Series Talk: Round 1: Pens vs Rangers

[Flying Dego]

Is Sullivan going to change his approach to coaching and be an evil genius that goated the league during the back half of the regular season?!?

No. Ah beans, then it's the Rags in 6.

 

[LosingStreak06]

Sid and Geno have brought us three Cups. If that’s all we get, it’s enough. I’m choosing to be optimistic anyways: Pens in 6

 

[TheGuiminator]

Fortunately it's not against the NYI again, cause they'd be losing in 4

However, i feel they can get a win or two against the Rangers

So Rangers in 5

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Boo. Another offensively stifling series against a New York team. Yawn.

 

[Beau Knows]

Would have rather lost to the Panthers, this series will be more of a bore.

 

[66-30-33]

Fortunately it's not against the NYI again, cause they'd be losing in 4

However, i feel they can get a win or two against the Rangers

So Rangers in 5

Is that you in your avatar or an NHLer? looks a little familiar but can't put a name to it.

 

[TheGuiminator]

Is that you in your avatar or an NHLer? looks a little familiar but can't put a name to it.

Myself

Which NHLer do I look like?

 

[DearDiary]

Myself

Which NHLer do I look like?

You look like a beta male version of ERod. Do you even lift?

 

[TheGuiminator]

You look like a beta male version of ERod. Do you even lift?

Working on it, so I can become an alpha male version of eRod

 

[Coastal Kev]

Would have rather lost to the Panthers, this series will be more of a bore.

Bingo

 

[Bowski]

#DontForget

 

[metalan2]

I see nothing other than a 5 game series loss with a win in game 4 for the Pens.

I really really hope I'm wrong and the penguins somehow win 4 out of 7. Just saying that seems laughable.

We'll keep it close every game but never be able to pull it out. All big guns will be silent, a guy like Boyle will have a good series, Desmith will play ok too.

 

[HuskerTornado]

Imagine the build up had they traded for Fleury and he was set to start g1 like in 2017.

 

[DearDiary]

#DontForget

Who did that and what did their obituary say?

 

[Baby Punisher]

We purposely played poorly against the Rangers in the regular season as not to show our hand.

What's the excuse for the poor play against the rest of the leauge?

Rangers in 5!

 

[Pancakes]

We're gonna win this series because everyone expects us to lose and that's how these things go

 

[Bowski]

Who did that and what did their obituary say?

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"Graves was suspended four playoff games for the incident, which was more than the New York Rangers anticipated and less than the Pittsburgh Penguins desired."

Penguins don't actually fight anyone going after their stars, lol. Mario, like Jagr/Sid/Geno/etc. have to eventually take matters into their own hands:

 

[Pancakes]

Honestly though all this talk of how shitty we've been and it's true. We have been for a month plus now.

We are on the season a team with a +43 goal differential (almost exactly the same as the Rangers who are +47). We're not much different from them, IF we play to our potential. That's an enormous if, given what we've seen recently. But if both teams brought their best, the Pens are as good or better than the Rangers.

We'll see what happens. Enjoy it. In all likelihood we won't be competitive for too much longer and we'll soon be pining for the days when we even had the tiniest hope of a playoff run.

 

[66-30-33]

Myself

Which NHLer do I look like?

I dunno...just looks familiar. Hey, maybe you're an NHLer. I'll call you...Crosby.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

Was kind of hoping for Florida in the first round, at least that would’ve been exciting, high-event hockey against a good team, causing Sullsma to have to adjust or be totally exposed.

Instead, Sullsma can now grind his way to a bunch of 2-1 and 1-0 losses, and pretend we have a good team that is only a lucky bounce away from winning in the playoffs. Dull, boring, and predictable…sigh.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

I predict the Caps will give Florida all they can handle and that that series will be closer than Pens-Rags…the former should be a fun series to watch

If Ekblad is back, Florida will crush the Caps.

 

[66-30-33]

If Ekblad is back, Florida will crush the Caps.

And it will be glorious!

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Will the Pens score more goals in this series than they did versus the Bruins in 2013?

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

All I want is an entertaining series. Not another painfully boring and one sided one like Boston 2013 or NYI 2019.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I think the Pens' performance and effort in Game 1 will be very telling. If they come out guns blazing, then I'll have a bit more confidence (though still not a lot) that we could pull this out. But if they look in Game 1 like they've often looked down the stretch, it'll probably signify a very short series.