CrosbyMalkin
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Many Kings fans and several fans from other teams in the division think it's a good pick up so I am good with it. We play a speed game and he still has his wheels so I like it. Our 4th best RW was Erod and now we have Rust, Kapanen, Carter, and Tanev. That is a very strong group of RW's.
If Carter is used at Center then the Pens put McCann back to LW. That gives us Crosby, Malkin, Carter, and Blueger down the middle and Guentzel, Zucker, McCann, and ZAR at LW. Either way it makes our team much stronger replacing our 4th line we used for most of the season which was Sceviour-Jankowski-Lafferty or some lowly combo like that. Now Pens will put out two 1st lines and two 3rd lines.
This definitely makes our team better. At first I was worried about Caps adding Mantha and Raffl but then I realized they lost Vrana and Panik. Don't see how that makes them better? They already had been a big, older, slow team and now they are bigger and slower but offensively it is pretty much a wash. Trying to be the broad street bullies. They are going to try and pound teams into submission.
Pens beat the Caps with speed this season and I think we still can. It just comes down to how many guys they can hurt before the series is over. Pens are very deep with forwards and defense so we could survive players getting hurt as we have proven over the last 20 games. Pens are 15-3-1 in the last 20 games with much of that with 5 of our top 9 forwards out. Now we just added more forward depth.
If Carter is used at Center then the Pens put McCann back to LW. That gives us Crosby, Malkin, Carter, and Blueger down the middle and Guentzel, Zucker, McCann, and ZAR at LW. Either way it makes our team much stronger replacing our 4th line we used for most of the season which was Sceviour-Jankowski-Lafferty or some lowly combo like that. Now Pens will put out two 1st lines and two 3rd lines.
This definitely makes our team better. At first I was worried about Caps adding Mantha and Raffl but then I realized they lost Vrana and Panik. Don't see how that makes them better? They already had been a big, older, slow team and now they are bigger and slower but offensively it is pretty much a wash. Trying to be the broad street bullies. They are going to try and pound teams into submission.
Pens beat the Caps with speed this season and I think we still can. It just comes down to how many guys they can hurt before the series is over. Pens are very deep with forwards and defense so we could survive players getting hurt as we have proven over the last 20 games. Pens are 15-3-1 in the last 20 games with much of that with 5 of our top 9 forwards out. Now we just added more forward depth.