WBS Penguins 2015-16 season discussion

[Zen Arcade]

Very lucky, but good to see Kap driving the net. Has anyone been watching the games? Has he been more involved during play this go around?

He's been fairly involved, he's made some nice plays with Megna and Archibald/Kuhnhackl. Rust will probably take Archibald's spot on that line when he gets back. He had really nice look on the power play off of a nice pass by Goers of all people, got a hard wrister on net that Gudlevskis struggled with, Dea had the rebound and a wide open net but he fanned on it. He made a nice saucer pass to Parent who was pinching in, but the shot got blocked.

As a whole, Syracuse seems to be having a hard time dealing with WBS' speed. Their defense is big, but not particularly mobile. WBS is forechecking hard and causing their breakout to fail. In a familiar story, the Crunch are frustrated that their plays aren't working, so they're trying too hard to assert themselves physically and taking stupid penalties in the process. They gave WBS 7 power plays, and 3 of them were the result of offensive zone penalties, one of the other ones was Koekkoek running over Archibald 30 feet from the puck in the neutral zone. They pulled Gudlevskis for an offensive zone faceoff with a little over 4 minutes left and Dalton Smith promptly made a beeline for the net and knocked over Murray to kill any tiny chance of a comeback they might've had.

There was also an ongoing battle between Mike Angelidis (their captain) and Farnham. I'm not sure what Farnham did or said to him, but Angelidis was going absolutely ballistic going after him, especially late in the game.

p.s. turn on closed captions for the highlight video. "Ronda Rowdy." "Ashton goes for the Rabbi"

 

[cygnus47]

Looks like Sundqvist is on his way over. Great news!!

Awesome. Hope he makes as big an impact as we think he might.

 

[Burgs]

who's that rowney character?

Carter Rowney, undrafted former college (North Dakota) forward. Some years ago the Penguins invited him to a prospect camp. He was brought back for some more camps and eventually got a contract with WBS. Worked his way up from being a Wheeling call-up to centering the 3rd line with Kühnhackl and Uher on the wings. Good size and two-way play. I don't think he has NHL upside as he's almost 26 already but that line has been great down the stretch and now into the playoffs.

 

[Jacob]

Forgot about Rust & Drazenovic. Great to see Sundqvist coming over too. The team is stacked.

 

[iFishyHD]

Does that mean Lindo is out from the org. as a whole?

 

[plaidchuck]

We are officially the 2010 capitals, bragging about our amazing ahl team.

 

[wej20]

Does that mean Lindo is out from the org. as a whole?

No, I imagine they cut him because WBS is already crowded. Hopefully it spurs him on to earn an ELC.

 

[Asuna]

We are officially the 2010 capitals, bragging about our amazing ahl team.

It's the only thing we can brag about with this organization.

 

[iFishyHD]

No, I imagine they cut him because WBS is already crowded. Hopefully it spurs him on to earn an ELC.

Ah ok. Thanks.

 

[DegenX]

Now it's official ...

 

[Jacob]

We are officially the 2010 capitals, bragging about our amazing ahl team.

The difference is that the Bears are privately owned and end up signing a lot of career AHLers to win, the baby Pens are heavily laden with prospects.

 

[wej20]

The difference is that the Bears are privately owned and end up signing a lot of career AHLers to win, the baby Pens are heavily laden with prospects.

Kostopolous and Ebbett are good AHLers but they're not Alexandre Giroux and Keith Aucoin.

 

[Gallatin]

Listening to a reasonable and somewhat insightfull Rossi interview on the Fan'site Kyngerski show...

Feel like I am in the Twilight Zone.

 

[plaidchuck]

The difference is that the Bears are privately owned and end up signing a lot of career AHLers to win, the baby Pens are heavily laden with prospects.

Ah so leonsis doesn't own them? Interesting.

 

[Jacob]

So what do the lines & pairs look like if they get to 100% health?

 

[Gallatin]

So what do the lines & pairs look like if they get to 100% health?

Through much of the season the top 4 D pairs were Chorney-Dumoulin and Pouliot-Harrington.

Hard to predict lines with KK & Sundqvist being added to an already affective forward line-up.

 

[Asuna]

So what do the lines & pairs look like if they get to 100% health?

Does it matter....they're stacked bro!

 

[GreatjonUmber]

0:25 Syvert hooking his own teammate

 

[IcedCapp]

maybe it's just the uniforms, but Megna looks thicker to me

 

[Gallatin]

maybe it's just the uniforms, but Megna looks thicker to me

I noticed the same thing. He's really picked up his all-around game this year at WBS, and was a I believe 12th in the League in goal scoring.

Hoping he can be one of our solutions in the bottom 6 next year.

 

[#1GuinFan]

0:25 Syvert hooking his own teammate

Haha, I wondered that at first too, but when I rewatched it he was actually trying to push him with his stick. in doing so though Syvret took himself out of the play for the rebound which allowed the crunch a second scoring chance.

 

[Asuna]

Watching the Wild-Blues game, I realized that WBS has had some pretty damn good coaches come through there.

Hynes, Bylsma, Richards, Yeo, Therrien.

Edit - Reirden too, but idk if he counts

 

[Jacob]

Also Craig Patrick's brother Tad or whatever.

 

[Penguinator]

Nice goal by KK, looked like garbled **** mixed with grace! (yeah i dunno how to describe it...). Made me lol for whatever reason.

 

[cygnus47]

That Rowney re-direct is one play that we've never really used on the PP that we really should. Good way to make up for all the lefties (that we've now removed haha).