The All Purpose Pens Off Day Thread - Injuries, Practice, Injuries, Lines, More Injuries, etc

[Khelandros]

That might be a bad thing. Andersen's a quality goalie who likely won't have three stinkers in a row.

Pens can win the game if they come out hard and stay structured. Toronto is extremely talented offensively, but they seem to wilt if the opposition plays hard. They feast on you if you give them chance after chance and don't play well.

He's already played 3 stinkers in a row.
Lose vs Dallas, 3 GA, .842SV%
Lose vs Buffalo, 5 GA, .861SV%
Lose vs Pens, 5 GA, .792SV%

 

[Jaded-Fan]

There was an article today giving credit to Pittsburgh Penguins goalie coach Mike Buckley. It is obviously well deserved. Although MM and Jarry deserve all the credit for their seasons and still young careers, it can not be a coincidence that they developed under his care, and Bales before him.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Also somewhat possible that this board holds Sid to a ridiculous standard.

On both sides of the coin, I think.

 

[HandshakeLine]

There was an article today giving credit to Pittsburgh Penguins goalie coach Mike Buckley. It is obviously well deserved. Although MM and Jarry deserve all the credit for their seasons and still young careers, it can not be a coincidence that they developed under his care, and Bales before him.

I was skeptical about Buckley, given MM’s struggles the last few seasons, but now I’m glad to eat crow.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

That might be a bad thing. Andersen's a quality goalie who likely won't have three stinkers in a row.

Pens can win the game if they come out hard and stay structured. Toronto is extremely talented offensively, but they seem to wilt if the opposition plays hard. They feast on you if you give them chance after chance and don't play well.

How prophetic of me.

 

[EightyOne]

How prophetic of me.

I feel this was the more imporant part you got correct:

That might be a bad thing. Andersen's a quality goalie who likely won't have three stinkers in a row.

Pens can win the game if they come out hard and stay structured. Toronto is extremely talented offensively, but they seem to wilt if the opposition plays hard. They feast on you if you give them chance after chance and don't play well.

Which the Pens did not sustain, at all.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I feel this was the more imporant part you got correct:



Which the Pens did not sustain, at all.

It was so predictable, too. It's pretty clear what good teams can do to the Leafs when they play with structure (Tuesday night) and what the Leafs are capable of doing if you give their talented guys room to use their skills (tonight).

Plus, you weren't going to put a 5-spot up on Andersen again. So the Pens needed to be a lot more conscious defensively tonight than they were after the 1st period.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

It was so predictable, too. It's pretty clear what good teams can do to the Leafs when they play with structure (Tuesday night) and what the Leafs are capable of doing if you give their talented guys room to use their skills (tonight).

Plus, you weren't going to put a 5-spot up on Andersen again. So the Pens needed to be a lot more conscious defensively tonight than they were after the 1st period.

Andersen is 5-5 vs the Pens all-time, with a .924 Sv% so he is good against the Pens, but not that good, the only team he is absolutely horrid against is Tampa (3-10 all time).

Murray is similar against Toronto, 3-3-1 with a .926 sv%

 

[Malkinstheman]

 

[vodeni]

now that is a shocker

 

[Gurglesons]

Well Kahun being injured any longer likely tanks his value from a contract perspective.

 

[EightyOne]

NEAT
GREAT
GRAND
WONDERFUL

 

[vodeni]

NEAT
GREAT
GRAND
WONDERFUL

they are running Angello with Geno and Rust....maybe kahun is not in all that bad shape after all...

 

[Ogrezilla]

they are running Angello with Geno and Rust....maybe kahun is not in all that bad shape after all...

that seems like really good news for Kahun. I would think McCann would be there even if they expected Kahun to miss a single game.

 

[Andy99]

they are running Angello with Geno and Rust....maybe kahun is not in all that bad shape after all...

Debbie Downer alert: or, they’re not sure atm how injured because the swelling hasn’t gone down...

although there’s this...

 

[Andy99]

What a great article...I didn’t know a lot of this...

Blueger follows idol's path to Pittsburgh

 

[Tom Hanks]

Some PK charts

 

[Andy99]

Another good article that discusses the team’s underlying bad analytics recently....

Despite wins, Penguins preach need to develop ‘sound defensive game’ | TribLIVE.com

 

[Malkinstheman]

 

[JackFr]

Just gonna post these here instead of typing it out, but our recent eye test struggles are backed up by the collapse of our underlying numbers as well.

 

[MeinerEiner]

 

[KIRK]

That person's tweets belong in the cap thread, where they can be properly mocked.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Just gonna post these here instead of typing it out, but our recent eye test struggles are backed up by the collapse of our underlying numbers as well.

I've been saying this about Simon all season, but the advanced stats crowd seemed to think I was nuts because of how much Sid apparently scores with Simon on his line.

Now the advanced stats crowd is also getting on Simon, as though him producing at a 30 point pace wasn't ever going to be an issue that no one could foresee.

 

[KIRK]

I've been saying this about Simon all season, but the advanced stats crowd seemed to think I was nuts because of how much Sid apparently scores with Simon on his line.

Now the advanced stats crowd is also getting on Simon, as though him producing at a 30 point pace wasn't ever going to be an issue that no one could foresee.

Well, you know what they say . . . when you've lost the advanced stats crowd . . .

 

[Tom Hanks]

Well, you know what they say . . . when you've lost the advanced stats crowd . . .

Simon got shit on today on HF and here was Sid/Simon stats in their 11:34 together. Outscored 1-2 but results should have been better. The last stat is pretty damning and there are 6 players on the ice. Anyone saying it’s exclusively Simon’s fault is pretty crazy (it’s been insinuated quite a bit).

Corsi 62.96%
Fenwick 65.00%
Shots For 66.67%
GF 33.33%
XGF 57.89%
SCF 50.00%
HDCF 55.56%
HDGF 33.33%
SH% 10%
SV .600%

I still like him and I don’t think there is a better option with who is healthy right now. Yeah Rust obviously but then that takes away from Malkin (which I’m not opposed to right now).