, season is over no matter what the Pens do Wednesday in New York.

Caps and Detroit can lose in OT tomorrow as long as we get a regulation win I believe

 

[BusinessGoose]

If only they could have done that ONE more time this year

 

[Gurglesons]

I wanted the 4 playoffs games so bad. Idk what I’m gonna do with all this extra time

Watch the team that fired their coach in the 3 seed?

 

[Shaftception]

So many games can be highlighted this season that they found ways to lose, unfortunately, many for the same repeated reasons.

How about the first game of the season? Proof that "it's just one game" or "it's early in the season" can actually come back to bite you.

Up 2-0 halfway through the 2nd, proceed to give up 4 straight goals in Bedard's debut to an expected tanking team.

SIgns of nothing changing from the previous year, as well as eventually things to come for this one.

Such a shame, small changes here or there and they would've easily been in a playoff position today.

All in all I'm just glad they won enough to give SJ the 1st this year instead of next, I don't have as much confidence that all 4 of the core remain as healthy next year as they were fortunate enough to stay during this one.

 

[spfan]

Imagine Caps and Detroit both lose in regulation and Pens even lose too, but Pens lose in OT and Pens get in on the tie breaker! That would be hilariously chaotic.

 

[Gurglesons]

Caps and Detroit can lose in OT tomorrow as long as we get a regulation win I believe

Nope. we have the tie breaker.

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

We'll know tomorrow night if that game vs the Isles on Wednesday means anything.

A loss by both WAS and DET, in regulation or OT tomorrow gives us a chance.

 

[george14]

Pens W + DET & WSH OTL or L.

PHI has won 2 straight and will best rested. DET went life and death with MTL. I actually think the hardest task will be beating NYI.

 

[Pancakes]

I know it's technically better for us to be giving up this year's pick to SJ instead of next but it's gonna be a loooong summer having no draft lottery to look forward to and no playoffs to care about

 

[SEALBound]

Kid in a Carter jersey get the St. Ivany jersey. What a wild time.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Yeah 100% one of those teams is gonna win tomorrow. It's over

Most likely. Think of how difficult it is to hit a 3 game parlay, which is basically what we need for the pens to make it. It never goes the way you want.