GDT: This Is Not A Drill, I Repeat This Is Not A Drill !! - Let's Get Off To A Flying Start @ 17.30EST

Actually it has been 158 days but f*** me, it feels like 84 years

So, ​

praise Allah, Buddah, Jesus, Yahweh & all the Gods above!



Get ready for 56 games of slightly different hockey this year.

No western conference trips, just an Eastern Division comprising of:

Boston
Buffalo
New Jersey
New York x 2
Tossers across the State
Thugs in the Capital
And us

No trips to the great white north called Canada, lots more advertising, a squad that will travel by taxi and lots of Qtips up nostrils

In case you have forgotten who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins here is the 23 man roster and the taxi squad.



More details will be added as we get closer to puck drop.



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And before anyone says, it will be 158 days TOMORROW since we last played!

 

Locked for now, will re-open tomorrow for game day. Let's use the pre-game discussion thread for now:
Pre-Game Talk: - Penguins (and NHL) Season Opener vs. Philly (Wednesday @ 5:30PM EST - NBCSN, SN1)

 

A little more than 4hr to go baby!

 

@Jesse - link it here when you post. Let's get some people to see your work!

 

He talked about this on Dying Alive I think. Basically they've removed the D to D pass in scrimmages and are focusing on giving the D pushing out more options. The idea being our breakout got killed by the Canadiens last year because it was too scripted and having a forward to support it gives the D an option that isn't a Cody Ceci / Jack Johnson.

Hopefully it works.

 

Um...win?

 

Is that good or...?

 

anyone have a penguins lineup for tonight?

 

Happy

 

It’s a good thing. Whether it works lol it’ll be more helpful for the playoffs so we don’t get swept again but useful because in season games will be scrutinized more because we play only in division games.

 

Remember that Buffalo game last year?

 

It took Sullivan a whole lost series and four months to figure that out? Failure to change strategy against MTL was one of our biggest problems

 

No. But it is very likely:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rodrigues
Zucker-Malkin-Rust
McCann-Jankowski-Tanev
Lafferty-Blueger-Sceviour

Dumoulin-Letang
Pettersson-Marino
Matheson-Ceci
(Pettersson and Matheson swapping on occasion)

Jarry

 

Since Kapanen is not in the lineup, the new player i'm most interested in seeing is Matheson. Sounds like the Pens are high on him. In fact they're so high on him they bumped him to the 2nd pairing.

 

Opening day against Philthy?

Awesome! LGP!

 

17:30 Eastern?

24 hour time tomfoolery, have a good GDT you wankers.

 

Haven't been paying attention to camp at all so I was getting super hyped then remembered we signed Cody Ceci.

Oh well let's go Pens

 

Wow actual changes. Color me hopeful, a little.

 

LGP

 

Are we doing a “Pens Predict” this year?







... asked the reigning champ.

 

Kunitz, Crosby, Dupuis
Guentzel, Malkin, Rust
Cooke, Staal, Kennedy
Aston-Reese, Blueger, Tanev

Dumoulin, Letang
Martin, Niskanen
Matheson, Marino

Jarry
Johnson

 

We got KLS on speed dial.

Also I wish you said the backup was Vokoun.