Wings fan here. I've have not seen the Penguins go off the rails like that in a long time. What gives?
I will try to give you a solid answer, no flaming. It happens against the Flyers sometimes (well, quite a lot actually). Yesterday, the frustration was kinda understandable. Bad game vs Boston the other day and then bad start vs DET. The refs haven´t made us any favors either with those 5on3s and misconducts, then a disallowed goal. I mean, why is it so hard to understand the frustration? They are humen after all.Wings fan here. I've have not seen the Penguins go off the rails like that in a long time. What gives?
Big expectations?
Lets say you have a team where the four go to players are two centers, a defender and a goalie. The two centers are first and second in the league on ppg, the defenseman leads all such in ppg and us having his best ever season also from a defensive perspective (at least minus the first month of the season). The goalie? He us having his best ever season statistically.
Add to this, the team spends to the cap and used plenty of futures this season to further top up.
That's the Pens. If we should not have great expectations, who should?
When we consistently don't deliver when needed, it is only natural that people try to look beyond the numbers. No easy truths, but clearly there's more to winning than points per game for individuals.
What a joke. A pro league that officiates based on reputation.
BB is just another third liner now. Another failed first round pick.
He will develop elsewhere and be a 20+ goal scorer per year, mark my words.
I'm convinced this organization cannot develop any players themselves and rely on young talent to make their choice simple for them to keep them.
Outside of top picks in the draft and the luck of Maatta and Letang, who have the Pens developed recently? Exactly.
The problem is that we have nobody to try in a top-6 role. Bennett was already broken from Bylsma & co., and I'm fine with him as 3rd line to try to go back on the right path without the pressure of top-6 duties.Basically, outside of Letang, few players for the Pens are drafted and make a star name for themselves unless they are NHL ready out of the box and are in the league as 18 or 19 year olds... they just don't give them the NHL minutes in the correct roles to develop them... they would rather play a 35+ year old vet on the decline than a young guy in the top 6 despite NHL regular season games being relatively meaningless...
I imagine Letang saying "do you not see him flopping? is this a joke?".
Refs already in a tizzy from Downie and Kunitz and T'ed him up, the max.
The fact that officials openly acknowledge that they make or do not make calls, based on reputation or how a team acts is a joke. Do the Pens need to act more professional? Yes. However, so do the refs. These guys get six figure salaries to call an impartial and fair game. If the way a team acts causes them to "teach them a lesson" by allowing other teams to get away with stuff while they hammer said team with penalties, that is essentially fixing the game, which is a crime!
I'm sorry but part of the reason refs make so much is the fact that they will have to put up with some crap. If they are to fragile to take some chirping, they don't deserve the job, or the money that goes with it. A lot of people have jobs where they put up with way more ****, and get paid way less. If someone goes over the line and you want to give them a 10, fine, but when that player returns, if he gets roughed, or hooked, or tripped, call it, because that is your job. IF the player needs taught a lesson, it's up to the league to do it, not the officials. In fact, if refs overstep their boundaries and purposely screw a team to prove a point, the league should punish them too.
I blame the Penguin organization. They should be raising holy hell with the league and should push severe punishment for Referee bias.
The fact that officials openly acknowledge that they make or do not make calls, based on reputation or how a team acts is a joke. Do the Pens need to act more professional? Yes. However, so do the refs. These guys get six figure salaries to call an impartial and fair game. If the way a team acts causes them to "teach them a lesson" by allowing other teams to get away with stuff while they hammer said team with penalties, that is essentially fixing the game, which is a crime!
I'm sorry but part of the reason refs make so much is the fact that they will have to put up with some crap. If they are to fragile to take some chirping, they don't deserve the job, or the money that goes with it. A lot of people have jobs where they put up with way more ****, and get paid way less. If someone goes over the line and you want to give them a 10, fine, but when that player returns, if he gets roughed, or hooked, or tripped, call it, because that is your job. IF the player needs taught a lesson, it's up to the league to do it, not the officials. In fact, if refs overstep their boundaries and purposely screw a team to prove a point, the league should punish them too.
Anyway, this organization sucks. Detroit is the softest team in the league, and they completely punked us. Guess what that makes us? I still cannot wrap my head around why anyone in their right mind would think being soft as butter is a winning formula in a physical sport. I can't imagine any other organization, in any other sport saying 'we have too many big, physical, aggressive players. We need to replace them with small, weak, timid guys.'
Again, Detroit is a soft team, but look at what their D did to Horny around the net, and then compare that to our D. It's laughable.
what the heck is a triple screen? there were 2 players there, and they werent top of his crease either.The 2nd goal was certainly bad. However the 1st was a deflection through a triple screen so I don't blame him there.
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