Comedy IRONy out of Pittsburgh

[BGDave]

57	Dante Fabbro	D	46	2	10	12	22	7	1998-06-20	25	Coquitlam, BC	6.00	189
8	Cody Glass	C	31	2	4	6	18	-15	1999-04-01	24	Winnipeg, MAN	6.03	206
24	Spencer Stastney	D	9	1	0	1	4	6	2000-01-04	23	Woodbridge, IL	6.00	184
11	Samuel Fagemo	L	4	1	0	1	0	0	2000-03-14	23	Goteborg, Sweden	6.00	200
18	Liam Foudy	C	12	0	3	3	2	-2	2000-02-04	23	Scarborough, ONT	6.02	188
7	Marc Del Gaizo	D	5	0	3	3	2	2	1999-10-11	23	Basking Ridge, NJ	5.11	188
70	Egor Afanasyev	L	2	0	0	0	0	-1	2001-01-23	22	Tver, Russia	6.04	211
75	Juuso Parssinen	C	44	8	4	12	12	-6	2001-02-01	22	Hameenlinna, Finland	6.03	212
26	Philip Tomasino	C	41	7	13	20	25	-6	2001-07-28	22	Mississauga, ONT	6.00	179
30	Yaroslav Askarov	G	2	0	0	0	0	0	2002-06-16	21	Omsk, Russia	6.03	178
77	Luke Evangelista	R	57	11	15	26	18	-3	2002-02-21	21	Toronto, ONT	6.00	183

Thought I had you beat, but maybe not. In our defense, 2 of the top point producers (Parssinen and Tomasino) are in the AHL currently.

 

[dare2be]

I'm surprised there are that many players under 25.

 

[thedddd]

57	Dante Fabbro	D	46	2	10	12	22	7	1998-06-20	25	Coquitlam, BC	6.00	189
8	Cody Glass	C	31	2	4	6	18	-15	1999-04-01	24	Winnipeg, MAN	6.03	206
24	Spencer Stastney	D	9	1	0	1	4	6	2000-01-04	23	Woodbridge, IL	6.00	184
11	Samuel Fagemo	L	4	1	0	1	0	0	2000-03-14	23	Goteborg, Sweden	6.00	200
18	Liam Foudy	C	12	0	3	3	2	-2	2000-02-04	23	Scarborough, ONT	6.02	188
7	Marc Del Gaizo	D	5	0	3	3	2	2	1999-10-11	23	Basking Ridge, NJ	5.11	188
70	Egor Afanasyev	L	2	0	0	0	0	-1	2001-01-23	22	Tver, Russia	6.04	211
75	Juuso Parssinen	C	44	8	4	12	12	-6	2001-02-01	22	Hameenlinna, Finland	6.03	212
26	Philip Tomasino	C	41	7	13	20	25	-6	2001-07-28	22	Mississauga, ONT	6.00	179
30	Yaroslav Askarov	G	2	0	0	0	0	0	2002-06-16	21	Omsk, Russia	6.03	178
77	Luke Evangelista	R	57	11	15	26	18	-3	2002-02-21	21	Toronto, ONT	6.00	183

Thought I had you beat, but maybe not. In our defense, 2 of the top point producers (Parssinen and Tomasino) are in the AHL currently.

Evangelista alone makes the Preds better at younger talent.
Totally forgot about Cody Glass.....He is essentially the "hey at least I am not Nolan Patrick" of that 2017 draft.

 

[BGDave]

Evangelista alone makes the Preds better at younger talent.
Totally forgot about Cody Glass.....He is essentially the "hey at least I am not Nolan Patrick" of that 2017 draft.

Was there ever a bigger nothingburger then Ryan Ellis to the Flyers for Nolan Patrick (and PhilippeMyers) who then got sent to Vegas for Glass?

I mean, NHL calibre players who did basically zero for their new teams?

 

[thedddd]

Was there ever a bigger nothingburger then Ryan Ellis to the Flyers for Nolan Patrick (and PhilippeMyers) who then got sent to Vegas for Glass?

I mean, NHL calibre players who did basically zero for their new teams?

LOL...so true. Seems Ellis was more production in 5 games vs anyone else.

Speaking of nothingburgers..... The 2017 draft, I feel it is far enough gone that anyone you picked could have made it to the NHL by now for any team.

 

[puckhead]

Speaking of nothingburgers..... The 2017 draft, I feel it is far enough gone that anyone you picked could have made it to the NHL by now for any team.

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[dare2be]

LOL...so true. Seems Ellis was more production in 5 games vs anyone else.

Speaking of nothingburgers..... The 2017 draft, I feel it is far enough gone that anyone you picked could have made it to the NHL by now for any team.

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Who?

 

[thedddd]

Curiosity got me and using the 2017 as the most recent and going back to 1970.
Here are the only other examples outside that 2017 Penguins draft.

Capitals 2017
Canadians 2008
Canucks 2007
Coyotes 2003
Oilers 1990

And yes two teams had a whole draft where combined the whole draft class played 1 game.

2010 Canucks
2008 Penguins

 

[thedddd]

Who?

Sadly you can say that about most of the Penguin drafts in the mid 90's and from 2007 on.

 

[dash]

Sadly you can say that about most of the Penguin drafts in the mid 90's and from 2007 on.

Pittsburgh model my ass

 

[BGDave]

LOL...so true. Seems Ellis was more production in 5 games vs anyone else.

Speaking of nothingburgers..... The 2017 draft, I feel it is far enough gone that anyone you picked could have made it to the NHL by now for any team.

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For once ESPN wasn't completely wrong:

Pittsburgh Penguins: D​

Organizational assessment: I really don't see much materializing from this Penguins draft class. Clayton Phillips has promise, so I have time for him, but a lot of the players they picked don't move the needle for me, with a pick like Zachary Lauzon at 51 being puzzling given his skill set.

First-round pick: N/A

Notable Day 2 picks: I don't see Zach Lauzon as having much offensive upside. He competes and is physical, but I don't see real NHL skills in his game. Phillips' talent level stood out to me when I saw him play. He's a very good skater, with decent hands and quality vision moving the puck. He's small, and while he can make stops due to his feet closing gaps, he needs time to round out his game so he has the puck more often.

2017 Draft Class: Pittsburgh Penguins​

ROUND/PICK	NAME	POS	TEAM
2/51	Zachary Lauzon	D	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
3/93	Clayton Phillips	D	Fargo (USHL)
5/152	Jan Drozg	LW	Leksands Jr. (Allsvenskan)
5/155	Linus Olund	C	Brynas (SuperElit)
6/186	Antti Palojarvi	D	Lukko Jr. (Liiga Jr.)
7/217	William Reilly	D	RPI (ECAC)

 

[thedddd]

Yep this is exactly like watching Pittsburgh sports in recent years.


Peaked years ago, too much meth and now just old and painful.

 

[sbb122]

Posting for the sheer absurdity that 99 got there in 608 games.

 

[dash]

Posting for the sheer absurdity that 99 got there in 608 games.

Yeah, but 700 of those points were a result of cherry picking

 

[thedddd]

Yeah, but 700 of those points were a result of cherry picking

At least he didn’t shoot too much.

 

[dash]

At least he didn’t shoot too much.

lol - 894 times it was a good shot.

 

[dash]

You could take away all of Wayne's 894 goals and he still leads in most points as a result of 1963 assists.

 

[thedddd]

Tyler Myers and Puljujarvi’s penalties were both because they just happen to be a lot larger than the players they committed the penalty against.

 

[thedddd]

Mike Rupp loves saying Puusi every time Puustinen is on the ice.

 

[thedddd]

Malkin doing stupid Malkin things.