Big McLargehuge
Fragile Traveler
Don't shit on Shane. Like Tom Waits, my man was big in Japan.
The one league where him being tall could actually mean something.
Don't shit on Shane. Like Tom Waits, my man was big in Japan.
Don't shit on Shane. Like Tom Waits, my man was big in Japan.
I remember someone on the the old official Pens forum got in trouble allegedly at a game for heckling Janne Laukkanen and then getting into a confrontation with Laukkanen's parents who were sitting right in front of him. Lord only knows if that was true, but I want to believe.
Hmm. What other teams can we do? Drafted by Penguins vs Acquired Elsewise by Penguins (very unfair given the Cs we've drafted)? Best team of players to have only played a season or less for the Pens? Best team of players to have never won a ring with us?
This would be a pretty good starting lineup if we were to exclude the early 2000s teams. But frankly back in 2003 we would have been begging for any one of those players in the lineup haha... it was THAT bad.
I'm well aware that today's worst have a hell of a task to fit in with some of the awful, awful teams in our history that I thankfully didn't sit through... but I think they need to be considered. Again, it's a bit of a definition thing. Is Brassard as bad as the players back then in terms of skill? Probably not. But his underperformance compared to expectations and situation? I think it'd stack up pretty well.
Well it's funny because you actually touched on why sitting through that era wasn't always THAT bad. Sure... they were never gong to win shit. Actually... winning A GAME was a big deal. Think of the shittiest goal Evgeni Malkin has ever scored... that would have been a beauty in those days. People were popping off on Malone being the next big thing because he scored on a nice deke this one time.
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Well it's funny because you actually touched on why sitting through that era wasn't always THAT bad. Sure... they were never gong to win shit. Actually... winning A GAME was a big deal. Think of the shittiest goal Evgeni Malkin has ever scored... that would have been a beauty in those days. People were popping off on Malone being the next big thing because he scored on a nice deke this one time.
But it wasn't that they didn't try, ya know? They were just TERRIBLE. You couldn't even be that mad. The team had no money and years of suboptimal drafting hadn't left anything worth much in the pipeline. Then there was the uncertainty when it came to the team's future. So you just kinda had to have a sense of humor about the whole thing.
You're right that in most ways the really shitty Penguins that have come sense were more egregious because it's like... there's no excuse for that. So I think it would be interesting to take a deep dive on that someday.