KIRK
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I wouldn’t say not close but I wouldn’t say he’s a solid #3 most games either. He should be a 4 with a solid partner.
That's fair.
That's also not what a team should be paying 5.5M per for.
I wouldn’t say not close but I wouldn’t say he’s a solid #3 most games either. He should be a 4 with a solid partner.
Sullivan to JR's quote "challenge accepted"
RIP Teddy, it was nice knowing you and enjoy your natchos.
DAD!!!!!
“Teddy Blueger [is] done,” Rutherford said. “I’ve seen...enough."
Trading Kessel and Maatta is pretty major surgery.
How many players on the 2016 cup championship team were with the Pens were on the team 20 months earlier to open the 2014-2015 season? JR cleaned house. Not immediately, but over the following 16 months, by the 2016 trade deadline, he certainly had.
I don’t miss Fleury at all watching him under pressure.
Wrong thread but true
Maybe the local youth hockey club?Would anyone want to hire Mike Babcock if he is fired from the Leafs?
Sadly, Caps own the Bruins. But maybe the well-rested Isles have something to say about this?Boston will go as far as Rask takes them.
Nice knowing you TB...
My man just got Spoulioted:
How Jim Rutherford thinks the Penguins can get faster
Hopefully it puts to bed any possible Murray for Fleury ideas.
Playoffs are a different beast. I think the B's have youth on their side that fuels them and beating a team like the Leafs in 7 is a huge win for a lot of the kids on that team.Sadly, Caps own the Bruins. But maybe the well-rested Isles have something to say about this?
Fleury was pretty freaking amazing in OT. Who saw secret weapon Goodrow?I don’t miss Fleury at all watching him under pressure.
Wrong thread but true
GRAMPS!Actually, at the end of another 4 years, he'll be GRANDPA.
Yes, I did think the Leafs had them, but now that the Caps are tested and without the Western PA monkey on their back, it could be interesting. And BOS hasn't surged for a few years now. But for all (very little) I know, it could be CBJ v Carolina in the ECF. I'm not sure I'd even watch. Then again, I just watched VGK / SJ and it was one of the greatest playoff games I've ever seen.Playoffs are a different beast. I think the B's have youth on their side that fuels them and beating a team like the Leafs in 7 is a huge win for a lot of the kids on that team.
That's fair.
That's also not what a team should be paying 5.5M per for.
I agree with everything you said, but I think how fast they can play would still be limited by Maatta, JMFJ, and Gudbranson. Petterson is fine, but he shouldn't be the best puck mover on his pairing.@Mr Jiggyfly - The best thing about that entire article is that JR basically talks about the right things, but he's directly talking about the coaching and the style and then he says he likes the defense.
There's some clear stuff being said there, that the team does not need a bunch of burners, they played a faster game because of the way they functioned as a 5 man unit (something I have argued to death about how this team has veered very far away from the last 2 seasons).
JR can go get every fast player available and add them to the roster, speed isn't just skating super fast. It's about how quickly to push that puck up the other way and support it, including team defense which was just so lackluster all season and last. We were constantly getting blown the hell out of the water by teams early on. Pens, after the 2nd cup, completely lost that ability and this goes before JJ and after JJ, so a certain someone can calm his ass about that crap.
I am all for changes, I think this team needs a couple of new faces and to boot some familiar faces from last season - the **** out.
But if he's mentioning coaching, he needs to point out coaching issues. Don't grow a back bone and then wuss out.
I agree with everything you said, but I think how fast they can play would still be limited by Maatta, JMFJ, and Gudbranson. Petterson is fine, but he shouldn't be the best puck mover on his pairing.
@Mr Jiggyfly - The best thing about that entire article is that JR basically talks about the right things, but he's directly talking about the coaching and the style and then he says he likes the defense.
There's some clear stuff being said there, that the team does not need a bunch of burners, they played a faster game because of the way they functioned as a 5 man unit (something I have argued to death about how this team has veered very far away from the last 2 seasons).
JR can go get every fast player available and add them to the roster, speed isn't just skating super fast. It's about how quickly to push that puck up the other way and support it, including team defense which was just so lackluster all season and last. We were constantly getting blown the hell out of the water by teams early on. Pens, after the 2nd cup, completely lost that ability and this goes before JJ and after JJ, so a certain someone can calm his ass about that crap.
I am all for changes, I think this team needs a couple of new faces and to boot some familiar faces from last season - the **** out.
But if he's mentioning coaching, he needs to point out coaching issues. Don't grow a back bone and then wuss out.
I recant that Petterson shouldn't be the best puck mover on his pairing, but I don't think he's a good enough puck mover to carry someone like Gudbranson.I don't think it's a problem for Pettersson to be the best puck mover on his pair. A Pettersson-Gudbranson pair would be perfectly fine, in terms of puck moving, on a fast team reliant on puck moving and it's a good bottom pair overall. The problem is when your 2nd pair is a disaster when it comes to their transition game. Schultz has never been a particularly great transition defenseman (he's an OFD, not a puck mover) and Johnson's rock level hockey IQ makes him an incompetent puck mover.
The Penguins 1st and 3rd pairs are both good, there isn't much of a reason to complain about them. The problem is with their 2nd pair, and that's for both members of their 2nd pair. I think your 2nd pair would vastly improve by either adding a solid puck mover (someone on Cole's caliber) to replace Johnson or by adding a great puck mover (someone on younger Goligoski's caliber) to replace Schultz.