Tell me how you can boil down the rightness or wrongness of an organization's decisions to a net positive/negative, outside of actual results. How do you weight opinion?
Isn't that pretty much exactly what we did with Cooke?
We're talking about the same Bruins who sat Dougie Hamilton in the playoffs, and only "made time for" Bartkowski and Krug after injuries hit their blueline, right?
The same Pens who are incorporating Bennett onto the 2nd or 3rd line and likely putting Bortuzzo on the 3rd pairing, with Despres' fate yet TBD?
Oh, is that what the data in this thread suggests?
Betting on the field against one team. Bold.
You're delusional, man. This is a team that is capable of fielding "the two best players in the world" for ~67% of a game. If they're as good at coaching and GM as you keep vomiting relentlessly, then I'm pretty sure they should be capable of winning more than 1 cup in their tenure. Not doing so would be a complete and utter failure.
Re: Cooke - probably the only veteran they had who was 1) good in his role, 2) great in the playoffs in his role, 3) should have been brought back.
I would much rather have:
Kunitz - Crosby - Bennett
Jokinen - Malkin - Neal
Cooke - Sutter - Dags
something-something-something
That actually is balanced and makes sense!
And I would much rather move Niskanen, who hasn't been good on the left side or in a bottom-6 role since being with the Penguins.
Re: young players. I don't think you actually read what I said. We're talking about replacing 4th liners who have little-to-no value with younger players. Apparently the only young players you think are capable or worthy of stepping in are top-end draft picks. The Penguins letting go of Glass and Adams would actually be much less risky than what the Bruins are doing.
But I do like how you'll support the Penguins and the basis of your support is saying that the Bruins had to let those kids play in the playoffs due to injury.
Yep.
And those kids stepped up and performed over a very small sample. And the Bruins said, "WE HAVE TO DO THIS."
You know what the Penguins did? They put Bennett on the 2nd line last year. They saw he performed. How did they react?
They gave a prospect away for an out-of-gas Brenden Morrow. They traded for Iginla. They kept trading for players until they had moved Bennett to the press box completely. Now they have him on the 3rd line when he's the most complete, well-rounded top-6 winger on the team.
By the way, since you're God's gift to hockey minds, what's cheaper/easier to fill? A well-rounded top-6 player or a 3rd liner?
It's almost as if letting Pascal Dupuis go and sliding Beau Bennett into the top-6 would have given the Penguins enough money to put together a proper bottom-6.
Not in RRP land, where results are all that matter.
Okay, RRP, let's talk about results. If you're going to be beholden to them, then you're a hypocrite. The Penguins had the best record in hockey last year. They outplayed the Bruins completely in the regular season. And when the playoffs came around, they crumbled.
They dominated the Islanders in the regular season, too, and how close did they come to an embarrassing exit at the hands of a bunch of kids and some "should have been out of the NHL a few years ago"?
If results are all that matter, stop hiding behind the empty meaninglessness of the regular season.
You know who cares about regular season records? People who don't win anything. The results that matter in sports are playoff results. What's your playoff record. How many championships do they win.
You want to judge the Penguins on results, then do it honestly. Don't hide behind stats and records no one cares about.