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Penguins *******!

I can't fault Mario for trying the coach/GM shake-up - it's just not working with who they got to replace Bylsma - without Mario there's no Penguins, no Consol Energy Center, no future.

they brought in Downie to go after the guys that go after the stars - but they don't even play him on their lines - how does that help?
 
The Pens are a rudderless ship. There seems to be no system, no leadership, no accountability. This team needs an overhaul from the front offices down. I wouldn't make any player untouchable, Crosby and Malkin included. For all the skill this team has, they sure don't seem hungry. Give me what the Rangers have - a veritable bunch of home grown no names (mostly) that are big, fast and want to win. Beats the hell out of slop hockey the Pens play every night.
 
madinsomniac said:
.. Bennet is a different case. He is a skill guy being asked to focus on a checking line role. he has no finishers playing with him, unless downie gets time with him... When he was playing with sutter (who is as close to a finisher as he has played with save his 3 or 4 games with malkin, when he put up half his points), Sutter flubbed dozens of prime chances and somehow Bennett took the blame for the lack of production... is just another case of a team thinking all players are interchangeable in roles and playing a guy counter to his strengths
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Like I said, put him on the top line, promise him 5 games. At least until Hornqvist gets back. Then he should have every opportunity to show his potential. It's not like the top line is producing now.
 
Bennett isn't that impressive. He has a good game here and there, but rarely anything to write home about. Maybe I am missing something, but there is nothing about him that makes me think he is ever going to be more than he is right now.
 
Sarge said:
Bennett isn't that impressive. He has a good game here and there, but rarely anything to write home about. Maybe I am missing something, but there is nothing about him that makes me think he is ever going to be more than he is right now.
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Seems as though the coaching staff feels the same way.
 
ha ha

they ARE listening to me

Downie in the top 6,

Kunitz dropped from Sid's line

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After giving up a shorty Pens are up 2-1 - Winnik gets his 1st as a Pen.

3rd p starting - can they hold it?
 
Plan the parade route, they won!
 
I'm afraid the Blues will clobber them tonight

The #Pens have recalled Derrick Pouliot and re-assigned Andrew Ebbett to the @WBSPenguins:

Johnston says the #Pens hope Malkin and Hornqvist will be ready by the weekend.
 
And Bortuzzo scores against the Pens. LOL.
 
and Goc


back to back ex-Pens

oh the humanity
 
and Cole and Lapierre still have yet to do much of anything since coming here. The Blues robbed us twice. Just unnecessary moves.
 
ugh......This team has what 9 games left to get it's **** in order.
 
Funny but sad to see all the ex penguin playing well, not just.this game, and all the current pens playing so poorly.

Just a bad year.
 
Erhoff is a China Doll. He gets hit and leaves the game. Repeatedly. He may be a good defenseman, but he is out of the line-up every three games or so it seems.

Well, on the bright side, we got a point tonight. Even though, we game up a two-goal lead at home. We need all the points we can get.
 
Steel G said:
And Lovejoy gets schooled in OT.
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Lovejoy loses the puck in the corner, Lovejoys man goes right to the net and scores the winning goal in OT

.. good thing he has upside... oh wait.
 
hook said:
Funny but sad to see all the ex penguin playing well, not just.this game, and all the current pens playing so poorly.

Just a bad year.
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I think it speaks to a bigger problem in Pittsburgh. Not sure what that problem is, but man it is like an anchor around the neck of this hockey team. Just not playing well at all. Something is wrong, the dysfunction is evident.
 
Sarge said:
I think it speaks to a bigger problem in Pittsburgh. Not sure what that problem is, but man it is like an anchor around the neck of this hockey team. Just not playing well at all. Something is wrong, the dysfunction is evident.
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maybe it's too many vets and not enough young fire? I realize they brought Pouliot back up, but a lot of the guys they brought in are older and don't have the fire that some of the younger guys may have had. The team is not old or soft, but they are missing a certain spark that they showed earlier in the season. Is it a coincidence that the team started going south when the moves were made? Not real sure either where the problem is, but no lead is safe and a comeback in the 3rd is non-existent.
 
oh that hometown media


@JoshYohe_Trib - Johnston said he "overplayed" Kunitz tonight, which led to fatigue.

@Mackey_Trib - Ben Lovejoy was fantastic tonight, BTW. Will be tweeting out quotes. "That overtime goal was my fault. ... I can’t let that happen."

Fantastic? that's stretching it there, Jason.

@Mackey_Trib -- in a postgame interview setting. Honest. Should have specified.

https://twitter.com/Mackey_Trib?ori...ge=29&tw_i=580550548497235968&tw_p=tweetembed


Lovejoy gives great post-game interviews - He's a media darling!
 
And yet my Wild keep on winning. Took the Islanders in OT. Dubnyk is playing out of his mind and has single handedly saved the Wild's season. Wild coming off a win in Toronto the previous night had the Islanders come hard and often in the first period. Any other body in net, the wild would have been down 5 - 0, instead it ended scoreless. Regulation and OT ended in a 1 - 1 tie, the Wild's lone goal on a typical Parise tap in of his own rebound. He also scored the OT winner.

Pens are such a disappointment, the Wild - not so much.

What's wrong with the Pens? More like what's right in Minnesota, The State of Hockey...
 
I know nothing much about the Wild except some of their stars and the former Pens ex-Assistant Coach now HC. Glad they are rolling. The Pens are playing like their namesake, flightless. Maybe Malkin and Horny will provide the missing ingredients we keep hearing about. They need something to light a fire.
 
HC Mike Yeo has put out a team that plays with speed, skill and solid defense. They're fun to watch in respect to seeing some fancy pass work, the type you'd expect the Pens to deploy. The difference here is that there are positive results from those plays. Not a whole lot of size but there are some bodies to take up the physical alterations. The Penalty kill is lights out and this team is winning it's road games, 10 straight at this point. We're missing Matt Cooke for sure but the guys have stepped up and made sure we haven't missed a beat.

GM Chuck Fletcher is also from the Pens organization so some similarity in roster and set-up exists. His pick-up of Devan Dubnyk was the best move of any team prior to the trade deadline. Dub is 24 - 6 - 1 starting all 32 games since joining the Wild.

Besides the skill players, which there are plenty, the play of the young defense man, Matt Dumba has been a pleasant surprise. All the fancy passing aside, the Wild play a tight defensive game giving up the least amount of shots (average) in the league. Offensive production comes from all four lines on a nightly basis. Nice depth.

I hope the Pens can rebound, but for now I'm taking a walk on the Wild Side.
 
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