Machinehead
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Nah it's still super concerning. Trouba is playing completely normal right now and it's weird that Laviolette would notice now and not all the other times.
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Machinehead
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I would say most of last year he was already this bad, but yeah, it was still taboo to say it.
He's been serviceable at points with the Rangers but he hasn't really been good since he was on the Jets.
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It's like they're cooking up a story to tell the fans ... "Yes he had a few rough games when he returned from injury (a little early, but you can't hold a leader like Trou Trou back), but he stuck with it (like the hero he is), and the team stuck with him (what a buncha guys), and it's just so heartwarming all around."
And thus create a cloud of impenetrable bullshit that will distract people.
Well, I hold out no hope. This team has a long-time fascination with Trouba-type defensemen.
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Dude cost us two points, bottom line. The first 4 shifts from Trouba/Miller were absolutely horrendous, beer league level against a, still, top 10 player. Penguins might have been desperate but we outplayed them.
He's a legit problem. Lavi doesn't see it either, which might be worse. Gallant didn't see it with Nemeth either until game 6 2 years ago when he finally benched him.
Maybe it's PTSD from last year, but he's got 7 games to find some NHL level form again before the margin of errors is zero. I feel bad for Jones, he deserves to stay in the lineup
Shelter Trouba with Jones. Tell him no pinching, let Jones do anything offensively.
Put Cuylle back with Wennberg and Kakko. Vesey and Goodrow with Edstrom I guess. He doesn't trust Rempe, which I get, and I've seen enough of The Brod.
This team is good and we can go far if we don't trip over our own feet with some stubbornness.
He's a legit problem. Lavi doesn't see it either, which might be worse. Gallant didn't see it with Nemeth either until game 6 2 years ago when he finally benched him.
Maybe it's PTSD from last year, but he's got 7 games to find some NHL level form again before the margin of errors is zero. I feel bad for Jones, he deserves to stay in the lineup
Shelter Trouba with Jones. Tell him no pinching, let Jones do anything offensively.
Put Cuylle back with Wennberg and Kakko. Vesey and Goodrow with Edstrom I guess. He doesn't trust Rempe, which I get, and I've seen enough of The Brod.
This team is good and we can go far if we don't trip over our own feet with some stubbornness.
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Cuylle-Wennberg-Kakko was an effective line that he broke up for no reason.
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Lavi scratched Cuylle because he needed a nap and I don't think that line has been back since
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Why is Trouba playing? If he isn't healthy enough to throw a hit he should be sitting. First goal completely on him and I laughed later when he got nutmeg'd on the Crosby goal. Miller was also getting his lunch money taken all night and every time the puck got to his stick the offense died. Idk what more Laviolette needs to see to actually switch the pairs.
Edit: Didnt watch the postgame but did see Trouba's comments essentially calling himself out and wanted to at least mention it. He stinks but I appreciate the accountability which we have sometimes not seen from the team when they play poorly.
Other than that I thought they were generally fine. The goalie "interference" calls the last 2 games have been the p***yfication of sports. Goalie barely touched on both. We cruise to a win if that goal counts. And I hate to be a blame the refs guy, but to say theres a pattern of the Pens getting every review to go there way and the Rangers getting none, is an understatement. It's comical at this point.
Edit: Didnt watch the postgame but did see Trouba's comments essentially calling himself out and wanted to at least mention it. He stinks but I appreciate the accountability which we have sometimes not seen from the team when they play poorly.
Other than that I thought they were generally fine. The goalie "interference" calls the last 2 games have been the p***yfication of sports. Goalie barely touched on both. We cruise to a win if that goal counts. And I hate to be a blame the refs guy, but to say theres a pattern of the Pens getting every review to go there way and the Rangers getting none, is an understatement. It's comical at this point.
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Machinehead
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I love how he tinkers with shit for no reason but if it's not good, they're together by blood oath.
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I wanted to make comments about the refs and the non-goal but the Trouba/Miller pair was so egregious it really didn't matter what the refs had done. They were gonna F something up no matter what
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I don’t understand why Cuylle Wennberg Kakko isn’t in stone. That line was is fantastic. I don’t get it.
If we’d have gotten this kakko all year he’d be flirting with 20 goals and 40 pts again easily while being a premier defensive forward and possession monster. Wennberg is the perfect center for him.
Trouba should Charlie Conway himself into the coaches office and telll him to play Miller and Schneider together. He’s got his money and his letter he doesn’t need that ice time. Take the sheltered 3rd pair mins with jones and first pk mins with lindgren and raise the Cup have your picture taken with the greats
If we’d have gotten this kakko all year he’d be flirting with 20 goals and 40 pts again easily while being a premier defensive forward and possession monster. Wennberg is the perfect center for him.
Trouba should Charlie Conway himself into the coaches office and telll him to play Miller and Schneider together. He’s got his money and his letter he doesn’t need that ice time. Take the sheltered 3rd pair mins with jones and first pk mins with lindgren and raise the Cup have your picture taken with the greats
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Another thing I noticed. The Rangers beat Crosby in 2022 when they started to get physical with him. Igor had the Rangers biggest hit on him last night. Enough said.
I don’t understand why they don’t send guys to Hartford on conditioning stints anymore when returning from injury. Seems like something that used to be routine and doesn’t happen anymore. It takes time to come back to speed after being out for an extended period. Should be able to do it at a lower level for a game or two to ramp up and not impact the NHL team.
It’s debatable whether Trouba is a top 6 defenseman on this team when fully healthy, but he’s definitely not in his current state.
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Let's not feed into the injury excuse they're already shilling. Trouba always sucks.
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He's the #8 defenseman on this team.
Our coaching staff plays him like a #2-#3. That's the problem.
MOVE ON. It's time. He can't move. His lack of mobility costs us every game... Miraculously, it has somehow gotten worse. I tuned out the game after the 1st shift. Put him on the 3rd pair or claim a mysterious 're-injury'.
Our coaching staff plays him like a #2-#3. That's the problem.
MOVE ON. It's time. He can't move. His lack of mobility costs us every game... Miraculously, it has somehow gotten worse. I tuned out the game after the 1st shift. Put him on the 3rd pair or claim a mysterious 're-injury'.
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"We're going for a rest rotation"
LINDREN AND TROUBA ARE BACK ON THE ICE.
LINDREN AND TROUBA ARE BACK ON THE ICE.
i like lav as a coach but his recent lineup decisions have been horrible.
I have no clue what cuylle did to get demoted, or why he is t back in.
I have no clue why miller schneider was broken up.
I get that trouba goes back in when healthy, but just put him with jones.
It is painfully obvious these two moves.
Machinehead
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Yeah but the whole postmortem on how bad he was from coach and player is even more frustrating because this wasn't abnormal.
He's had many bad games this year where the narrative was what a warrior he was.
Needs to try to beef up that Goodrow centric checking line so he can justify overplaying Barclay.
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Well, I guess I can't argue that it's not a new low this year, it definitely is.
But he has been subjectively "bad at defense," for years now.
Didn’t like “The Trouble with Trouba’s” title suggestion?
Guessing you’re more of a Star Wars fan than a Star Trek fanboy?
Respect
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I also don't really want to hear from the coach about if a certain player wasn't on his game. You are the coach, you have identified a problem, what did you do about it? Or what are you going to do about it in the future? I know Lavy isn't going to go Tortorella and sit Trouba, but if he's not up to speed after an injury, then ease him in. Shelter him. Do something about it.
Crosby was destroying Miller/Trouba and Vinny's line. So Lav did something. He moved Mika's line up and kept Trouba's pair on Crosby. It's hard to justify Lav thinking they are our best shutdown pair especially when it wasn't Miller's night either. Only other thing I can think of is that they don't want Fox concentrating on playing defense on his whole shift which could happen if he's always out against the Crosbys of the world.
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