Penguins/NHL
The good under Mike Sullivan has been the Penguins’ ability to come back in hockey games.
What has the Penguins not getting two points out of hockey games they feel they should probably be winning, is having to chase too many hockey games.
That continued in Tuesday night’s 3-2 shootout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Penguins fell behind 1-0 with a d-zone breakdown and then 2-0 on a fluky Hurricanes goal.
Under Sullivan the Penguins are 5-6-3, collecting 13 out of a possible 28 points. In those 14 games the opposition has scored the first goal in 10 of the 14. That just can’t continue for a team that doesn’t score enough 5 v 5.
Falling behind has been the Penguins Achilles heel under Sullivan and it’s turning games where the Penguins might be carrying the play into 50-50 games.
In all five wins under Sullivan the Penguins have scored a power play goal in all of them, including multiple power play goals in three of the five wins.
In the six regulation losses the Penguins have scored 0 power play goals in five of them.
There continues to be a major reliance on the power play because of the Penguins struggles to score 5-on-5. Goals for 5-on-5 the Penguins are 27th in the NHL with 58.
The improved possession numbers are nice but the results are still not where they should or need to be.
Latest Buzz out of 3-2 loss to Hurricanes
– The Penguins a team built for 3-on-3, now have a 4-6 overtime record.
– Carolina the NHL’s third youngest team and in a rebuild, moved a point behind the Penguins in the standings. With the shaky goaltending they have received this season, Carolina has to be ecstatic to be where they are in the wildcard hunt.
– Jeff Skinner who the Penguins looked into as a trade target in June, netted the game winning overtime goal and has 16 goals on the season in a bounce back year.
– The Porter – Cullen – Fehr line has been used as the Penguins third line the last couple games. All three players had over 10:00 of ice time at even strength.
– Phil Kessel who has 12 goals and 24 points in 42 games, has just 5 even strength points over his last 18 games.
Rumors is that pens are trying to get Kessel’s favorite Hot dog guy from Toronto in order to jump start his season .Apparently GMJR is still not sure about the move due to NPL might take over that department once toronto guy comes to the states
His production this year has been far better than Marty St. Louis.
This is the same fuck awful joke you have been telling for like 3 years. Fuck off already you fucking loser
New website! Neglectedpittsburghsports.com
Pens have ugly jerseys, I hate vegas gold. Only solution I can think of is to blow the roster up.
So know instant buzz on bonino out long term? Hack
Depaoli is still doing investigative reporting on the Farnham departure – the move the turned the season around for the worse.
HAHAHAHAHAHA nice
hey stan do you know whats the diffrence between calgarys bennett and pens bennett ? One is a Canadian rising star while the other is an American failing Fraud
You’re not Canadian… go suck on your fleur de lis douchebag
I’m not sure anyone can trust you. You thought McDavid was with the Canucks, and Galchenyuk was Russian. There’s no reason to listen to you.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Comment by OU812 ignored. Unignore this user
Farnham 7 goals
Farnham 4 game suspension
Three days ago, Yoda thought losing Farnham was where the season took a wrong turn. We were good until we lost Farnham.
Unfortunately too many are saying just that. All of a sudden Farnham, who couldnt put a beach ball in the ocean during his time in the A either is the key piece that has lead to the teams shit year. Unreal.
Maybe because the pens organization is fucked, starting with ownership. Blow the whole thing up.
So if ownership is the problem how would we solve it by blowing the roster up?
Yep – that’s his solution. Blow up the roster and management and let ownership hire new people – even though they’re the problem. Between that logic, Ben’s “questionable” TD-INT ratio, and assertions that Peyton Manning is still a top 5 QB, it’s enough to make your head spin.
10th place. they suck. blow it up. who cares.
Imagine where they’d be if only they had Farnham.
They are like 7 points out of second or something stupid like that…
okay pens payroll boy. spinning the company theme. the bottom 6 sucks.
Yogurt – explain to everyone again why the Penguins pay me to shit all over their captain and the face of their franchise. And piss all over their overpaid french canadian defenseman that doesn’t nothing but collect a paycheck while drooling on himself in the press box for a 1/3 of the season. Go ahead. Educate people.
Farnham! Yogurt bashes Fleury, and massages Farnham’s balls! It’s like being in the twilight zone.
He also saves time to polish Ds wood as well
Yoda thinks the Company theme revolves around Bobby Farnham! There are memos being passed around! “We need to get our hands around this Farnham situation.” -Pens management.
Good job galchenyuk another Russian making headlines for domestic violence
Galchenyuk is American. You retarded fuck.
Of Ukrainian, not Russian, heritage 😉
Jan Hejda
Bonino hasn’t been that impressive this year
Are you Larry King?
Still had trade value
yess but perron and kessel dont have same value when pens went to get him.somewhere leafs fans and sam are saying told you so about the kessel trade while stan and some others were drooling over the trade this summer and were ready for a cup parade
Stan actually said Kessel was unobtainable, and that he wouldn’t pay the ransom it would cost, and then was pleasantly surprised at the fact that they paid nothing aside from a bunch of junk off of the scrap heap. What Stan said, was that Kessel was more viable than a retired Martin St. Louis, which Fat Sam disagreed with. Because retired players are more useful.
Oh – and I bet Kessel has a ton more value than David Perron. A TON more.
they both play like gay euros.
They’re no Farnham.
just because St.louis retired doesnt meen he sucks you clown i bet he could help the pens more than that chubby even tho he is way older but obviously your little american pea brain thinks scoring goals means you are an amazing player .St louis does all the little things that kessel never does other than just scoring .now go sell some hot dogs
He can’t help anyone – you know, because he’s not playing. St. Louis does NONE of the little things, because…he isn’t on a team. So, yet again, your point borders on the incredibly retarded. Because, hey, that’s what you do.
A 1st round pick isnt junk. Plus adding 6.8 million for a bum until 2022 is horrible.
There’s not even a guarantee that it’ll be a first round pick.
They 5-6-3 under MS but in reality they’re a winning team under him once he had the all start break to actually implement his system. They had like three losses in his first few games because they didn’t really adhere to his style of play yet.
What all star break?
You mean Christmas break
Yeah Christmas break, my bad. I don’t watch hockey during either of the two lol
According to stan you can’t be wrong
You thought McDavid played for the Canucks. That was pretty wrong. Even for someone as dumb as you. McDavid and Sedin!
When does the GM get fired?
not soon enough
Why fire the only GM who was willing to work under the criteria the organization set forth and is done at the end of the season anyway?
there is the payroll boy sticking up for the GM and the organization again. you fire him because the pens are in 10th. the last 2 months the pens play nothing but the east. just wait until they get beat up every night. no muscle and no goofs does not work in the NHL.
The GM didn’t draft a 65 point third line center, and sign him to a 12 year deal. That’s for damn sure.
Rutherford’s performance is right up there with Ben’s questionable TD:INT ratio.
either ways they signed him for 3 years im sure they wont renew it so no worries the damage was already done by that bone head shero as i said this team has no upcoming future.they need to trade kessel to get back young blood or malkin back then because that was the only valuable guy now kessel can take the hit if this year team chokes . if this team needs to have a future they need to make the moves by this year to next or less it will be late and hard to rebuild this team
Who they should trade is Letang, and his bloated salary / cap hit for 2/3 of a season every year.
and keep the russian that disappears come april
The Russian won a Conn Smythe – i hardly consider him a traditionally disappearing.
yes he did the Conn Smythe before he sees the big money
If we want any shot at cup have to keep Letang. We won’t find a franchise defenseman at 7 a year. Healthy Letang would be pushing 10 a year. To get a cup you have to gamble he is healthy the year you have a good all around team
trade kessel to Colorado
who’s going to want him? rutherford was the only GM dumb enough to aquire him.
honestly, how can i get a -4? how can anyone remotely be pleased with kessel? that woman is eating up precious cap space along with his hot dogs and is a ghost on the ice. pathetic aquisition!
I hate to admit I agree. He is creating but his lack of finish is very disturbing. We wont get near the value for him that we gave for him at this point and that contract despite TO eating salary make it harder to explore a move. It’s still a little early to completely write him off but fuck is he frustrating to watch. I would want to see him play a while with Bonino… when he gets back, before I start looking to move him. Also now that the system isnt chaotic I would be interested to see him… Read more »
so far pens will loose value on Perron and Kessel soon Bonino will join that list too
And they already lost value on Letang, because they signed pre-concussion / stroke problems, and before he missed 20 games a year like clockwork.
the pens always been a power play team as soon as that drys out they cant win games specially with the star players they have. Reason pens went 3rd round beating isles and sens was because their pp was working too
the russian with another penalty when game is intense .And that American chubby Fraud must be traded
I’m not one to say much toward owner of the site but either make an article for every game or just shutdown the damn site. It’s annoying only seeing article when they lose. I question whether or not you’re actually a Pens fan cause you come off as a Flyers fan.
I wouldn’t care too much usually but I pay for this shit so let’s get some happy posts on here. Thanks!
if we are making requests…d, please read this article: 13 Rules For Using Commas Without Looking Like An Idiot. http://www.businessinsider.com/a-guide-to-proper-comma-use-2013-9
To add to my rant….why not have a weekly article regarding who the Pens might go after at the trade deadline. It would be speculation but it would at least create a conversation amongst us users. Maybe provide why you think Pens will go after player “X” and we can discuss on the board.
Ya but if D did positive outcome articles then Yoda would stop polishing his wood and call him out as a paid blogger
pens lost? here comes an article
A day late