Series Thread: Pens vs Rangers round 2

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Instead of calling him Scud I should call him "Dud".

 

[element1286]

Pens structure falling apart. Playing the trades rushes up and down the ice game.

 

[Darkstone42]

Horrible defense, oh Scud

That one was on Niskanen. He lost his gap and hung Scuderi out to dry.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Pens are reverting to the way they played against the Blue Jackets, giving up breakaways & 3 on 1 rushes

 

[element1286]

That one was on Niskanen. He lost his gap and hung Scuderi out to dry.

Unfortunately Scuds only knows how the play defense on his stomach, eventhough Vitale had the backside Scuds went to the ice and gave Hagelin tons of room.

Definitely on Niskanen though with the bad read.

 

[element1286]

So Orpik is hurt again?

 

[Darkstone42]

Looks that way.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

That one was on Niskanen. He lost his gap and hung Scuderi out to dry.

True, Nisky should've played that better but Scuderi was there to make a play and all he did was fall down.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Almost gave up a 4 on 2 there.

 

[element1286]

Almost gave up a 4 on 2 there.

Luckily the Rangers are incompetent at entering the zone.

 

[element1286]

So did they rush Brooks back? That didn't look bad at all.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Now we give up a 2 on 1

 

[element1286]

Defense is a disaster. Constantly pinching and getting caught.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

We're going to get scored on right here, I feel it

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Sutter!

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Bad 2nd period but we lucked out with that shorty.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

New strategy against the Rangers should be to take penalties. Our biggest advantage against the Rangers has been on their power plays.

 

[element1286]

Gibbons is no joke on that pk, great job by Sutter to follow the play too. Terrible Rags defense.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Gibbons is no joke on that pk, great job by Sutter to follow the play too. Terrible Rags defense.

Give credit to Tang for making that happen too!

 

[Darkstone42]

Hopefully we can find some way to keep Scuderi off the ice as much as possible in the third, and Danny makes the intermission adjustment to get back to the game we were playing in the first period.

I wouldn't necessarily call that a bad second for us, as we did possess the puck quite a bit, especially after the Rangers scored their goal, but we played with fire and need to simplify the game.