Penguins/NHL
The Center Mismatch
Penguins – Lightning last night was a classic case of a major mismatch down the middle.
Pittsburgh sported Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, while the Lightning came at the Penguins minus no Steven Stamkos (injured), Brian Boyle (traded) and Valtteri Filppula who was traded to Philadelphia, with Tyler Johnson and Brayden Point as their top-2 centers.
With Victor Hedman getting the Crosby matchup as he often does, personnel wise the door was open for Evgeni Malkin to have favorable matchups and he made the Lightning pay all night.
Malkin was dominant in all facets with 2 goals, 1 assist, and a puck possession machine, on the ice for 16 shot attempts and just 4 against in 5-on-5 play.
Lightning goaltender Petr Budaj called the Penguins scoring surge a “couple lucky bounces”.
“A couple lucky bounces [for Pittsburgh], but when you have possession and you have some odd-man rushes, you have to have bounces,” Budaj said.”
I’d call it the Penguins taking advantage of horrid defense. In a 2-2 game, Pittsburgh gets Malkin and Crosby out together and the Lightning fail to stay in their lanes leading to a Mark Streit goal.
“They’re such great players [Malkin, Crosby] that when they don’t force it and take what the game gives them, they see the plays that are there,” Mike Sullivan said.
— Prior to Mark Streit appearing in his first game with the Penguins last night, there has been a lot of praise from scouts surrounding the addition as a sneaky good move that could pay dividends for the Penguins.
The common thing I heard from multiple scouts on Wednesday is the Penguins system being tailored to Streit’s strengths in how it should be a natural fit very quickly. Dave Hakstol is not regarded as Mike Johnston 2.0 for nothing, a system that hinders offensive talent.
Streit looked like a player Friday night who had already played 80 games in Mike Sullivan’s system.
It was quite the debut with a goal, assist, 62 CF%, and an impressive Scoring Chances For% of 75.
I thought the coaches going right to a Hainsey – Streit pairing was a smart decision. On paper it looks like a really strong pairing in how both bring different things to the table and at least for one game it played out that way.
— Justin Schultz with a goal, assist is now up to 41 points. He is going to have a nice arbitration case if it gets to that this summer.
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Apparently panarin once said he would never have sex with a black woman lol. Who would other then Rick Grimes
“Derrr, but I am not racist, you all are the ones who are racist!”
This is such a dad joke. If your dad was retarded and unfunny. So bad at this.
Being a Democrat is a joke
Jumbo Joe with his thousandth dime tonight. At least we know where sam is tonight
fap, fap, fap
D, how about an article about how the Pitt, PsU, and WvU kids did at the combine. Also include any local kids that did not go to one of the 3 local schools.
We need a full day dedicated to Simply Dusty. I want to know everything about Simply Dusty, I demand a simple bio on him. I want to know the hospital SD was born in, I want to know the size of his mother’s breasts that Simply Dusty was (or still is) breast feed on. I want to know the first girl Simply Dusty kissed. No subject matter on this man is too small for us. Simply Dusty, I created you and by doing so I gave you your image, your trade mark, one can even argue- your heart beat. But… Read more »
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Play to your friends Yogurt and Sam.
Green Arrow! I want to know why you made him retarded.
D kills me with his day late posts that he updates the timestamps on. He sure fooled everybody!
Hey D, I checked GoDaddy.com today and ihatefleury.com is still available if you are thinking about renaming the website.
Letang would love to have Schultz’s offensive instincts..dude is going to get paid. #NoLetangonPP
He’s going to bank. Fortunately, we have a lot coming off the books, but it will still be hard to sign him. Letang’s contact is putrid. I don’t see it coming off the books any time soon though.
GAME WINNER ASSIST UPDATE
Who’d have thought a game winner assist MACHINE like Schultz could be found for merely a third round pick. And honestly, how can we call Sidney Crosby the best in the world when he’s being challenged for GWA glory by a throw away defenseman like Schultz, and two fourth liners like Malkin and Kessel?!
Crosby – 7
Schultz – 7
Kessel – 6
Malkin – 6
Letang – 5
Cole – 3
Hornqvist – 3
Rust – 3
Daley – 3
Maatta – 3
6 tied w/ – 2
6 tied w/ – 1
I think Crosby adds some distance soon. He’ll show he’s elite in the game winner assists category.
st.bleury the superhero saved the day! all hail st.bleury!
You were better off hiding! You look like a bigger assholle, if that’s even possible, with this post lol
he sure did
Looks like when I was on vacation in Florida, Simply Dusty didn’t get any smarter. Green Arrow needs to kick the $hit out of you. He really is a simpleton!
It’s funny how him and Sam agree. Sam because he only wants French-Canadian players in the lineup, and dusty because apparently moving forward with a guy who’s gotten lit up like a Christmas tree for the better part of a decade and a guy who had never played an nhl game is a good way to spend our window for a cup.
That’s why he’s Simply Dusty. He’s a moron who knows very little about hockey. He learned hockey playing video games. Did you ever see his trade proposal posts? Sam, Dusty, Yoda 3/4th of the Mt Rushmore of idiots on this board.
Guys, let’s commit to Fleury. He played two good periods in early March. That surely means more than the last 6 years and horrid season this year. I can’t see how that would go wrong.
Man, were the fools out tonight. It’s always fun seeing same go full same. At least he found a donkey in dusty to join him. Glad to see you made a friend little guy.
Shocked to hear crickets from D and Yoda after today’s game.
I find there was a lot of shots in this game but a lot of TK style
is that like gangnam style?
DB fired yet?
Therrien is. Again.
Trade Murray in the offseason, no need to have a $4 million backup. Get Jarry ready to backup Fleury and take over in 2 years.
Are you slow? I’m seriously asking, because I won’t belittle you for your idiotic opinions if so.
I actually won’t regardless. Some people are just a lost cause.
Because I don’t think Murray is that good of a goalie? Because I think it was premature to give him a raise to $4 million a year? Because I think we have a goalie in the minors that will be better than Murray and do the job at a cheaper rate? Because I feel we could add a major piece to the defensive unit by trading Murray who’s value is overvalued right now?
Even on TVA they said it Murray got the job in playoffs because fleury was injured and the team was hot with him. But 90% of the time team in front plays good and bails him out. Yet cucksucker sully puts fleury vs good teams when he hasn’t played much to protect Murray’s stats just like he did vs the Hawks.
More then a hot goalie the team in front of him was hotter you had people blocking shots with their heads you had hbk line rolling. You had letang shutting down ovi without scuderi
They won a game with fucking Zatkoff in net. How much more do you need to know about the goalie not mattering last year? Murray is closer to a Cam Ward, JS Giguerre, or a Niemi than he is to a Dryden or Roy. People need to pump the breaks on Murray and realize he has a LOT of holes in his game still and has yet to prove he can play a 100 game season.
He has age, size, big chest and calmness over fleury but he is fragile gets injured often I don’t see him playing full seasons he has no glove. He is not agile, acrobatic endurance to play full season plus he is very slow when teams try wrap around he becomes small and doesn’t even try to Poke check. TBJ fleury looked bad under DB I bet your Murray would look worst. Imagine fleury had 10 shootout under MJ the so called coach that will never find job again
Big chest!
Well same, fleury has looked bad pretty much all year without db, so once again you make no sense.
Get fooled by the numbers fool typical bandwagon. Fleury played better then the numbers he has. Team in front played shit..with Murray team bails him out
They also lost with zatkoff. Man, are you bad at this.
Wow! Simply Dusty think we could have won the cup with Zatkoff in goal. You are an idiot.
Zatkoff was obliterated the very next game…
I thought kessel was a fraud same?
He got the job because fleury was hurt, then kept it because he’s better and outplayed fleury, dumb$hit.
I guess you know more than every nhl scout, all of which have Murray with a much higher projection.
You suckk dickk tbj your hockey starts in April so it’s obvious you only take Murray’s side
LMAO, you have no idea how stupid this actually looks. So lets say tbj only watched in April on… Murray showed he can win while MAF has been all over the map. He was solid vs NY in back to back years but ultimately outplayed and lost… so please tell me, what is it you think you have here by suggesting that Murray is only good for this team in April on?
I like the part where Zero tries to reason with the board retard
Just once I would like to see him answer one of these lol
Fleury traded yet?
Losers like D and Yoda were praying for it.
Since it makes sense to pay a bank up almost 6 mil. You’re on a roll today.
Trust me there are other teams doing it too but dumb asss media is only focused on fleury and pens .Canucks, Kings,stars, wings to name a few
Even the rags had a expensive backup goalie earlier this year when queen Henrik was playing like shitt
Sooooooo four teams… only one of which is somewhat of a threat have made poor roster choices so we should to?
Same thinks the Stars and Canucks are doing it right. Back up goalies deserve 5+ million!
No you moron what I meant is if you think pens doing bad choice there are other teams too but your pea brain always sees it opposite
No it means you think that because other teams are fucken up you can justify the Pens potentially doing the same. The fact that you missed that leads to questions related to your brain… you fucken wannabe Canadian queeb
Sam struggles with easy concepts.
Fleury hasn’t been or starter since last year. Lundqvist was struggling for a bit, but they were never going to move on from him. Fleury has had one of the worst years of his career. 3.15 gaa and .905 sv%. Let’s roll with him! The only reason you aren’t crying about him like the b1tch that you are is because he’s French-Canadian. You cry about malkin and he’s one of the best players in the league and produces accordingly. I’m happy you agree with dusty. You guys are meant for each other.
In only focused on Fleury because I’m a pens fan. I can understand why you wouldn’t.
Yoda wants to blow it up…and by it he means his moms pu**y…he loves to fornicate with his mother….she’s comforting him as we speak that sick little green bit**
His mom must have a huge penis then.
So big bears try to hibernate in it
This is the kind of game that sends everyone’s favorite power bottom into hiding for a few days….
Guess what Yoda the W will go to fleury always team bails Murray for a W nice to see fleury gets one of those because half of the W Murray doesn’t deserve this year
Crosby was clutch in that comeback. He did all the little things.
Doesn’t matter he had no points. Just ask stain
He’s getting hot at the right time.
I know toews is while Bobby Ryan and Parise faking injuries and mumps
With letang.
Dusty how did dB do? You think he did in game adjustment or watch the ship sink with his arms crossed
He stayed in the locker room with NPL after the 1st period eating hot dogs.
He made more adjustment tonight than Therrien and Hartley combined.
Remember when same said pens will regret trading fleury this is prime example. Same also said Murray will be mentally tired and fleury will end up getting his job back that is still to see. Now trade fleury. Not only players bailed Murray this time fleury also bailed him out.
Hey Yoda once again magic number 4 in Order to win
What I remember “same” saying was that we should sign Marty St Louis…the day before he retired.
You also said Malkin is trash and he’s a major reason they came back… you also said Sheary was nothing more than a product of Crosby yet he nets two points that Sid didn’t get in on…
Fleury time. Goalie contraversy coming up for Sully.
Not exactly.
Murray dogshit his last 2 games. Fleury awesome his last 2 games. Yup, exaxtly…Murray is spent.
Murray was dogshit against Tampa? Ok, crazy.
I missed that game drunk. I was thinking Dallas game.
Two bad games in Walt March clearly means Fleury should be the starter. Forget the fact he’s been below average on half of his starts and has terrible numbers. Forget the fact that Murray won the cup last year. Simply Dusty at his finest.
As Sullivan should know…you ride the hot hand at the end of the year. Fleury getting hot, Murray cooling down.
Lol oook
Hainsey is my new whipping boy. Hate him
You probably think Hainsey is a goalie.
Lmao
This is why having 2 goalies was the smart move
Connor fucken Sheary… took him a game to get back but wow
Sloppy play boys… good thing the Sabres seem gassed so it’s only screwing over the offence
How does letang look tonight guys….
Can’t be any worse than #65.
Poor Kunitz.
I think Crosby is wearing 71 tonight guys
Team playing more confident with 29 in there….
Geno bringing the boys back!
MAF sharp here too! Excellent series of events that led to the team retaining him for the back end of this year. As Murray is showing the cracks of the 82 game schedule MAF will be here to add insurance.
Agreed. Would love to see MaF go out a hero
Great rush by Geno! bout time for Schultz, he hasn’t done anything since he got here…
Remember that save if the Pens win!
Is Crosby playing.? Canadian take the game off?
Pens to lose vs another backup goalie? Anyone has the stats how many of pens loses this year has come vs a backup goalie
When did we sign Pedro Alvarez to play goal? Worst glove ever.
The only thing Murray has vs fleury is size bigger chest and his calmness that’s about it agility ,acrobatic, glove he can forget that
You guys think pens will need 4 to win or more today
Sam’s old bf DB putting it to the Pens.
Why is Murray on his knees the entire time? He’s a goalie, not a crack whore.
Murray looks good again
Get him out of the fucken net! Yoda, we need to understand what’s happening here… what’s the excuses?
Murray must have pics of Sullivan’s mom.
Murray with clutch save after save keeping the Pens in it. I guess we need 8 to win today.
Sheary taking Franson to school… stays out because the Pens shoot blanks vs backup goalies
Unfuckenbelievable
My fucken god… this is no goal? Ugh come on…
Murray really needs to work in that part of his game, he gets real small in net when the puck gets in there tight
Staying off his knees? Ya that and his terrible glove need a lot of work.
Yoda would lose his mind on MAF for a turnover like that, looking forward to the excuse!
He will probably say he didn’t have time to watch the game
Wonder why league insider “D” hasn’t commented on Kypper reporting multiple sources claiming McPhee is targeting Fleury as his goaltender….
I googled it and just read that article. That sumbitch completely plagiarized what your prophet posted yesterday including my smile and billboard prophecy. Let’s hope it comes to pass.
I don’t believe a bottom can be a prophet. Just saying.
I was real impressed with Streit. Hainsey not so much.
Should be a decent pairing… Streit can play at his whim with Hainsey to anchor him. Over 4 games Hainsey is a +3 and a 52.6% CF so far. He’s mostly not noticed but that’s kind of what you want from that type of playe. Besides he’s an upgrade from the A guys we had in the line up.
Very familiar with streit from the habs days he is simular player like Markov. Reason habs let go because of age salary and played same position on power play as Markov back then. His downside just like Markov he is not that fast on skates but like Markov he is very very patient with the puck and have good vision and is a very good quarter back on the power play.Wish pens had streit after habs instead of Martin. But then again in DB’s circus he probably would’ve been lost too
Anyone think the Steelers might take a flyer on Conner? He’s slated from 4-6 and Williams may be gone. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in Pittsburgh.
Conner to B&G with their comp or in the 4th Rd.
Dusty anyways you can find npls hot dog cart, jaydoggs bar and stain buckeye donut that he works at
Better chance he can hunt down LeStroke.
#FakeCanadian
#WannabeAmerican
I mean. LeStroke is French. He’s fake Canadian by definition.
#queeb
#wannabecanadian
English muthafucka… do you speak it? Nice to see Letangs been upgraded to who the fuckk knows!
That Letang paragraph might be the worst I have seen from this hack.
I love the commentary around the injury. No one knows what the fuckk is going on but it’s the type that could nag him the rest of the way? Lmao
What ain’t no country I ever heard of! They speak English in What?!