Penguins/NHL
Greatness Happened in Colorado
Sidney Crosby’s wizardry vs the Colorado Avalanche was more proof that a couple months from now we’re going to be looking at this 5 game stretch from Crosby where he single handily changed the Penguins season.
The final score ended up being 6-3 after an empty net goal and a late garbage goal but the final score might have actually been spot on as before Crosby’s 3 goals in a 5:34 span, the Penguins were taking a beating where this was setting up to be a 5-1, 6-1 type loss.
The Avalanche a faster team were just coming at the Penguins in waves and waves for the first 30 minutes until Sidney Crosby happened.
“I thought Sid tried to will us to a win with his effort,” said Mike Sullivan. “I loved our fight. It was inspired by our captain,” said Sullivan.
Once Crosby came out of nowhere to take the game over for a stretch, the Penguins still have a way about them where the opposition can sense a major wave is coming and they seem to get in the opponents head like ‘uh oh’.
That was on display with the bad angle goal Philipp Grubauer gave up to Crosby after a bad holding penalty from Nemeth with 15 seconds left in the second period and then early in the third period Carl Soderberg takes an offensive zone penalty that gives Pittsburgh a golden opportunity to go up 4-3 and steal two points.
Instead Gabriel Landeskog scores 27 seconds after the Soderberg penalty expired and the rest is history.
Some Takeaways from the two game road trip:
— Is there a more under the radar superstar in the NHL than Nathan MacKinnon?
It might be the market he plays in and the 9:30-10:30 starts, but there’s is not enough buzz about MacKinnon being one of the NHL’s best players.
He’s McDavid type from being must-watch TV with the combination of a speed-skill-size standpoint.
— Learning to adjust?
These two matchups against the Jets and Avalanche, teams that are both quicker than the Penguins and 1-18 a bit more deeper, Pittsburgh was above 50% in driving possession against both and we might be seeing some signs where the Penguins are learning to adjust where they’re no longer the fastest team in the NHL.
The Penguins prior to the Dallas game started making some tweaks in exiting the zone quicker.
— Think Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel missed playing with each other?
Malkin was quiet 5-on-5 with 1 shot on goal. Kessel was the Penguins worst possession player at 20% as the Penguins were out-shot 9-1 when Derick Brassard and Kessel were on the ice together.
The line created just one scoring chance and Kessel had no shots on goal.
Brassard – Kessel just continues to show little signs of working. When Hornqvist gets back, Pittsburgh’s best route for now should be to see if Rust-Brassard-Hornqvist can get something going.
— Juuse Riikola sure has his liabilities in his own end but the last two games were a good matchup for the Penguins to play him where his skating was a major asset to retrieve pucks and his ability to join the play was very strong vs the Avalanche.
While on the ice for 2 goals against, Riikola was the Penguins best possession player at 74% with the Penguins out-chancing the Avalanche 7-3 when Riikola was on the ice.
— The Penguins end November collecting 11 out of a possible 28 points and are 10-9-5, 25 pts, after 24 games.
Last season the Penguins were 11-10-3, 25 pts after 24 games.
— The Penguins officially claimed forward J.S. Dea from the New Jersey Devils and re-assigned Dea to Wilkes Barre……The Penguins left Colorado optimistic that To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
Murray on the ice this morning. Not sure if that’s good news or bad… .
Rough weekend for Pittsburgh sports. Nice bowl game for Pitt, though. Tier 1 against a good team. A W Would look great for the program.
Did Zac Aston-Waste and Dominic Jibrone really have more ice time than kessel tonight???? Ummmm, yep. 17 minutes for jibrone and Aston-waste??? Really??? Sullivan needs canned immediately.
Could be worse have Pitt game on DVR
Had to miss game on DVR worth watching later?
Ask npl
Letang playing his best defense in the penalty box.
Funny how your agenda works only for him and you never see the Russians time in the penalty box. His been leading that department for 4 years in a row now but you wouldn’t know that because most of your hockey is half way watched
I have no agenda bandwagon sam. He took two lazy penalties in a row. Sorry I don’t comment on every second of every game. Don’t you have to jerk off MAF or bash MM? It’s been like 10 mins now.
While Crosby has been on fire and carrying the team on his back since his return of his injury ,while our Russian been on fire making sure getting all the minus for the team.
#coolstorybro
Is he carrying it on his left or right shoulder? Are you saying Sid is using a man purse?
Haha you edited it. You’re such a clown!
Letang was a solid 30 feet out of position there. Led to a breakaway goal. Man, he’s a train wreck defensively. No coincidence our GAA goes up when his ice time does.
Sam is William Nylander still going to Carolina ?
maybe on a roadtrip at some point this season
MAF named 3rd star for the month of November
#coolstorybro
I have a feeling pens will be rotating goalies tonight. Like npl always says .it will be entertaining
I only say that when your mom is rotating goalies
Anyone know what time Penn State football plays today?
So you can sneak in the library that you been banned and use their Internet?
No ill just go to a different library. Duh.
if sullivan was cool, he’d skate crosby with malkin and kessel. they’d put up 3 goals per game. and before you tell me how dumb i am, was it a bad idea for lemieux, francis and jagr to skate together in 96? one thing i know for certain, if sullivan was the coach of the 96 pens, he’d have all 3 of those guys on separate lines and each one of those guys would have had their season point totals reduced by 40 points.
Team had titov straka, lang,kovalev nedved. They had the luxury to do so. This pens team outside the 3 names you game rest are all plumbers
I like how Sam googled those names. We know he started watching the Pens in 2009. Poser. Sad.
I swear to God I did not googled but since you feel that way I bet that 2009 story is your hockey discovering journey . At least you are better than npl that started to watch since 2016
Heres a proof that I been watching pens long time. 96 pens used 5 forwards for their first pp unit. Now go suckk a dickk fatso
the worse part is I think GMJR is thinking of signing two or three of those players from the 2009 team.
Like who ? Craig Adams, Satan, Gill ? DB?
More Googling Jackass.
I figure Gill and Adams
Kovalev was traded for Nedved…
by the way, it was mentioned on here that crosby’s art ross days are over. i just want to put it out there if he skated on the top line in colorado his art ross days certainly would not be over. however, if you took colorado’s top line and inserted dominic simon on that line, those guys wouldn’t win art ross trophy’s either. sid has played with 3rd liners his entire career. who knows how many points he’d put up if he had all star wingers.
And yet always malkin sad that he has no wingers
Lets see what happens with nylander today. He has until 5 pm
In other news, another NFL player involved in an altercation with a woman
#BlackLivesMatter
Redskins will pick him up. Or New England.
NFL thug culture once again.
What a nice goal by parayko
R.I.P. George Bush
Thanks Sam. You suck.
tom wilson. match penalty tonight. see what happens
Who had 8 games for Wilson?
Completely unnecessary and avoidable hit. Dude is a bag of shiit.
Not according to Todd Reirden. There was no need to even hit Seney. The puck was well past gone.
The neutral arbitrator who reduced his suspension should be ashamed.
Absolutely nothing! Good old NHL.
To bad Marc Bergevin isn’t the GM of Toronto… the Penguins could offer Sprong, Johnson and a 6th round pick for Nylander and he would probably do it.
Yeah because pens gms never do bad moves. Since 09 they have done more bad then good moves end of the day reason they won its because of Crosby malkin era and once that era is done in a few years. We won’t see you here. Pens loss few games in a row and this board was quiet.
Every gm makes bad and good .
That pacioretty trade is amazing
Yep, this five game losing streak shows Montreal is killing it.
Give it time.
Even Crosby and Malkin couldn’t win multiple times with Fleury in net. As soon as he got benched, we won two more cups.
Right Sam, you bash every player on the team not named Crosby, you cheer when they lose, rip the coachs, propse the worst trades, bash the fan base, give thumbs down in responce to posts when the team scores and jerk off MAF every five mins. You are the apitomy of a bandwagon fan. Maybe if MAF was not the goalie during the Crosby/Malkin era or if he had not had numerous playoff meltdowns they would have won more Cups. I respect him as a player and as a Penguin but he caused more harm then good when playoff time… Read more »
Pens are heavily shopping for a goalie. Any chance they can trade all 3 frauds
Murray, desmith and jarry and get fleury instead lool 3 for 1.
Dude enough with the Fraud stuff! We all get it and we see your point and agree with you!.please pick a new word…..We know Murray has sucked……but so do you using the same annoying Fraud fraud fraud we get it dumb ass…
And to think Colorado was ready to give up on MacKinnon.
these endless line experiments are stupid. the pens were incredible when they loaded up the top 2 lines. who cares about who’s skating on the 3rd line. look at the avalanche’s top line. it is unstoppable. if sullivan coached them, he’d break that top line up immediately. he gets in the way by trying to achieve balance. so dumb.
I’d agree that we should certainly keep Phil and Malkin together. I’d also keepthe top line together with how they are scoring. I’d look to move someone for a LW with Brassard and Hornqvist. We also need Schultz back badly.
capt obvious
You and I both know that never crossed your mind until you read my post…
Cant wait to go to Montreal and hang out with my buddy Sam.
You there to see his mom?
He is bringing Price a Red Solo Cup.
We don’t want fat people here.
I would be exited too if I was leaving shitholee Florida and go to Montreal where all the best restaurants, nightlife and hot woman are here
Only one hot woman in the entire city
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