scoutyjones2
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And the schedulers help give the Pens 2 wins by having them play teams on back to back nights! Thanx!
This team blows
This team blows
And the schedulers help give the Pens 2 wins by having them play teams on back to back nights! Thanx!
This team blows
How long will Skid go scoreless to start the season?
And don't give me this BS about playing back to back...
Pretty crazy that Geno was goal less for 18 consecutive games before the OTT game.
I don't put much stock in taking statistics from the previous season/playoffs, and wrapping it into this one. I mean, Scuderi and Lovejoy were skating as the second pair of defensemen for the last 8-10 games of the season and the playoffs. It's a wonder they managed to score any goals.
I've said it a bunch of times, but I think patience is what's needed right now. I'm not excusing the lack of goal-scoring, but I think the familiarity on all four lines is going to take some time. At least they're not giving up a ton of goals while this drought of scoring continues, even if that's mostly credited to Fleury.
"But I just remember two years ago, when Brooks Orpik left the Penguins and he went to Washington, one of the things he said was it had stopped being fun playing there," Friedman said.
"And I just remember he said that, and I asked a couple of his teammates about it. They wouldn't go on the record and they hemmed and hawed a bit, but they said, 'He's not wrong.'"
Friedman believes much of that came from a "paranoid" Penguins organization that currently has their sights set both on another Cup run and a potential sale of the franchise.
I agree, assuming they don't fall off a cliff a la the Blue Jackets this year.
The team has such roster turnover year after year, and the coaching has been average at best, I'm getting a bit worried, but willing to give them time to gel.
Read this article today, don't know how reliable the info, but it was interesting, and very specific. They look like a team that has been playing tight since them middle of last year.
Pittsburgh Penguins: 'Paranoid' Ownership Causing Sidney Crosby To Struggle, Per Report
Will the Penguins continue to suffer from the lack of secondary scoring that plagued them in recent years and, even with Daniel Sprong's rapid development, remain unable to roll lines against the league's best teams, especially if Malkin, Crosby and Kessel continue on together?
^ Yeah I find that BS that it wasn't fun anymore. Maybe that was Orpik just talking as one reason why he left, not fun for him.
Anyway: The Inside Scoop: Dupuis Practices
Positive news curious to see what will happen with his return, who sits? I HOPE it is not Sprong.
Also I would like to see a swap of Hornqvist with Crosby, then Kessel with Malkin. Hornqvist and Crosby already played well together and I have feeling Kessel and Malkin will gel pretty easily.