Penguins/NHL
Penguins show offensive greatness, defensive weaknesses in wild 6-5 loss
PIT Game Leaders Top-5
Evgeni Malkin | 2 Goals, Assist
Carl Hagelin | Goal, Assist
Bryan Rust | Goal, Assist, 6 SOG
Patric Hornqvist | Goal, 9 SOG, (disallowed goal)
Matt Murray | 10 Saves in relief
Penguins Bottom-5
Tristan Jarry | 8 Saves on 12 shots, .750 SV%
Riley Sheahan | Minus-4 (0 GF-4 GA), 0 SOG,
Matt Hunwick | Assist, Minus-3 (1 GF-4 GA)
Jake Guentzel | Minus-3 (0 GF-3 GA), 0 SOG
Jamie Oleksiak | Assist, Minus
The Penguins 6-5 loss to the Florida Panthers Saturday night had just about everything:
— Terrible starting goaltending from Tristan Jarry who was pulled in the second period after allowing 4 goals on 12 shots as Pittsburgh trailed 4-1. Jarry has now been pulled in two of his last six NHL starts.
— The third pairing of Matt Hunwick and Jamie Oleksiak was a mess in their own end, despite good possession numbers.
— Defensive breakdowns crushed the Penguins in the third period from stealing a point.
The way the Penguins were able to rally after Matt Murray was put it in the game continues to show how good this team is offensively.
Evgeni Malkin with 2 goals and 1 assist is just on another level and was unstoppable for the latter part of the game.
Patric Hornqvist with a goal, 9 shots on goal, also had a disallowed goal, was a maniac in net-front area.
Carl Hagelin was great again, setting up Malkin for a goal in front and Hagelin continues to be tremendous in how he’s hunting the puck on the forecheck. He’s back to 2016 post-season level, with 6 goals and 11 assists in his last 20 games.
Bryan Rust who tied the game at 5-5 was another bright spot. He produced a big time goal, had 6 shots on goal and his speed through the neutral zone on zone entries was at top level.
— The key takeway from Saturday’s game relating to the trade deadline was Matt Hunwick and Pittsburgh’s third pairing.
Hunwick had a poor game in his own end, on the ice for 4 goals against.
Does his troublesome night ring a big enough alarm bell for the Penguins to dive into the d-man market?
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Hunwick had troubles vs the Panthers in making poor decisions with his play away from the puck. His eyes were following the puck all night.
Two goals against I’ll look at here:
Some of it, though, will identify that Hunwick wasn’t as majorly at fault as it looked when the goals were live.
1. 3rd Period | Evgenii Dadonov Goal, 1:44
Evgeni Malkin scored his 36th goal of the season, 46 seconds into the third period to cut the Panthers lead to 4-3. At that moment it seemed like a near certainty Pittsburgh was going to find a way to rally and win.
But, 58 seconds later Evgenii Dadonov scores to make it 5-3.
And how the goal played out was issues the Hunwick-Oleksiak pairing had in the loss with a major lack of communication.
Hunwick gets caught in the neutral zone and on the Panthers zone entry that’s a quick 2-on-1 with Hunwick as the next line of defense on the backcheck…….both Hunwick and Oleksiak go towards Barkov that leads to Dadonov left all-alone for a one-timer goal.
Live the goal looked like a blunder on Hunwick as he is the left D on the pairing but as Barkov and Dadonov criss-crossed entering the zone, Oleksiak failed to defend the situation properly.
His job there is to take away the pass and leave the shooter to Murray. Hunwick was correct in back-checking towards the puck carrier.
2. 3rd Period, Evgenii Dadonov, 18:07
Another goal to look at was Dadonov’s game winner with 1:53 remaining.
There was a lot of bad in a number of areas and live it looked like Hunwick was the player primarily at fault as he didn’t stay home to defend the front of the net.
The play started with Phil Kessel’s inability to get the puck out and on the failed attempt to clear the zone, both Penguin d-men (Hunwick – Schultz) are caught on the strong side of the puck.
That is potentially problem No. 1, but as circled above, the breakdown of this goal comes back to Riley Sheahan who had man-to-man coverage on Dadonov and completely loses his man on the goal due to puck watching.
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F, Murray injured in practice. Need him healthy!
Where’s Stan?
Where’s Jaluco or Jeffed?
traded to DKS site for future considerations and a menstruating cow.
His here. He just close that account. And using. Tbj account only
Balls!
not sure where madden pulled this from but he mentioned Connauton from arizone? I have no idea who he even is but his numbers look decent
Connauton has been mentioned on other discussion boards and Twitter earlier today, could be where MM got it from although he is close with Tochett
Kane just traded to Pens
Where you seeing this?
You trollin I imagine, not a peep anywhere at this point
My wife told me
How she doin?
Cole traded before he ever played a game for Ottawa. One of our top posters here predicted that. Great Job!!
Lol
He is known as Simply Dusty. The simple things amaze him. Why should trade deadline day be any different?
Was that not the speculation around the trade when it happened anyway… had to really go out on a limb to make that call.
Yeah anyone who follows hockey and the Sens knew he would never play for them. You know he’s a UFA and the Sens are selling everyone so why would they not sell Cole?
Did we crash yet ? ?
Not yet, but soon. Make sure your helmet is secure.
Hey D, JR kicking any tires today?
sign st.louis…get it done JR
He will sign doan and iginla just for you
I love how you keep pretending it was everyone else that wanted Doan…. you literally used him as a contrast to Kessel saying he was the better option, even after the team won in 2016 lol
Quebec is not expected to make any moves today.
Montreal is expected to continue to sell on the other hand, their playoff picture looks bleak Cotton
1015 and site still up all is well 🙂
#SIDSBFFJJOHNSONWATCH
Funny. Either yesterday or the day before another site that has actually sources had a direct quote from GMJR that they haven’t ruled out adding another defenseman but this sites unnamed sources say the have zero plans to add another defenseman. I’m so conflicted on which report to believe.
Who am I kidding? That’s like being conflicted over whether or not Sam is a racist.
No conflict, the sammich is definitely a racist. Even his comments about Kane going to Philly? What does Simmonds have to do with any of it but yet… he connects those dots, couldn’t imagine why. Simmonds is class act in comparison to Kane so it must have been something else
#BRINGCOLEBACK
Ian Cole is now a member of the Blue Jackets for Nick Moutrey and a third round pick
That one hurts
#bringcoleback did not have a long shelf life
Great we get to see him in playoffs
NUTZ!!!
Did we crash yet ?
Aren’t you commenting? So no
Yeah Sam. Head over to the FourthPeriod.com
If the Pens are still looking to add winger depth for a run, why not go after a guy like Vanek? The rumored asking price is a 3rd round pick and if you can get Van to retain some salary, why not?
HB is linking Vegas to Karlsson. Imagine the story lines of a Pens/Vegas finals.
A big hockey fan I work with keeps telling me they’re gonna get rolled in the playoffs. I’m not sure I buy it. If they add Karlsson and Ryan as the rumor states, i’d put my money on them coming out of the west. It’s Vegas, Nashville and everybody else imo.
Who’s the best to follow on twitter when this site crashes?
Pierre LeBrun? Darren Dreger? Bob McKenzie?
Yes!
Those guys are good and I might find a good beat writer from a team that has a player on the move.
Yes You can. Always rely on those 3 canadians
Evander Kane and Josh Georges were held out of Buffalo’s 4-1 win over Boston tonight. No rumors but it could happen Both are in last yr of their contracts
Ducks ,kings and flyer’s are looking to add Kane and Josh Georges can be a good add on for the pens a stay home defence
Good to see Rick Nash brought his element of sucking to Boston. Speaking of sucking, Sam Sucks!
Sam sucks
2nd period bruins were all over sabres. But somehow sabres have bruins number this year
Yeah, Boston looks great. Down 4-1 to a glorified AHL team. Nice one, chubster.
Thanks
Mr. Box score
Wow Nash looks so slow lol. His lost assignment gives Buffalo the lead
You dumb fuckk bruins look slow and yesterday too they were very slow.
So how does that speak good of Nash? He’s slow and you’re slow, just in different ways.
Let’s play a game…
“I haven’t scored 40 points going on three years and clearly look like I’ve lost a step at on 33 but sam still wants to nuzzle my cockk at night” – name that player
Yeah. The Rangers got a heck of a return for him. I wouldn’t have given more than a middle round pick with them retaining salary. His last productive season was 3 years ago.
Am I alone in being confused on how nearly every player plays the next day for the team they are dealt to, but the Pens seem to trade for players that have Visa issues!?!?!?
Canadian to American team.
Trump Admn hates the Pens
Obama loved Pittsburgh sports
Get lost fatso
The longer I sit here, the more I think Sid wpuld like a winger in either kanr or patches. We have the cap room assuming there is retention held from their respective teams
The Pens have 446M in space, that’s roughly a 1.7AAV
Retention plus a sheary + stuff, and a hunwick dump if possible
They are worth a total of 5.7 AAV added to 1.7… 7.4… so it is possible but how do you fill the hole on the blue line?
Kanr. The new guys are cute.
For all this talk about Sprong being a sniper and skilled. He sure hasn’t really done much and his attitude seems to be really immature.
21 goals and 42 points in 42 games in the A… not one of those other names were this good at that level. Tangradi was the only one close but he couldn’t skate. Sprong is turning 21 and has played a total of 26 games in the NHL. Way too early to worry… now if he’s used to make the team better now I get it but if they can retain him I’d like to
I’m open to trading sprong. Dont want another Bennett, or poiluot, or despres, or tangradi, or … not saying he’s going Down that path but it feels eerily similar.
With that in mind, sheary + sprong + hunwick for McDonough (50%)
The rangers just got a far better deal for Nash and he doesn’t have near the value McDonagh has.
Don’t steal my trade idea. ZAR instead Sheary and pens will have to throw in a 1st in 2019.
Was making it sheary for the purpose of maing the money work.
Can you throw in a 2019 1st this year?
I’m open to trading him for the right return also, but I wouldn’t lump him with those other guys yet. Guerin is terribly tough at evaluating the young guys and imo expects the goal scorers to have too much of a defensive focus. He also was the one who was reporting back that ZAR was not ready and shouldn’t get a call up this year. Glad JR didn’t listen there. Give Sprong time.
Chris Stewart on waivers
OMG just read about Jordan Staals daughter. My prayers to him and his family. Sort puts all this stuff into perspective .
That’s why he missed the game Friday night. Very sad news.
Gionta sign 700k deal with bruins
Plekanec with leafs. They will be dangerous
Thanks for the insight. Everyone thought they sucked until you posted this.
No they won’t. They are the Leafs and will choke in the playoffs.
what does Oduya make? pens cap really tight that’s why i suggested Benn….
1m, but he’s due another 1.25m in bonuses
karlsson is horrible defensively horrible….
Oduya would be a nice bottom pairing in Pittsburgh good thought..or Jordie Benn Montreal good skater, good first pass, on an 1 year 1 million dollar expiring contract. Seen a lot on Montreal games he plays top 4 minutes and on the 1st PK team.
matt HUNWICH AND A THIRD ROUND PICK
Oduya is + 2 in Ottawa. On a horrible team.
Karlsson is -30 holy shit!
Don’t trade Sheary
What players should the Pens trade to open up cap space in order to add some defense?
Maybe the Pens can trade for Ian Cole…
Letestu back in CLB through Nashville… good now let’s never speak of it again
Oduya is on waivers… hmmm
Interesting…. statistically he’s been worse than Hunwick buuuut… in Ottawa
I thought he was a + in Ottawa? Even if he’s close that’s a big thing playing on such a shit team
Like Ottawa
Jack Johnson for Sheary + a 2nd and a 4th.
Have them eat 1 millionz
Edmonton is looking to add some speed.
How about we dangle Sheary for Maroon or Letestu + ?
Avauitu or Letestu?
Maroon or Cammalari on LW? Cam has speed to keep up with Crosby.
I’m not as high on sheary as I once was and am not as down on him now as some are. I’m cool with him riding along for another playoff run and if anything I’d be ok giving sid and the kids another try. His salary does look like it sucks long term though. Also maroon is overrated imo….not elite with McDavid wouldn’t be elite with sid
Agreed on all counts!
The hole that needs plugging is on the blue line. Letestu is a C and we are very deep here.
If “you’re all in and In win now mode” why not make a play for McDonagh. Sprong, ZAR, 2019 pick and Hunwick
I like it.
Some are in live with Sprong but he hasn’t exactly set the world on fire and he’s had chances to play with some amazing centers on this team. I think fans overvalue him.
Salary cap won’t allow it. Gotta move more salary. You still gotta move another 2.5 million.
BS – as we learned with Brasard, there are ways to navigate the cap.
The most that can be retained is 50% of a players cap hit. We have like 250k in space right now. Bodies have to be sent out.
Love to see it but I’m not sure they can fit it
Lot of praise by local press for GMJR but he’s gotta own the Hunwick mess.
He needs to unload Hunwick, even if it means playing Ruwhedel
Yes. It really undoes everything he’s done the past 2+ years.
Not what I said but I expect little comprehension from you
Panthers eyeing for mcdonagh.
Expect Vignault to be fire by end of this season
Id like to see that magic trick
Gotta do something
Sharks, ducks and flyer’s are interested In Kane.
I see that scumbag in flyer’s jersey with Simmonds
Pens had no plans to add another 5/6 defenseman? So this was going to be the year that Rutherford decided to march through the playoff year without 8 defensemen? Sorry D, i’m gonna call bullshit on that. If anything, Hunwick’s play tells you that you need 2 more defensemen, not just 1.
Nash to the bruins rags will also retain 50% of his salary. Spooner and belesky goes to the rags along with 1st and 7th round pick
Bruins now the favorites to win the East?
Why? Because of a player that hasn’t been worth shit in 3 seasons? Spooner moving on could hurt
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the love over a 40pt player and proven non-producer in the playoffs? I’d have been livid if Nash came here at Brassards price.
Nash is a shell of his old self and he’s a slug. He can’t keep up anymore.
No, Boston may have been badly rooked on this deal. Spooner might be a better player now than Nash is.
This is why I get frustrated with kessel salary he gets paid just to score and suckss ass in the defensive zone. While Crosby and other players in league gets paid like kessell but they have to do more with same salary
Hunwick gets paid to play d and seriously stinks
Is Sid leading the league in “the little things” category again? He’s a beast at that.
@Dustin – Possibly. But he is definitely leading the league in the hoisting the stanley cup category over the last two years. Factor in his contract and consider Nash is at 7.8M and Toews is at 10.5M. McDavid, who is really the only player you can argue is better than Sid, is signed at roughly 144% of Sid’s cap hit. Yeah maybe Sid isn’t the best player in the world any more but my God he couldn’t be more valuable.
Don’t bitch about the contracts for Sheary, Hagelin and Hunwick. Bitch about the 6.5 hit for the 7th highest point producer in the NHL this year. Yikes.
You should be more frustrated with Letang. His salary is killing this team. And his decision making sucks. He’s a turnover machine.
That’s why you’re a moron.
You’re such a fucken idiot
And if wasn’t for Kessel this team would not have survived the first few months. He was the only one who looked like he was playing. Be pissed at the D that is being paid to play D but doesn’t do shit.