Hobodrifter
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He seems a bit soft. Not saying I wanna see him hurt people, but if he isn't scoring, ever, than maybe put the body to the D on the other team, something tangible beside killing penalties.
I don't think Kuhn is good enough at any aspect of the game to justify a roster spot. We can and should do much better than Kuhn for our 4th line. Lots of talk is brought up about Sprong's inability to play a two-way game, and that keeps him out of a regular spot. The same should be true for Kuhn, but on the opposite end of the spectrum. He's nowhere near as good defensively or on the PK as he needs to be to make up for the complete blackhole of offensive pressure/production and transition game that he brings (and in turn adversely affects his line). He's a guy whose job is to get pelted with pucks. Sure, it keeps other guys from being pelted with pucks regularly, but is that worth sacrificing 1/3 of our 4th line and handicapping our depth at ES for? I don't think so.
Yeah, there was a time where he was thought of as a potential top-9 guy who could chip in some points while playing a two-way game. Didn't he have some kinda knee injury or something in junior that derailed his entire season? I think he was playing/producing well before that, maybe he just never got it all back together after that and adjusted his game to do what he had to do in order to make an NHL team. /shrugKuhnhackl being so offensively inept is such a mystery to me. The guy had a legit scorers touch in junior, so while even if that didn't fully translate to the NHL level as a scorer because he lacked other attributes, you'd think he'd be the type who could still score in the 10 goal range with his shot (similar to what guys like Brett Connolly or a younger Eric Fehr could do).
I totally forgot about that until you just brought it up again. It’s sad how one goal could have changed the outcome of the entire series and this awful timeline we're stuck in now.
Awful timeline where we're off the back of being repeat SC champions and have the longest play-off appearance streak in the NHL?
I mean, I know the last few months didn't go quite as planned, but it's still a pretty good timeline...
He probably means the awful timeline we literally are in...where threads eschewing Kunitz's ability to be there, where Kuhnackl's are praised, Kessel's are traded, Sullivans are passing their Best By dates, titles of rooting for Vegas abound, where 100 pages a week of potentially stupid trades and idiotic lineups are posted all exist.
It is an awful timeline around here.
Surely the offseason BS would be less if the Pens weren't out. Right?
Yeah, yeaaaah I definitely agree. I was mostly being hyperbolic. But I just meant these past few weeks since we’ve gotten eliminated and watched Washington beat up a Tampa team who “neither Washington or Pitt would hve beaten.”Awful timeline where we're off the back of being repeat SC champions and have the longest play-off appearance streak in the NHL?
I mean, I know the last few months didn't go quite as planned, but it's still a pretty good timeline...
Hey! This isn't Halloween or April Fool's day man!I heard JR is putting together a monster 8 year offer for kuhn, wants to get him locked up as long as possible to keep sully happy. E4
Kuhnhackl being so offensively inept is such a mystery to me. The guy had a legit scorers touch in junior, so while even if that didn't fully translate to the NHL level as a scorer because he lacked other attributes, you'd think he'd be the type who could still score in the 10 goal range with his shot (similar to what guys like Brett Connolly or a younger Eric Fehr could do).
Yeah but wasn't Sprong somewhat held back because of his contract? Eligibility?If Sullivan has any say then yes, he will be back.
Sit guys like Sprong for guys like Kuhnhackl.