Pre-Game Talk: Pens vs Sens

[Speaking Moistly]

It's always the useful players who get hurt on this team as well. Over the last few years Crosby, Malkin, Letang, Beau, Mattaa and others have all gone down. Meanwhile, Kunitz, Adams, Scuderi and Lovejoy have been made of iron or something. Maybe other teams are taking it easy on those guys so the Pens won't be forced to take them out of the lineup.

Excuse you, Kunitz has his crippling iron deficiency and had a career ruining foot injury last season.


Adams did get hurt, though. Bylsma was weirdly proud of Craigers playing through every injury know to man and under Johnston he did miss games due to injury. It's probably that he went around in equipment like a suit of armour and was too slow to keep up with anything for years on top of Disco's fetish. Scuderi had that ankle nary but has been an iron man ever since,.

 

[billybudd]

Except both Kunitz and Scuderi have been injured, and Lovejoy this go around hasn't been on the team that long.

Adams was Adams.

Adams was always hurt, he just played anyway because he's a tank. He didn't play well, but there's a certain admiration that should be expressed for a guy who probably wouldn't have missed a game with a broken back.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Adams was always hurt, he just played anyway because he's a tank. He didn't play well, but there's a certain admiration that should be expressed for a guy who probably wouldn't have missed a game with a broken back.

No admiration for a guy who played like **** who happened to be hurt. I'd give him admiration if he had the self awareness to realize that watching from the pressbox was the best thing he could do for the team.

 

[UnderratedBrooks44]

Beau concussed himself after last game thinking about the prospect of having a drama free season.

 

[Saints11]

Clendening in for Dumo if I had to place a bet on any lineup changes.

That would be so *** stupid, so you can expect it. Dumo is a lefty playing his off side to accommodate the old man. However, rather than take out Scuderi, take out Dumo who might have been our best d-man on Tuesday, especially when you consider he is playing without a partner. We need to make positive personnel changes, but first we need to rid ourselves from these ***-clown coaches.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Bennett was more or less one of the only two or three guys on the entire club playing anything close to up to snuff so far this year, yeah?

Just making sure everything is still as it should be with this miserable team.

 

[Shady Machine]

Beau lasted 3 games. Well done sir.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Beau concussed himself after last game thinking about the prospect of having a drama free season.

Headbutted the wall a la Gus Frerotte.

 

[mpp9]

Opportunity for Sprong.

 

[cassius]

There is absolutely no evidence that Bennett is hurt. He's missing the morning skate, that's it. People here just like to make up more reasons for them to complain/feel sad about this team.

Beau wasn't hurt on Tuesday and they didn't practice yesterday. So unless he broke his foot at a Rise Against concert or kicked a wall out of anger, it's highly unlikely he's hurt.

Per coach MJ, he's injured.

 

[Woodrow]

Beau lasted 3 games. Well done sir.

A new record for Beau?

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Did they try to play ultimate frisbee out on the ice at practice, yesterday?

Could be the culprit.

 

[UnderratedBrooks44]

Headbutted the wall a la Gus Frerotte.

I love it.

 

[radapex]

Maybe he's been trade?

Traded to the Rangers for Tanner Glass? #Dupuis4Lovejoy

 

[UnderratedBrooks44]

They will trade him once Max signs with a team

 

[radapex]

Farnham was one of the first off the ice, so it looks like he's in for Bennett.

Sigh.

You're surprised by that? Farnham is the only extra forward they've got on the roster...

 

[Jag68Sid87]

Opportunity for Kevin Porter.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Kevin Porter looks like an equipment guy that they had to suit up in an emergency injury situation.

 

[radapex]

Haha.

A) Get off my lawn, punk.
B) I like Beau too, don't want to see him traded, etc. I am a long-time Defender of the Beau.

But I'm not going to accept the idea that there are no other reasons to continue watching this team, this early in the season. Sometimes this stuff happens. Look at the Kings; they have a good roster top to bottom pretty much but they blow right now too. Sometimes it takes a while for a team to get their wheels under them and play the way they should (not in defense of anything our coaches are saying, just stating a hockey fact).

I'm not even ready to throw the coaching staff under the bus when most of the roster is out there giving 25% effort. Doesn't matter who the coach is if the guys aren't going to try.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm not even ready to throw the coaching staff under the bus when most of the roster is out there giving 25% effort. Doesn't matter who the coach is if the guys aren't going to try.

Maybe--and this is kind of off the wall, so stick with me on this one--the coaching staff is responsible for making sure the team is prepared and giving it their utmost effort night in and night out.

 

[radapex]

So he got hurt on the very last shift of the game? Or did something happen off ice? I can't imagine it being serious.

I'm going to go with he got up to pee in the middle of the night, tripped, and fractured his foot. Seems like something that'd happen to him...

 

[radapex]

It's always the useful players who get hurt on this team as well. Over the last few years Crosby, Malkin, Letang, Beau, Mattaa and others have all gone down. Meanwhile, Kunitz, Adams, Scuderi and Lovejoy have been made of iron or something. Maybe other teams are taking it easy on those guys so the Pens won't be forced to take them out of the lineup.

Adams is made of adamantium. Hence the "adam" part. He's indestructible.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

I'm not even ready to throw the coaching staff under the bus when most of the roster is out there giving 25% effort. Doesn't matter who the coach is if the guys aren't going to try.

It's the coach's responsibility that the team is focused and prepared to play. MJ doesn't even go into the locker room apparently.

If getting blown out tonight means MJ gets sacked, let's hope Ottawa lights us up tonight.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

Maybe--and this is kind of off the wall, so stick with me on this one--the coaching staff is responsible for making sure the team is prepared and giving it their utmost effort night in and night out.

Seriously. The team on the ice is a reflection on the coach.