LmaoooThis is the season JJ turns it around
MP and his camp wanted the deal done so he can get his work visa and train in Pittsburgh. At the rate JR is going, they might as well just trade him and make this full circle of idiocy when JJ is still a regular for us.I still think they send JJ to WBS. No reason for me to think this other than it gives them cap room to sign MP (if/when they send ZT to WBS too). It'd be a one year, cheaper deal, but it'd work.
This is the season JJ turns it around
Turns what around?
Is it crazy that I think whether or not Johnson plays will basically determine whether we're contending for first in the division or struggling for a wild card spot.
This opinion will probably be about as popular as "Bambi's mum had it coming", but the idea of Johnson having at least a moderate turnaround isn't that far fetched. Just looking at his stats, his relative possession stats were about the worst they've been since CBJ, and his individual production's never been worse. Maybe he just aged out of being quite bad to eldritch affront to humanity's sanity, but if he didn't, then he's definitely capable of being better (and so's the team around him).
The big question is whether he can turn it around enough to actually be worthwhile.
Is it crazy that I think whether or not Johnson plays will basically determine whether we're contending for first in the division or struggling for a wild card spot.
Gets turned around? Multiple times a night?This is the season JJ turns it around
Is it crazy that I think whether or not Johnson plays will basically determine whether we're contending for first in the division or struggling for a wild card spot.
Is it crazy that I think whether or not Johnson plays will basically determine whether we're contending for first in the division or struggling for a wild card spot.
I guess more to the point is if he's getting regular time with Crosby or Malkin. Because he completely neutralizes whoever he's with and without Kessel I don't know if we can PP our way past that.Yes that is crazy, regardless of how good or bad you think Johnson is.
I guess more to the point is if he's getting regular time with Crosby or Malkin. Because he completely neutralizes whoever he's with and without Kessel I don't know if we can PP our way past that.
Sending him to WBS is unlikely IMO just because of how little of cap relief we get. A big majority of his cap hit would stay with the team even if we demoted him. I don’t want to keep him but I don’t see the team eating that cap hit that would stay.I still think they send JJ to WBS. No reason for me to think this other than it gives them cap room to sign MP (if/when they send ZT to WBS too). It'd be a one year, cheaper deal, but it'd work.
Is it crazy that I think whether or not Johnson plays will basically determine whether we're contending for first in the division or struggling for a wild card spot.
This opinion will probably be about as popular as "Bambi's mum had it coming", but the idea of Johnson having at least a moderate turnaround isn't that far fetched. Just looking at his stats, his relative possession stats were about the worst they've been since CBJ, and his individual production's never been worse. Maybe he just aged out of being quite bad to eldritch affront to humanity's sanity, but if he didn't, then he's definitely capable of being better (and so's the team around him).
The big question is whether he can turn it around enough to actually be worthwhile.
Not only is it ridiculous to suggest that 1 bad defenseman can shut down an entire scoring line with Crosby or Malkin, it's also ridiculous to suggest a guy that will likely be playing 17 minutes a night, with only 13 or so minutes a night at ES, will be able to single handidly bring down a team. It doesn't have to do with how bad Johnson is, it's a gross exaggeration of what 1 bad player can do to a team. Johnson is 1 of 5 players on the ice at any given time and he'll at most be playing like 30% of a game. He can have a very negative impact relative to other players, but it's impossible for him to have as large of a negative impact as people here try to suggest.
When Malkin and Johnson were on the ice together last year, their 5v5 GF-GA ratio was 16-19. When Malkin was on the ice but Johnson wasn't, Malkin had a GF-GA ratio of 28-27. Johnson has a negative impact, but pretending he alone can bring down an entire line, and in turn an entire team, is just a gross exaggeration. There's no other way to put it. Johnson sucks relative to his peers, but even the worst player can't do that kind of damage alone.
I guess the trials and tribulations of Derick Brassard continue in earnest as he is heavily rumored to be close to signing a one year deal with... Edmonton.
As a beer vendor?
MP and his camp wanted the deal done so he can get his work visa and train in Pittsburgh. At the rate JR is going, they might as well just trade him and make this full circle of idiocy when JJ is still a regular for us.
I guess the trials and tribulations of Derick Brassard continue in earnest as he is heavily rumored to be close to signing a one year deal with... Edmonton.
Any word for how much?
I'm probably reading this wrong, but...the worst he's been on since his last team, the previous year?
The "turnaround guys" cited from the Penguins' recent past are usually Martin and Gonchar.
It's easy to see how they were capable of that and why Johnson is almost certainty not.
If they shelter him heavily, keep his minutes low, micromanage his deployment, everything breaks right injury-wise (loooooooollllll) and Sullivan and his staff and resist the temptation to overplay him I could see him maybe being, well... just there. Do no harm and all that. Johnson does not have the puck skills, mobility, or hockey IQ to rebound. Though I suppose life is strange.
Can't it sometimes take a bit to sort out work visas, though?