Post-Game Talk: Plus/Minus: Pens vs. Red Wings - Yiiiiiiiiikes...

[billybudd]

Re: Comeau on the second line. I like what he's done here, but we do not want this for any longer than necessary. Things just start going wrong for him the more responsibility he gets.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Minus everything. Everyone gets a ****ing minus

James Neal has a hat trick and all 3 goals against chicago right now.

He has 5 goals in 7 games, 0 assists. Lol, good ol' Neal. Still don't miss him.

 

[Killahpunk]

Where's the drinking GIF? i'm about to go do that right now.

 

[gdsmack267]

Who wants a beer or 12?

 

[SidDidNothingWrong]

Trade away the core one by one.
Bylsma and Shero screwed the development of this team. You can see it easily and clear as day. The Pens the past two games have played dominant Hockey in the first period and then regressed and reverted back to Bylsma Hockey at the end of each game. It is time to start saying goodbye to players.
Crosby acted like a dick.
**** compete level.
Sloppy play.
I don't even need to list it all because we all know what is wrong. Letang still plays like a forward and drives the puck in deep when he should be passing it.
DB isn't the problem anymore(even though he may have caused the problem to begin with).
This team has too much baggage.

 

[Coastal Kev]

I hate to sound like a broken record, but this roster needs a major flushing. Trading Martin for a winger isn't the solution. To there core, this team is soft, both physically and mentally. The defense are all the same PMD, Shero really screwed the pooch with his roster development. This is why a guy like Lovejoy can go to the Ducks and flourish because he fits a skill they didn't have. Pens on the contrary have the same type of D here and in the minors. JR has some serious work ahead of him, it's time to go to work!!

 

[Michael8771*]

ya typical crosby can't score

He does that same move nearly every time.

 

[PensPlz]

For the people seriously giving Greiss a + on this game: if it were Fleury that played this exact same game, the exact same way and with the exact same outcome, would you give him a + as well?

I'm not saying he does or doesn't deserve a +, but I think a lot of you would be ****ing all over Flower right now.

 

[66-30-33]

being up 2 with just under 3 minutes left is the worst lead to have.

I was watching with my dad, i called the 3-2 goal 20 seconds before it happened. I called the 3-3 tie well before it happened. I called the SO loss well before it happened. Team is predictable as ****, does not matter what coach we have.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Seriously, why did we pass up so many shots in prime scoring areas?

This was our BIGGEST PROBLEM.

 

[Gumbercules]

Johnston needs to make his mark on this team's identity now. Not in March, not in a few weeks. The players need to understand now, that if they aren't willing to play with passion for sixty minutes, they are going to pay the price via a loss in minutes, and bag skate practices, and ultimately having JR replace them via call-ups or trades.

Completely unacceptable, and its been going on for years. Bylsma wouldn't do anything about it, and if Johnston doesn't, this team will be out in the playoffs promptly again. The culture change we desperately need hasn't occurred yet like we were hoping it would with all the roster moves in the summer.

 

[AR5]

<Re: Harrison Ford dude, who I usually agree with when it comes to trading MArtin/etc, for Marleau, but this time don't at all agree with. And your post went missing>

Not just one plus, sir.

I gave him 10 "+'s".

He kept the Penguins in it despite their terribleness. Got us a point. AND, he showed the team that there is at least one decent goalie on the team.

the OT goal is COMPLETELY on Martin.

The Zetterberg goal is just superior Babcock coaching to pull the goalie at 3m, plus Zetterberg is A++.

 

[MtlPenFan]

Just love watching Letang come in on the goalie in overtime and instead of shooting trying to pass.

He passed because he would have missed the net

 

[ObsessedCreative*]

Sids been in 2013 playoff mode the past two games!

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Seriously, why did we pass up so many shots in prime scoring areas?

This was our BIGGEST PROBLEM.

If it's not a one-timer it doesn't count.

 

[Boocock]

Trade
Kunitz
Adams
Scuderi
Martin
Letang

Hold
Sutter

Keep
Crosby
Hornqvist
Malkin
Dupuis
Spaling
Goc
Comeau
Downie
Sill
Maata
Ehrhoff
Despres

 

[Tender Rip]

Stings....

I am coming to hate Kris Letang. Terrible, terrible give away by Martin at the end. Scuds could up and vanish and I'd smile like a crocodile, and never mind Dupuis' goal (which was nice), it SICKENS me, that the "least compatible with Malkin" top9 forward is the guy we play there.

I liked Malkin, Despres, Goc, Comeau and Spaling tonight. The rest were average to poor after a very good first period.

Amateurish to allow this game to slip.

 

[clefty]

We just...suck at everything right now. Without a 50% powerplay to act as a masquerade, it's pretty clear that this team so far has the exact same identity as last years with a thin coat of paint - only they've managed to be even worse defensively.

Play well for 10 minutes then phone it in for 50, getting progressively worse with each passing shift. How many more times do I need to see this. At least half of our shots came in the first half of the opening frame, and we had maybe two legitimate scoring chances from then on and we flubbed on both, one of them being an empty net.

It continues to be embarrassingly easy to get on top of us. We just shrink the moment anyone begins to string three or four decent shifts together; It's punch, counterpunch, TKO.

 

[Michael8771*]

Kronwall was freakin awesome tonight! Damn! He destroyed us.

 

[Houston Penguin]

You insane, dude?!m

It would've been 7-3 DET, if MAF had been in net.

Nothing you can do as a goalie with a bunch of aging dodos, behind you, on Defense.

I want Tocchet to throw some punches in that locker room tonight.

Who cares what the score could have been? Two points is two points! Those same " dodos" we're in front of Fleury last night!

 

[billybudd]

I am going to love watching 4 / 27 / 7 / 58 suck a bag o-D's night in an pe night out!

I love to watch the Penguins world burn!

Not that I want anything to do with either, but 4 and 27 weren't that bad. They shouldn't be scapegoated for this loss.

 

[ColePens]

Let's please stop using the "r" word. There is going to be 0 tolerance on it. We can choose better words.

 

[RangerRider114]

Crosby: What the **** was that Sid? He reverted back to east-west passing and sloppy play. This is one of the first times he deserves all the criticism he gets. He played like a little baby tonight. You could just tell he was agitated. Very unlike Sid.

Actually its very Sid-like.... when things aren't going well.

 

[MtlPenFan]

For the people seriously giving Greiss a + on this game: if it were Fleury that played this exact same game, the exact same way and with the exact same outcome, would you give him a + as well?

I'm not saying he does or doesn't deserve a +, but I think a lot of you would be ****ing all over Flower right now.

I love that your standards are so high.

 

[Dinfire]

Ugly. Two games where you completely collapse in the final moments out of six. I'm not pushing the panic button, though. I figured they'd start slow.