Penguins/NHL
Penguins – Capitals Game 4 Fallout
The Penguins took a commanding 3-1 series lead on Patric Hornqvist overtime winner in Game 4 but is it a fortunate 3-1 series lead for Pittsburgh or even a lucky 3-1 series lead?
Yes, they’ve had some lucky bounces on goals, but lucky or not, you can’t overlook the championship type quality Pittsburgh is showing in how they’re winning one-goal games.
It’s a special quality the Penguins are displaying that the Capitals haven’t shown through four games or maybe just don’t have.
“I’ve really grown to admire the character in the room, and how much they care about winning and their worth ethic,” Mike Sullivan marveling during a conference call with reporters on Thursday about his hockey club.
It’s all played a part into the Penguins stunning transformation under Sullivan.
This team not even needed coached up, they needed a coach to come in and believe in them and give them the confidence that they can beat anybody by playing their way.
The character in the room compared to year one under Jim Rutherford has also been quite the transformation.
Year one you had guys brought in with no leadership qualities in the likes of Steve Downie, Daniel Winnik, Christian Ehrhoff, among others.
This season what Matt Cullen and Trevor Daley have meant in the room has been almost just as important of what they’ve brought to the ice, those close to the situation say.
Another sign that the last four months have been the perfect storm.
5 v 5 Numbers, Exploiting Structure Breakdowns
As predicted prior to the series, special teams would even out between these two clubs and they have so far with Pittsburgh’s penalty kill 11 of 12 and Washington’s penalty kill a perfect 14-for-14.
At even strength the possession numbers and scoring chances have favored Washington.
On-ice shot attempts, Washington (53.3 CF%) is +28 with a 227-199 edge. Scoring chances Washington is +16, 101-85. High danger chances the Capitals are +7, 38-31.
The Capitals failed to win Game 4 despite a 30-19 edge in 5 v 5 scoring chances, including a 17-7 advantage in high danger scoring chances.
Bad luck? They probably have had some bad luck in this series but that’s an excuse losers make.
The key stat from all of this — Pittsburgh is +3 in 5 v 5 Goals For, 11-8 —
The Penguins are just so good at capitalizing on defensive breakdowns from the Capitals pertaining to their structure.
On the Hornqvist overtime goal, the Penguins capitalized on Mike Weber running out of position by initially chasing up high when Tom Wilson was waving him back. Weber should have never even been on Matt Niskanen’s side to have an opportunity to play the puck in setting Hornqvist up for the goal.
Meanwhile, the Matt Cullen goal was more than just Cullen beating Nicklas Backstrom in coverage. What the Penguins love to do in the neutral zone is swing the puck side-to-side in making a cross-ice pass to attack off the rush or chip in to go get it.
The Capitals knowing this, when the puck goes back to Brian Dumoulin, Karl Alzner over-pursues to take away the cross-ice passing lane to Oskar Sundqvist, than you have Matt Niskanen being too aggressive for a pointless hit on Tom Kuhnhackl.
With Niskanen taking himself out of the play and Alzner not able to cover the middle of the ice by being too wide, the veteran savvy Cullen is in all alone after Backstrom was puck watching in the neutral zone in letting Cullen get behind him.
This is the type of breakdown that shouldn’t happen to a No. 1 pairing. The Penguins have torched the Capitals bottom pairing d-men and through four games now it’s pretty much been all of the Caps d-men.
In the last two games, Matt Niskanen has been on the ice for 5 goals against, including all three in Wednesday’s loss. The Alzner-Niskanen pairing has been on the ice together for 4 goals against during that span.
Takeaways
— Most impressive about Matt Cullen’s 3 goals in the playoffs, all three goals have been 1-on-1 shots between him and an elite goaltender — 2 vs Henrik Lundqvist, 1 vs Braden Holtby —
These have not been deflection goals or shots through traffic. Just him and the goaltender.
— Derrick Pouliot is the type of defenseman who’s always going to find a way to put up decent possession numbers, even very good #’s in this system, but his offensive production still doesn’t exceed the threshold where you can live with the defensive lapses and struggles to win puck battles down low.
Going by a game-by-game basis, Justin Schultz earned the nod the stay in the lineup for Game 5.
— Matt Murray looked to be off on his angles at times and fighting the puck some early in Game 4 and the Capitals could still only beat him twice. Murray has an exceptional ability in stopping high danger scoring chances. He’s now given the Penguins a quality start in six of seven games.
A good stat from Ryan Wilson of HockeyBuzz on Fleury and quality starts. From 2010-2013, Fleury had 9 quality starts in 31 playoff games. From 2013/2014 – 2014/2015, some improvement for Flower but still just 8 quality starts in 18 games.
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Crosdy is the early 90’s version of Barry Bonds. Malkin is Bobby Bonilla.
As soon as I read Simply Dusty predicting the Caps in game 5 would rollover and were done, I immediately cleared my schedule for game 6 Tuesday.
Yeah that dude is a f**king idiot.
game 5 was fixed. the NHL does that sometimes. the caps were getting all of the power plays and they slashed the pens relentlessly. pens in 6
“Fixed” – one of the fastest and least predictable sports in the world played out much like other games in the series except for the result.. “Fixed”!
Fixed!
So in your fixed fantasy how much did the league pay Murray to throw the game? Regardless of how the refs call the game if the goalie stops the puck the outcome can not be controlled, so basically by saying the game was fixed you must be suggesting that Murray was in on fixing it.
Orpik is back next game. Guaranteed Pens win.
Orpig and mattaa will be back for game 6
Pens won last game without letang. Clearly he screwed with team chemistry. #samlogic
Everyone is acting like the sky is falling. The caps want to win too.
So just to make sure I understand all this correctly, ever time MAF has a sub .900 sv% game or let’s in a bad goal he’s the worst goalie in the league and single handedly causes the Pens to lose but after Murray has 2 sub .900 sv% games so far through 5 games and has let in 4-5 weak goals he’s the best player in the series. Did I get that right?
Saint Blurray
He let in 1st shot
Murray sucks. Play Zak
It’s funny how yoda is fully absent when something happens that falls outside his own confirmation bias
are you suggesting murray should have stopped the ovechkin one timer, did a bad job by stopping ovechkin on another one timer where the rebound went in, and should have stopped the 3rd goal where the referee assisted on the play by not calling a slashing penalty?
Ohhhhhhh so suddenly not every puck is stoppable? Your ability to back pedal is probably your greatest skill!
Yes to be clear I am 100% saying he should have stopped the 3rd goal that was a writer from 20′ that went through his legs, an NHL goalie SHOULD make that save 100 out of 100 times. I didn’t actually consider the Ovechkin goal weak because Ovie is the best shooter in the game but being honest, a 6’4″ goalie shouldn’t be getting beat over his shoulder by shots from the top of the circle, if he knew how to properly use his size that goal never happens.
Either the Pens win this series in 6 or the Caps win it I n 7. More simply said, pens must win game six. – Jaydogg
The score of the game is now in the Instant Buzz section if anyone is curious
Pens in 6
But you said the Pens wouldn’t make the Playoffs! Predict the Caps win will ya
i said that before they got a new coach and a new goaltender. things change.
There is big liar yoda ignoring the fact that he said exactly this after Sullivan was hired. He is also disregarding the fact that MAF won 12 of the 16 down the stretch… Classic yoda
You most certainly said it in early March after Malkin was injured. After a new coach and Murray was on the roster. Lying fuck.
Malkin turned the puck over at least 15 times tonight. He was horrible.
Not according to Stan
Malkin an chubby
2 off days now to have Sullivan drilled with the Murray/Fleury question. Should be fun!
Yeah let’s bench the pens best player in the series.
Who said to bench Murray?
Who other than Yoda said Murray was the Pens best player this series? If 3 goal on 13 shots is your best player you have no business being up 3-2 in the 1st place.
Actually, hell say “Murray, no question about it” and thatll be all.
I don’t think he’ll give the caps the answer that easy. Even if it’s known to the players, I think he’ll be wordy with the media.
Can we trade in all the little things Sid is doing for one or two big things? This team could use a goal…
What little things is he doing?
I was told he was doing the little things.
Maybe he’s having sex with a dwarf
Wow terrible call on the Amish. Oshie should get for diving
Niskanen is a shutdown defenseman now? Hahahahahaha
Must be the scuderi training
Or it doesn’t take much from a d-man to shut down sid anymore
Once again cbc showing sharks players arriving while NBC has some fat fuckk eating pizza at caps game
Cbc should show all the Canadian teams golfing
Better than hot dogs
this game sucks. it’s one of those games where the NHL doesn’t want it to end in 5. the pens keep getting called for phantom penalties and the caps get called for nothing. 4 power plays to 1 is BS in a league where they are always evened up.
How has Murray been? He making those big saves to keep us in?
Yep the NHL made Murray let in another bad goal. Classic Yoda.
Dumo hasnt been the same since the Ovi hit. Is there a less physical defenseman in the league
Yes.
Anybody seen mstari’s pacifier?
Yawn….
Boudreau 4 years 2.7m per with the wilds
Choking coach with choking organization perfect place
Wilds!
In Sam’s defense there is more than one wild. Common mistake.
Lightnings > Wilds
Neither Malkin or kessel have a pulse. Might as well load them up on the same line.
A least pens can have the other line going instead of 2 lines dragged down
Get the Sid line going. Only been 5 games.
Holty just won the game. #goaliematters
Schultz playing didint notice him up until now
Must be on Sid’s line.
That’s a good thing. He’s the #6 dman
There’s our captain with a blind backhand pass giveaway in the offensive zone again
Malkin needs to show up ever third or fourth game to help us forget hoe miserable he is.
Told the droolers here every time he shows up expect a 10 game vacation mode
Next time it’s three months, let’s talk. That’s a strictly Canadian trait.
There is our Russian in the offensive zone
Malkin has no pulse
Must be the WC dates getting closer
If caps scoring in 2nd period which is usually pens best period I wonder what will happen in 3rd when caps play their best hockey
I wonder what will happen if Sid ever scores again.
Yeah like malkin and Kessel any better
Another great shift for the Sid line.
Trade Fleury because Murray seems NHL ready
Caps , little nervous they missed 9 times the net in first once they get confy pens can be in trouble.in 3rd
I don’t remember Ferris missing 9 times.
By the way. I think it’s confit. Not confy
9 times the net!
Where’s NPL?
Probably protesting for the 15$ minimum wage at the KFC
There goes Sam thumbs downing people again
Wow you get 2 thumbs down just for asking about that fat slob I wonder who gave those 2 thumbs down
1 probably from you.
Nice clean change by Sid. Doing “all the little things”
Yeah it’s Crosby fault when he is nowhere near the bench when bonino Is already on the ice
He made a change like the controller disconnected again. His move. #leader
I wonder if he’ll ever score again. We might have seen his last goal.
Don’t make fun of Sid or compare him to Ovechkin. You’ll upset mstari.
He does. Worships at the altar of Cros.
Really Stan? I’ve called him out many times. Didn’t even comment on your posts. Don’t team up with Simply Dusty. You hang with stupid….well you know the rest.
You’re the one looking for a team…. Keep sucking ass baby
What? Take a night off champ.
I get angry at just most of your posts Dusty. I’ve called out Crosby before when he doesn’t play well. Nice try Simply D.
Cry much baby?
Actually you were. Your whiny post started it. That is why you are Simply Dusty.
Talbot at the game next to Mario
I need to see a pic Same. You are usually wrong.
Watch cbc Canadian hockey broadcast you’ll see more hockey people then watching on American NBC when all they show is some fat slob eating hot dogs
I would have thought they’d show one of the playoff games involving one of the Canadian teams. Oh….
You mean you would have tough
Cam talbot?
No max
Get Same off the internet.
Get this sheery off from pens first line he is nothing but an imitation of TK
Do you watch game in details he harassd by 3 4 caps at time
Fuck off… Who do you suggest then retard? Kids not the problem on Sids line
I dont think hes been bad on the 3rd line with Sid.
Trade chubby sam
Nice play Sid.
Kuni!
Shoot the puck!
They had 6 sog during that pp, that’s actually quite a lot considering they scored around half way through.
Go figure Fleury gives up a goal on the 1st shot of the game.
where is Yoda. Caps 1 shot 1 goal I bet if it was Fleury in net Yoda would’ve been here by now
Where is crosby?
On the scoresheet.
Ovechkin > Crosby. By a LOT
Simply Dusty at it again. He’s priceless!
You love it when i’m right 🙂
Nice pic by Oshie.
Fleury!
Hey Sam. How do you think this “Sid vs Ovie” part of the series has worked out?
Pens come out asleep dammit!
Time to wake the fuck up Pens
Lol, really? So they started hot? They didn’t need to wake up?
This fucken guy is back
http://i.giphy.com/3sV6yZJTk2WFq.gif
So Deigo, you lying sack of shit… Go find the post where I said Pouliot “looked good”! Closest it game was “decent game” after you called him a train wreck, evidence I available all over this webpage fuckhead.
Then again I’m not sure why I’d waste my time with one of the assholes that’s been dying to “blow the roster up” for the last five years. The jack ass that also suggested taking the teams most consistent line apart in the middle of the series because reasons.
Great first shift. Shift. Sid looks ready to roll!
Hey stan what do you think about Crosby as Hart trophy finalist?
That I didn’t know it was a half season award.
Ovi won it a few years ago playing only half a season well.
So you endorse that? Or did you bitch then and think it’s ok now?
Thanks for the pre-game morning update article D. You suck.
Just putting it out there that I put a few bucks on My Man Sam to win the derby today.
Watching the movie cool runnings. I think they made a spelling mistakes should’ve been Coon Runnings
How big was the black cock that you seen boar open your mothers stink hole that lead you to become the racist piece of shit you are?
Trump sucks butt. Thumbs down if you agree.
Who do you vote for? Hillary? If anything, its a lose lose
Its a lose/be destroyed scenario. This country needs a leader, not a divisive figure who acts like a petulant child. Do you think you could honestly name more presidential characteristics than Sam-like qualities that Trump offers?
Hillary is a leader? On what planet?
Lol didnt says she was. The only indirect slant toward Hillary I made was referring to her presidency as the “lose” scenario compared to the “destroyed” scenario that is Trump’s presidenxh. Ill take the former to get us through the next 4 years and hope for a better candidate to emerge in the interim.
Eh. I don’t need to be holding my breath wondering if this is the day our president finally has charges filed against her. Although it’d be pretty cool to have a husband wife tandem impeached while in office.
Youd rather a president with a court date already set?
Is Fehr Injured?
Who has made a bigger impact for their team this round, Crosby or Stamkos?
Push
For discussions sake…..is this series Murray’s all the way to completion regardless of how long it goes?
Let’s say he loses tonight. Do you go to Fleury for game 6? Given that I don’t think you can go to Fleury after a month+ off and say ok Murray lost Games 5 and 6, go win me game 7 in a rabid verizon center…..I think if it is going to happen, it happens in game 6 IF Murray loses. Then if Fleury loses 6, you go back to Murray in game 7. I know what Yoda thinks, curious about the rest.
I think its Murray for the rest of this series. If he has two bad games back to back early next series, then you go back to MAF.
There’s no doubt the rest of this series is Murray’s no matter what, how he finishes the series will determine next series.
That lightning team is sneaky scary. If they get Stamkos back next round look out grandma.
Stamkos is a star player. Those players dont perform in the playoffs. Have you learned nothing from John Steigerwald?
I think you missed the point of his article, unless I’m missing some sarcasm here directed at the Usuals
Completely agree. Any team that reaches the finals and loses the prior year is a scary team. They’re really well balanced. I personally don’t like bishop a whole lot and think we would get to him. I just want to get hammered and win tomorrow so I don’t have to worry about anything until next weekend.
Bishop has been incredible for 6 straight series. So while i hope thats true, i wouldnt bet on it.
What are your thoughts on the Lightnings?
Comparable to the wilds.
Is there a possibility of Stamkos returning? I thought he was already ruled out for the remainder of the season.
No they said they was suppose to return by 3rd round
Which means he definitely won’t be returning for the third
Possible by end of conf finals. Kypreos is reporting that the team has not shut him down. He was put in the 1-3 month time range, and conf finals is 2.
Zero, any word if Pouliot looked pretty good in practice today.
Not sure, rumour is they decided to blow the roster up finally and only Zatkoff seemed to take the ice
Sam. Remind me what part of Canada Kucherov is from again. I can’t remember.
Sounds French
I love how every Stanchion post has like -5 likes hahahahah WOOOOOO #SamStatus
That’s the high point in life for a piece of McKeesport white trash. Which makes me laugh. You’re doing good work rothey. Anders Lee!
Reppin McKeesport, dawg. Jealous?
In a white trash kinda way
Literally not one post has a -5. No wonder you wear Velcro. Guy can’t even count to 5!
Due to the lack of thumbs down in this thread I’m left to assume Sam is either still in Daycare or was given a timeout by mommy and daddy.
you do notice npl is not here today so he is the guy that gives people thumbs down
but ill do him a favor and give you a thumbs down now
Funny that NPL still isn’t hear but you are and so are the thumbs down. Surely you have to realize that you don’t possess the mental compacity to pull off a ruse like that.
http://img.ifcdn.com/images/8384890f93739423f6efcc72ea9b6ea6ba55b7b891c3e11f09cf819c80d88ca2_1.gif
Oh cmon Sam, thats funny!
DePaoli. What’s your thoughts on Paterno knowing about Sandusky all the way back in 1976? Success with honor!!!
That is disgusting. I’m glad he’s dead.
Where’s Mrchady been the last few days? Adding his overwhelming wealth of hockey conversation would really help turn the tide of this comment section.
Yoda blow up the team yet?
@depaioli, thank you for the quality stat post in your article. you are the only author in this city with the nutsack to post something like that against the propaganda wishes of the pens. that is why i pay you for your content. thank you for being an actual journalist instead of a propaganda minister or fanboy.
LOL
I’ve pretty much stayed out of the argument you popsicles have been liking each other over during the past 5 years, but I’ve got to draw the line at calling depaoli an actual journalist. that may be the single most outlandish statement that I have read on here. jesus h christ
hahaha, no one called anyone a “JT”
Nope. I’m flat out calling Yoda a “JT”.
Hahaha
You’ve really out done yourself this time, Pens bloggers have been using discussing the quality start stat for a long time and Depaioli did even do the research to come up with the stat, he plagerized it directly from a Ryan Wilson blog. You really are a world class moron.
who cares if he came up with it. the papers and dk would never dream of mentioning that stat. i don’t see you making a hockey argument defending how great st.blurry is. it’s because you can’t so instead you do what morons and brainwashed slaves do, you attack the messenger (yoda).
So because DK wouldn’t mention it that means Depaioli is the only person that has the balls to say it? You really are the biggest rube in the world, literally ever Pens blogger on the internet has been talking about it for weeks now and Depaioli wouldn’t even have known about it had it not been for him stealing it from someone else. As for defending Fleury, why would I defend him, his play speaks for itself and it takes more than 1 stat that is more a team stat than an individual stat to discredit Fleury’s play, well it… Read more »
I think we’re all in agreement that Yoda is one big ole cup of stupid.
I 1000th this motion
But to be fair, you also thought Pouliot “looked good”. Lots of stupid going around.
I dare you to find where I said he looked good you illiterate ass… The closet I game was he looked fine… In game three… After you stated he was a train wreck.
it’s funny you know every pens blogger has been talking about the quality start stat for weeks. unlike you, i don’t have 14 hours a day to surf the internet looking for hockey content. hahahahahahahahahahaha!
So you have 14 hours a day to come on here and post biased, cherry picked, half truths but you don’t have an hour or 2 to actually educate yourself on the game so you don’t look like such a fool every time you post. Here’s a friendly piece of advice, take 30-40 minutes every morning either while having breakfast or while taking your morning sam and read through a couple of blogs from people who actually have sources and know what they are talking about, you’ll be a better and more educated person for doing so and then you’ll… Read more »
How does this have any thumbs down? Holy shit this place is awful
quality starts 35% of the time and you knuckle heads think he is a hall of famer and the fans want him over murray. and you guys thought i was nuts for saying he sucks. you all need to look into the mirror and realize you’ve all been had by a mega propaganda machine i.e. david moreheist, bill clinton’s campaign manager.
I ask again… please find me ONE fan that has said put MAF in over Murray? On this page and on DKs… and on all 100,000 facebook pages its pretty unanimous. MAF sits until Murray implodes. Quit lying dude… there is one thing that I have noticed about you is you are a huge fucking liar. Does it make you feel good to know that others can see that you are a completely untrustworthy piece of human filth? Liars are some of this shittiest people on the planet… can’t trust them. You lie in virtually every post, be honest just… Read more »
He has no choice Zero, being “intellectually” honest and telling the whole truth would confirm what most of us already know and that’s the fact that he’s a complete moron that has no clue what he’s talking about. I don’t blame him for constantly making stuff up, it’s the only hope he has of not looking like a fool. If I were Yoda I would probably do the exact same thing out of pure embarrassment.
for the record, the years the pens won the cup in 09, i bet st.blurry only gave them about 15 quality starts out of the 24 games played. one of his miracles were 2 quality starts in game 7’s on the road. those miracles went into him allowing to become a saint.
for those who are saying i have no comment on the “world class clunker” murray let in in game 4, here it is….it was not a world class clunker, it was a world class fluke and a lucky shot. murray did what every goaltender in the NHL is instructed to do. when the puck goes below the circle, they are taught to go onto one knee with 1/2 their body in the net with their paddle flat on the ice. this prevents weird bank shots off the goalies body and players sneaking it in off the short side off of… Read more »
hahahahahaha – it was awful. And regardless, the point is (and not only would I bet my house on it, but i’d take out a second mortgage and bet that too), if Fleury had done it, it would have been a world class clunker in your eyes. You have zero credibility, and even less integrity.
I agree stanch- it should be a shit goal regardless who is in net. Cant change the narrative to fit the agenda.
Holy shit, and there you have it… he’s officially the dumbest cunt on the board. For you to come to the defence, at length, of a bad goal for Murray with complete and utter contempt for the other guy when he does the same just shows how fucking biased you are. I mean it’s not like most listened to your rhetoric in the 1st place but this is pure gold B/S even for you lol.
he played the shot exactly how every other goalie in the NHL would have played it. it was a lucky shot.
Would you, or would you not have been all over Fleury if that puck went in…
Eat a bag of dicks… if that was MAF you would have taken a shit on his front porch!
So basically Yoda is the only person in the world(including Murray who called it a bad goal that he misplayed) that is defending the goal and thinks it wasn’t a bad goal. Should be all you need to know folks.
Jung Sam’s Mom Kang will be back soon!
Wilson from hockeybuzz is a hack….the worst…..
“This team not even needed coached up,” yet Wilson is the hack. at least the guy puts out daily content and has a basic grasp of the English language.
Hopefully Letang plays Saturday. He will definitely be playing with an edge if he does.
Why wouldn’t Letang play on Saturday? He was only suspended 1 game.
They probably made rothey get off the computer at the public library before he read the full article.
actually his wife had a miscarriage you dumb fuckk
The quality start stats are amazing. how are you guys going to spin the fact that st blurry sucked in 65% of his playoff games?
It’s definitely right up your ally, take a result that involves every player on the team and boils it down to giving credit/blame to just 1 player for the team result.
Murray gave up a world class clunker two minutes into the last game. Then not a word from yogurt.
I’ve been saying it for years, in a tight playoff series it comes down to the goaltender. murray has been awesome and he is playing better than holtby.
Murray has been slightly above average and has had more puck luck than Holtby.
Not to mention, Murray doesn’t have a bottom blue line of Orpik, Orlov, Schmidt, Chorney and Weber. Shhhhh, don’t tell yoda.
agree a few of those inand the series would be diffrent also pens score few quality top corner goals
if those perfect shots wouldnt went in series woulve once again be diffrent.
and for those think pens will win satruday i doubt number1 team like caps won let pens defeat them in 5 games and at home
i have pens in 6 in my bracket
“Slightly above average”. Holy moron quote of the year.
The results have been excellent, the play that has led to the excellent results has been average at best, add those 2 together and you get slightly above average because he and the team have found a way to get an excellent results despite average play at the position. Mark my words, Murray continues to struggle with his rebound control and continues getting himself out of position overreacting to shots that aren’t on net and it’s only a matter of time until we see a repeat of game 1, if not worse.
.944 save percentage is slightly above average? I agree with the puck luck-how many breakways has he stopped this series? A bunch
Again though if you go back and actually watch the breakaways you will see that Murray is basically beaten on any shot that is more than 12″ off the ice but in all but 1 or 2 cases the save was made because either a strong backcheck or poor shot execution prevented the shot from being elevated. Murray deserves a lot of credit, he’s making the majority of the saves he needs to make and the end results are excellent but the end results are strongly effected by the stellar defense the team is playing in front of Murray and… Read more »
Stop before someone reads one of your boring posts and realizes your a moron.
File that one away with “Pouliot looked good”
You’re nearly as honest as yoda…
Remember that time the team lost 4 – 0 to Boston… with Vokoun in the net?
….and i’m sure vokoun gave them 4 quality starts. didn’t they lose every game 2-1? i can’t remember.
The Penguins scored 2 fucking goals in the whole series… thats the point… the team did nothing to help. Last year he had a GAA 2.12… decent numbers… the cup winning goaltender had a GAA of 2.31 FTR. Difference was… one team had the support of the players in front of them. We all realize MAF was in a bad spot for a couple years but it takes a special kind of dumb to continue to lay blame at the feet of the guy… even in the bad years the team as a whole looked like total dog shit and… Read more »
West>East
Holistically, maybe.
“Pavelski is so clutch” – Sid Crosby.