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Pittsburgh Sports Media Gibberish - Part XI (Rossi likes The Godfather Part III)
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When season ticket holders stop renewing they will notice. The average plan is well north of $20,000 for four tickets. That is only regular season. Playoff tickets are much higher. Why keep paying that if they no longer care except for keeping buddies on the payroll? Even for suits that is sacrificing other things to keep going. I bet you see many not renew this off season.
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That Morehouse quote is very telling about just how ****ed this organization really is. Think about it for a minute. They went bankrupt and almost had to move to a new city because they were that poorly run. They were then gifted not one, but two generational talents to build around. Instead of building a deep system through drafting and player development, they went right back to the same old ******** that ruined our 90s teams. Its all about marketing and propaganda with this franchise with no vision or commitment to long term success. I mean look at the Pirates for instance, for being cheap ******** they doing things right. They have an MVP caliber player that they built around and now have one of the deepest systems in all of baseball. So if bankruptcy and two mega gifts can't change the way you do things, nothing will. Oh what I would give to have a system like Detroit or Montreal. We would have 3 cups by now this era, easily. Mario, Ron, and now Morehouse have literally ruined the Crosby/Malkin era. They simply don't get it. Branding? Their concern is branding? Really? **** off.
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He also signed a 34 year old Scuderi to a 4 year deal, a 33 year old Kunitz to a 3 year deal, and a 34 year old Dupuis to a 4 year deal. He re-signed Craig Adams twice, went out and got Tanner Glass. Decided instead of putting his nose to the grindstone and fixing things, to go the bargain-bin route and went after guys like Comrie, Cal O'Reilly, Kobasew, Pyatt, Pesonen. He refused to even entertain the thought of preemptively moving Staal, even after it was plain as day he was on his way out, and waited until the 11th hour to get a return for him--from the one team he would re-sign with. He allowed his best pal Bylsma to stick around and misuse players and prospects for years, all the while failing miserably year after year. He inherited a Cup contender and then did his best to take this organization and drive it into the ground, leaving it a flaming pile of wreckage for the next guy--who also turned out to be a bumbling idiot, surrounded by the same cronies Shero sounded himself with.
Shero wasn't Mike Milbury, but he did a Hell of a lot more harm than good in his time here. The stink of the Shero/Bylsma era is gonna linger on for a while.
Nah, no thanks. We have to do a Hell of a lot better than Shero or JR.
Wholeheartedly disagree with this, but I'll keep it in the roster thread.
Per DK Crosby's take on the intentional offsides....
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• After the Penguins’ morning skate today, Sidney Crosby flatly rejected any notion he might have intentionally gone offside in Game 1 after failing to get an outlet pass from Rob Scuderi.
“I thought he was going to dump it,” the captain said.
Damning as the video looks in general, the explanation is wholly plausible. And yes, Crosby was aware of how damning the video looks and how some were perceiving it.
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• After the Penguins’ morning skate today, Sidney Crosby flatly rejected any notion he might have intentionally gone offside in Game 1 after failing to get an outlet pass from Rob Scuderi.
“I thought he was going to dump it,” the captain said.
Damning as the video looks in general, the explanation is wholly plausible. And yes, Crosby was aware of how damning the video looks and how some were perceiving it.
To be fair, why in the **** would anyone expect Rob Scuderi to skate the puck through the neutral zone and over the blueline?
I'm surprised Scuderi managed to handle the puck for more than 6 feet.
I'm surprised Scuderi managed to handle the puck for more than 6 feet.
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My exact thought too Coach. When was the last time you remeber Scuderi carrying the puck in ever? To those who said he was quitting on the team for some reason I definitely see it in a different way.
On the other hand, who would expect Scuderi to actually a) lift his head and see Crosby coming w speed through neutral and b) actually make a pass longer than 10 feet?
What a mess.
What a mess.
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Great post. And this is why I'm hoping for another embarrassing flameout, maybe a missed playoff next year, and for Mario and Burkle to sell this ****ing team already. Get rid of all these washed-up 'yes-men', liberal campaign writers, etc, and get some people in here that know what it takes to be successful. And if we're very lucky, maybe we'll win another Cup or two at the end of Sid and Geno's careers.
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Yeah, Scuderi literally chose the worst possible option on that play.
A head-man pass to Crosby was the optimal choice, but probably not going to happen given how horrible Scuderi is at passing the puck. So the most obvious play was the second best option, Scuderi firing it into the zone around the boards, with Crosby in full flight to get to it first.
Scuderi instead chose to skate it in for some inexplicable reason.
God, do I hate Scuderi.
But, isn't it on Sid to assume Scuderi would make the worst play possible? I mean, for example, how many times looking for a pass to hit you in stride before you start planning for the pass to be behind?
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But, isn't it on Sid to assume Scuderi would make the worst play possible? I mean, for example, how many times looking for a pass to hit you in stride before you start planning for the pass to be behind?
Anytime Scuderi has the puck in the defensive zone, the other 4 Pens players on the ice should just automatically skate to the slot area and collapse in front of the net for the inevitable giveaway by Scuderi on the failed clearing attempt.
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I don't have an issue with that Morehouse quote. What I have an issue with is that he has a say in personnel decisions.
Columbus had the same setup we presently have for years, where hockey decisions were vetted through a non-hockey branding specialist by the name of Mike Priest. They made the playoffs one time in about 12 years under that arrangement.
With their current configuration, which separates hockey ops from business ops and has a business guy running business ops (Priest) and a hockey guy running hockey ops (John Davidson)--with neither having any say in what the other does--they're 1 for 2.
Columbus had the same setup we presently have for years, where hockey decisions were vetted through a non-hockey branding specialist by the name of Mike Priest. They made the playoffs one time in about 12 years under that arrangement.
With their current configuration, which separates hockey ops from business ops and has a business guy running business ops (Priest) and a hockey guy running hockey ops (John Davidson)--with neither having any say in what the other does--they're 1 for 2.
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