GDT: Preseason Game #2 | Pittsburgh at Columbus

[Honour Over Glory]

None of it comes close to Despres painting his chest and dancing in the crowd.

Wait, that wasn't Martin Brodeur?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I'm not sorry.

This.

 

[BHD]

Adams up to his voodoo tricks again, someone actually wrote this on facebook.

"You don't know hockey well if you say Adams stinks. Craig Adams is the penguins top penalty killer and main fourth liner. The penguins penalty kill was ranked #1 last season most of the year and finished #4 in the NHL. Why would you want to cut m a guy that helps your PK be tops in the nhl year after year?"

Oh my sides.

 

[BHD]

Missed the game but was the encouraged by the shot totals when reading the score.

 

[chethejet]

Mike to Craig: I can get my own damn coffee.

 

[zero8771]

Invisible in a bad way, or we saw him when he wiffed at a wide open net. No way in hell he makes the team.

1 preseason game = no way in hell. got it.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

I'm just going to leave this here...

 

[wgknestrick]

I'm just going to leave this here...

He is going to get cut this week (fingers crossed) without being able to dump the puck in constantly.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

I'm just going to leave this here...

As much as I defended Shero and still think he was a good GM, I can't believe he saddled this team with the Scuds and Adams contracts.

This was a guy who was so cautious about giving out long term deals to non core players.

I still think Scuds can rebound and be a steady, bottom pairing blueliner. I also get he was coming off a nice run in LA so it was going to take term to land him. However, they had too many blueliners as it was.

The Adams signing is one I can't fathom. How did he get two years? I think that's the perfect example of how DB poisoned a good GMs mind IMHO. I can't imagine Shero of several years ago doing that deal. He just wasn't in his right mind.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

He is going to get cut this week (fingers crossed) without being able to dump the puck in constantly.

I believe Adams will still count 6-700k on the cap because it's an over 35 contract. I checked on it earlier this summer and there was no way around it.

I have no idea what they can do with this guy. He's like a roach right now.

Unless they waive him and some GM out there is really high...

 

[Greeneye]

that gif kills me. i still can't believe shero signed him period let alone to a 2 year deal. bylsma deserves what he got after choosing to play adams over better players. john scott might actually be faster than adams at this point. he looks like a mens league player.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Can the Pens just keep every good player somewhere safe?

Larry Brooks ‏@NYP_Brooksie
Stepan helped off ice after going down, clutching left leg/knee, during #NYR conditioning test. No contact, simply fell to ice...
https://twitter.com/NYP_Brooksie/status/514789445791666176

I mean, seriously.

As much as I defended Shero and still think he was a good GM, I can't believe he saddled this team with the Scuds and Adams contracts.

This was a guy who was so cautious about giving out long term deals to non core players.

I still think Scuds can rebound and be a steady, bottom pairing blueliner. I also get he was coming off a nice run in LA so it was going to take term to land him. However, they had too many blueliners as it was.

The Adams signing is one I can't fathom. How did he get two years? I think that's the perfect example of how DB poisoned a good GMs mind IMHO. I can't imagine Shero of several years ago doing that deal. He just wasn't in his right mind.

Shero went weird at the end, or the time leading up to it, whatever. Scuderi and Dupuis got 4 year deals in their mid-thirties, Adams got 2 as a 35+ contract, they talked to ****ing Glass about another contract, etc. There's an etc., ffs.

 

[AjaxTelamon]

that gif kills me. i still can't believe shero signed him period let alone to a 2 year deal. bylsma deserves what he got after choosing to play adams over better players. john scott might actually be faster than adams at this point. he looks like a mens league player.

The simplest thing to do is make him the healthy scratch every single night, and if we go down a forward for more than a game, bring Megna or someone else up to leapfrog him.

If he only gets into 15 games this year, and only 5-6 minutes a game, it will minimize the damage.

All the while, JR should be calling in old favors for someone to take the guy off our hands. It's not like JR wants the guy around, he got rid of him years ago at Carolina.

 

[penguins2946*]

Yeah, I'm kinda glad that Sid and Geno aren't participating in the camp and preseason right now. So far just from the East, Stepan, Datsyuk, Giroux, Staal and Drouin all have had pretty serious injuries from training camp.

 

[Deutschland Dangler]

But why the number one centres? Why not some bottom-pairing, veteran defensemen?

 

[Get To Our Game]

It's so weird to think that management has a real opportunity to not play Craig Adams. I don't think my mind is really wrapped around the concept yet. Could this be real?

 

[Shady Machine]

Well, theres a reason JR used Dumo in his package for Staal. The main thing with him is his decisions with the puck at the NHL level. In the AHL, he has that extra second and can make a good play. The next step and you can see some panic and brain farting going on. Harrington seems to read and react better at the NHL level.

Maybe Dumoulin was used because Shero asked for him.

 

[Boocock]

Kasperi Kapanen had the highest Corsi number out of any forward on the team: http://hockeystats.ca/game/2014010020

 

[The Old Master]

Yeah, I'm kinda glad that Sid and Geno aren't participating in the camp and preseason right now. So far just from the East, Stepan, Datsyuk, Giroux, Staal and Drouin all have had pretty serious injuries from training camp.

we need some teams de to go down, so we can help them out by trading them scuds

 

[penguins2946*]

Kasperi Kapanen had the highest Corsi number out of any forward on the team: http://hockeystats.ca/game/2014010020

No he didn't, Ehrhoff did.

 

[Boocock]

No he didn't, Ehrhoff did.

Either this is a joke related to Ehrhoff's playing style, or you missed the part where I said forward.

 

[ProgOg]

Either this is a joke related to Ehrhoff's playing style, or you missed the part where I said forward.

Well, with all those "Letang should be a winger" articles, why not do the same to Ehrhoff.

 

[penguins2946*]

Either this is a joke related to Ehrhoff's playing style, or you missed the part where I said forward.

Sorry I didn't see the forward part, I thought it just said that Kapanen had the highest Corsi.

 

[Shady Machine]

Can the Pens just keep every good player somewhere safe?

Larry Brooks ‏@NYP_Brooksie
Stepan helped off ice after going down, clutching left leg/knee, during #NYR conditioning test. No contact, simply fell to ice...
https://twitter.com/NYP_Brooksie/status/514789445791666176

I mean, seriously.

Do these guys even train in the off season

 

[IcedCapp]

Do these guys even train in the off season

I wonder if the problem is the opposite. They're training too much