Penguins/NHL
PENGUINS – DEVILS TAKEAWAYS
The Penguins torched Keith Kinkaid for six goals on 30 shots in a 6-1 Penguins win. Getting a bounce back win, the post trade deadline Devils were the perfect opponent to avenge a bad loss from Saturday afternoon vs the Flames.
While the Devils are no longer a threat for a playoff spot, Pittsburgh pulled seven points ahead of New Jersey and put pressure on the Flyers to get a win vs the Lightning Monday to stay within three points.
Quick Strike: Evgeni Malkin opened the scoring 9:14 into the game on the power play and 38 seconds later Matt Cullen put the Penguins up 2-0 with his 10th of the season.
21:37: The Penguins scored three times in the first 21:37 of the game on goals from Malkin, Cullen and Nick Bonino to pretty much put this one away less than two minutes into the second second.
Closing in on 30 goal season: Evgeni Malkin netted two goals in the win, his 26th and 27th goals of the year. Malkin is closing in on his first 30 goal season since scoring a career high 50 goals 2011-2012. With Malkin closing in on 30 goals, so is Sidney Crosby who has a team-leading 28 goals. The last time Malkin and Crosby each scored 30 goals in a season was 2008-2009.
Murray shines during 5-on-3: Matt Murray stopped 17 of 18 saves, to record his 3rd NHL win. Murray with six quality starts in six starts this season, has a 1.82 GAA and .934 save percentage on the season. Wasn’t tested much but shined during a 5-on-3 penalty kill in the second period with the Penguins leading 3-1 in showing excellent athletic ability in going side to side. Murray’s elite level ability to anticipate the play continues to be the biggest takeaway from his game.
32: Nick Bonino scored 1:37 into the second period to put the Penguins up 3-0. The significance of the goal is it was Bonino’s first goal in 32 games, dating back to November 11. Bonino also added an assist for his second multi-point game of the season.
Schultz shows offensive talent: Justin Schultz had an assist, 2 shots on goal, +2 rating in 16:23 of ice time. From Schultz you could see the booming shot and vision that had scouts marveling about him before turning pro. For one game the system looked like a natural fit for him.
Defensively, there were some situations where he was getting bumped off the puck down low but not the best game to evaluate him due to the lack of talent he was going up against. Schultz saw bulk of 5 v 5 time against the Kennedy and Farnham lines. The Penguins need to throw him in the lineup Tuesday vs the Islanders and Sunday vs the Rangers to see what you really got.
Pedro is an Oriole.
What’s more funny: Gayjoy, St. Blurry, Sandy Hook?
I think
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Is the funniest don’t you think?
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So did we not “what we learned” the devils?
Anaheim will be looking to move out one of their young defenders as Hampus Lindholm or Sami Vatanen
Is there anyways pens can trade Chubby this summer and get both of those players
Do you want the pens to trade you?
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“You can hear the echo at the Bell Centre”
Hey yodumbass… are they in or out today?
He’s still trying to find a linemate to put with Sestito and Farnham on the Pens first line. Maybe he can trade MAF and Murray for Rinaldo and just ride Zatkoff.
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He will also need to get Babcock on the horn to initiate the trade.
Do the Pens trade Murray in the offseason and ride Fleury into the sunset? Or do they break up the core by trading Fleury? This will be quite the situation to watch…
Trade Fleury. They get more value and cap relief
too soon
Neither, you carry both… if you move MAF and Murray has a set back you’re screwed. We have spoken on this for quite sometime here. MAF mentors Murray and Murray gradually takes over the job.
Maybe for next year but you don’t have that luxury in the salary cap era. Eventually one goes.
Yeah – but usually teams wait unti lthe other’s salary is on the incline / he’s played more than six fucking games.
Yes…going with Murray is high risks/high reward. He’s shown signs he can replace Fleury. If we would make the deal this offseason and dump fleury for picks we could add Lucic as our #1 lw. Kunitz as third line LW. That would fundamentally change our foward grouping and make them much tougher to handle.
Neither, at least not in the near future, Murray has 6 NHL games on his resume and while they’ve been very good games it’s way to small of a sample size to base a franchise altering decision off of. MAF is the starter next year with Murray being the primary backup getting about 20-25 games, maybe then you can consider a move like that but I would still wait 1 more season with them splitting starts close to 50/50 before making a move of that magnitude.
if pens will move Fleury it will be not next year but the following year and i think that is the last year of fleurys contract. if Murray not ready then expect pens sign fleury for another 2 year
Well, goodbye Fleury. Thanks for signing the papers Sam.
The best situation for this organization is to have Jarry follow Murrays development providing them with depth and another movable asset down the road.
Sestito!
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