Post-Game Talk: Plus-minus | Penguins 3, Panthers 1

[shureshot66]

Will pass along any Malkin updates as they come along. Unfortunately that overshadows much of the game at the moment.

UPDATES: Nothing forthcoming tonight. Will be reevaluated tomorrow.

If Malkin misses time, Sutter will be moved up to the second line with Jeffrey centering the third.

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[Sideline]

Will pass along any Malkin updates as they come along. Unfortunately that overshadows much of the game at the moment.

**** everything else. That man is the season.

 

[KiuasWarrior]

+ time of possession.

 

[66-30-33]

Thought it was a boring game. Bet that's why Geno crashed into the boards, to get out of it.

 

[SteelFish87*]

+ Letang
+ Niskanen

- Crosby

 

[penzweiser]

I'm glad we have those new doctors this year in case he has a neck injury the old doctors would miss

 

[hctopcheds11]

Legitimately a snooze fest.

Offensively, we were just all around pretty awful at creating high quality scoring chances.

 

[MrBurghundy]

+ Beau Bennett will be a great player for us someday. I hope it's sooner rather than later, but he's shown the talent that lead the Pens to draft him.

 

[Ogelthorpe]

+ Flower
+ Puck Possession
+ Kunitz using his stick in front instead of his skate

As for Geno, I think he will be fine. Got rattled pretty hard, but I don't think he will miss too much time if any......he didn't seem really wobbly when he left the ice. Hoping for the best.

 

[pensfansince88]

+ 19

- 71's injury

 

[Common Sense]

Is anyone watching these idiots on the postgame?

 

[Darth Vitale]

- There's no + big enough to compensate for the potential loss of Malkin.


This team is ****ing cursed.

 

[cajal]

+ nice team rebound effort. they needed to work hard, and they did from the net on out.

- congratulations Panthers, you learned much from playing Filthadelphia last night.

 

[cheesedanish87]

Its hard to imagine Geno doesn't have a concussion after seeing his face after that hit.

 

[Terrapin]

- Anyone still want to talk about this teams 'toughness'? This team is the biggest collection of sissies I've seen in decades. Name one other team in the league in the last 50 years that would have absolutely no response to their star player getting launched into the boards and leaving w/ a possible concussion. Just embarrassing. Whether the hit was dirty or not (I don't think it was) shouldn't matter.

 

[KIRK]

Stuff happens, but I can't imagine a more tepid response than what the Pens gave to Malkin going out. You don't go after the guy who did it. You don't pick up the physical play on their stars. This **** has been going on all season. How many times has Letang been a target? Sid not do much, but he's getting it too. When Malkin gets taken out of a game like that, even on a clean hit, and the Pens do nothing, it sends a message that every one of their stars is fair game. This team is soft, and it's been soft now for a long time. Just pathetic.

 

[KiuasWarrior]

Is anyone watching these idiots on the postgame?

Jays telestration... On a... On a... Icing.

 

[cheesedanish87]

Heres what DB will probably say tonight Geno has a upper body injury hes day to day

 

[IcedCapp]

- Malkin's injury

- BYLSMA BENCHING TK IN 2ND, THROWING HIM OUT THERE IN THE 3RD, 48 TAKING A PENALTY, AND THEN GIVING HIM PP TIME LATER.

I'm so angry about this.

- Sid: I thought he floated most of the game. I don't know if he was tired from playing 27 minutes against Philly, but he didn't seem nearly as engaged imo. Also: STOP PASSING UP GOLDEN SHOT OPPORTUNITIES. And stop the cross-ice passes FFS.

 

[KIRK]

- Anyone still want to talk about this teams 'toughness'? This team is the biggest collection of sissies I've seen in decades. Name one other team in the league in the last 50 years that would have absolutely no response to their star player getting launched into the boards and leaving w/ a possible concussion. Just embarrassing. Whether the hit was dirty or not (I don't think it was) shouldn't matter.

AMEN

Yeah, the Pens won a team missing 5 starters that shot it's load the night before against Philly. If I'm another team watching, all I saw is that I can keep going after Letang and Sid and whoever else on the Pens I want, because there's not a ******* thing the Pens will do about it.

 

[chethejet]

Bennett playing gives the Pens some latitude with the trade deadline. Unlike Dejan who thinks a veteran D Man is the first want, me I still want the RH shot winger for either Malkins or Sids off wing. And he needs to have some size and grit as well. Maybe another Guerin type.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Geno: "You can't break Geno chain, only Geno break Geno chain."

 

[wheelz87]

Idk, I've seen more boring games over the years.

+DJ. Way to get on the score sheet, but I'm sure it will get you benched next game anyways. Unreal pass from Cooke also.

+Fleury. Fantastic game tonight.

+BB. IMO the best winger tonight. Looked really good out there I thought.

+Letang to Despres. Just that one sequence where they passed back and forth a few times right along the blue line, tape to tape and hard. Good display of skill there.

-Malkin's injury. Well we went like 15 games without a major injury, that was just too much for the hockey gods though. Please be ok, big guy.

-Wooing. And it happened at like the 9-10 minute mark in the 3rd. So ******* annoying. Want to personally punch every wooer in the face every time I hear it.

-Empty net opportunities. God damnit Kunitz, does it get any easier? (don't want to turn this into that threat, but does an actual SKILLED winger miss that?) And why does Crosby never get these chances? Best faceoff guy, yet we have Sutter take it.. Sid is also obviously great defensively.. idk why it's like Bylsma doesn't want him to get empty net points. And I realize he was on the ice for like the last 10 seconds.

-Neal. Invisible tonight.

-Mueller's hair. You're playing hockey dude, not the drums.

 

[KIRK]

Heres what DB will probably say tonight Geno has a upper body injury hes day to day

Well, maybe he'll also note that everyone else has lower body injuries, because the lack of response to the hit on Geno tells me none of them have any balls.

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

Obviously malkin's injury

But I would just like to say, how great it is to finally have a skilled winger. Welcome beau