Penguins/NHL
Great game played by the Penguins in tonight’s 5-1 win? Absolutely not.
Great result to start a four game road trip? Of course it was.
The Penguins ability to keep finding ways to pick up points continued in a game they were hemmed in their own end far too often, out attempted 75-48 in the game and 64-38 at even strength.
It’s been the season of the Fleury Bailout and Fleury was sensational in the win during stretches the Sharks controlled the play.
From Fleury, to puck luck, everything bounced the Penguins way tonight.
Post-Game Buzz
Evgeni Malkin continues to just be on another level. When Malkin’s been at his best for stretches in the past, 11-12 season of note, he’s a puck hound in the offensive zone and that’s him right now.
If there’s an attainable loose puck, he’s winning it. The explosiveness and the anticipation he’s playing with has him a step ahead of the game. He’s tracking puck carriers so well.
— The Penguins were getting badly outplayed but holding onto a 3-1 lead in the third and the Sharks get caught for a too many men penalty. David Perron tallies a power play marker making it the seventh straight game the Penguins have scored a power play goal. One of the best signs over the last two weeks.
— Phil Kessel’s first multi-goal game as a Penguin and it was probably the easiest multi-goal game of his career. A wacky bounce off Paul Martin’s skate on an attempted pass for his first period goal and then an empty net goal.
— Matt Cullen put together an excellent game and was rewarded with a flukey goal in the second. Cullen has been much more effective in these skating games against Western Conference teams.
— The Sharks No. 1 defenseman Brent Burns was on the ice for 35 Shot Attempts For, 15 Against (70 CF%) at even strength. The Penguins No. 1 defenseman Kris Letang was on the ice for 6 Attempts, and a whopping 35 Against (15 CF%).
Letang struggled all night with managing the puck and remains a mess with his reads To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
DK added to the interview today lol. Basically he has wondered how MJ has had a job for sometime but now that we have identified dissension there is no excuse to not get rid of him.
what was the Yohe interview about
GMJR spoke out about player usage. He wants to see more of Sprong so that can make a decision on his at the 40 game mark. He has also voiced subtle concern about the lack of use of guys like Clendenning (it was a subtle shot at Scuderi kind of, at least thats how I read into it). He didnt quite throw MJ under the bus as many claim but it was a push up along side of one for now lol.
Everyone is talking about the Yohe interview… these guys wont even steal it to add content lol
If I could thumbs up this multiple times I would
2016 is near Folks the year that they will collapse the world Market
Is it groundhog day yet?
in other news Pittsburgh Penguins 26th in the League in goals per game:
Bob McKenzieVerified @TSNBobMcKenzie MTL puts Alex Semin on waivers.
its no suprised that lazy russian been on healthy scratch for most of the season some guy that most of you Drooled over to come play in pittsburgh ha Another drooling caracter Failed
And it cost them next to nothing to test it out to make sure… whats your fucking point?
5 days since we got a new article.
Maybe he will only post after wins…..in which case I see two weeks from now maybe
Still no content hey? two whole games and two more losses but no one working for a “Pens insider” gives a crap lol.
D doesn’t work on the weekends or on any day that ends with a Y
always he doesnt work when team Goes out West
Once again fleury best player of the team let’s trade him for and ahl goalie Bernier and make Yoda and stan happy
who cares if st.blurry is playing good now. he sucked from 2010-2013 when the pens should have made the finals 3 out of the 4 years. .834% against the flyers was a joke, he was a joke in montreal, and in NYI the train derailed and vokoun bailed him out.
I dont understand this? Stan has never been a MAF basher… you’re not to bright are ya? Wmal and yoda were the biggest culprits. To the point that even tho MAFs taken major strides one of these dumb fucks can’t not stop talking about 2012 and 13
Fuck yeah! Challenge win!!
we need an update. i have lots of funny stuff to say.
well then use the force to send it you moron 🙂
Did pens even play yesterday? It was a matinee game, no excuse d
Did same said pens will miss letang
Crosby suckss kunitz is too old and trade fleury. Get Bernier the goalie that is in AHL Come out come out where ever you are. Yoda, Stan
Pens should trade for Kessel. They need a game breaker
Have to admit, the goals are there but the game isn’t at all. He’s a shadow of the player from Toronto. He doesn’t carry the puck ever and doesn’t look like a threat at all over the blue line. He has sniped what? One or two? The rest have been garbage lucky bounces, I mean a goal is a goal but I thought we’d see a lot more snipes.
Anyone know how long Crosby will be out? Clearly he is at least dtd as he is fucking MIA again tonight
Was thinking the same damn thing. Like WTF how long will this last is he trying to get moved, has he lost all nerve, is he hurt or at last did he discover female body parts.
lol I guess his short bus got there late. Don’t care what ever just start showing up Sid.
Anybody in Pittsburgh just a heads up Baby Pens on channel 22 tonight at 7 if interested.
Dallas lost to Edmonton. I guess the team with the best record in the league sucks and should blow up their roster.
awww come on get more imaginative that’s like comparing apples to oranges or up and coming to a team at its peak who will be in the window for a few more years.
Now that letang will be out some clowns here will know his worth more but then again arrogance sometimes doesn’t even make you realize it just ask Stan
how desperate is this team to get people http://panthers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=108990
I am sure that KFC giant Bucket npl cant still afford it
They’re building a fan base. It doesn’t happen overnight you entitled asshole.
Yes 25 years
It took 25 years here. And who knows how much longer had the 1984 draft not occured, no?
Not to mention, Pittsburgh didn’t have the added challenge of winning over a largely transient fan base (www.dictionary.com – just in case you don’t know what “transient” means).
The Pens need their own Klopp Effect, this team is bipolar game to game.
Despite opinions among Pens fans, which are meaningless outside of Pennsylvania, Fleury will never shake his reputation until he puts it together in the playoffs. Not just one series but multiple series. As good as he’s been this regular season, and as solid as he was in the 2014-15 playoffs, he was still outplayed and couldn’t carry his team to a series win. Who knows, maybe that changes this year.
More of this delusional nonsense? He’s been solid in both of the last two playoff seasons. It’s over. Give it up.
Moron, my post states Midget was solid.
He can’t put together multiple series of the team dont show up. Basically this hangs everything on him. Win or bust and if its bust in MAFs fault no matter what the rest of the guys didnt do. Again MAF was very, VERY good last year… he went toe to toe with one of the best and looked every bit as good for the most part… Makin, Letang and Sidney however were not as good as NYs guys and that is why the team failed.
it is easy teams or fans blame their goalies when they are out of playoffs.even boston series was it vokoun fault or the offense couldnt score in that series as well
Trade Crosby
Give Malkin the C its time….
the c is overrated. stripping the c would do nothing but cause even more problems.
the only Consistent player since last year till today is FLEURY
do you all remember yelling at me when i said malkin only plays when he feels like it and takes seasons off? please explain to me how he can go from being a ghost to being the best player in the NHL in 10 games? why is it malkin only kicks it into gear when crosby is out of the lineup or sucking?
Wow you just keep getting dumber.
yeah malkin plays 5-6 games and he is MVP candidate yet he was a ghost last 2 months of the season and the begining of this season and no one even said anything .
You have got to be fucking kidding me… Geno was decent early on… faded a bit but has been absolutely dynamite over the past 6 or so games. Sid has been hot garbage since december last year
The FACT that Malkin spoke up and is the only one to really respond is what you need to be looking at. Fleury and Geno are the sole reason this team isnt flirting with the basement. Yes Geno disappears for times but at the end of the day the captain has been on roughly an 82 game absence. Malkin got his criticisms when he was playing shitty and he is rightfully being praised for carrying the team now… Sid has been crap, PERIOD. Geno is playing like one of the games best period. This isnt rocket science yet you make… Read more »
he didn’t want to show up Sid
I thought I would share this information here as well since the myth that Kris Letang can’t hit the net is thrown out way to often. Letang currently ranks 5th in the league among defenseman overall, only Burn/Byfuglien/Faulk/OEL have more. When looking at strictly just the powerplay which is usually the biggest complaint and is by far the biggest myth, Letang is currently tied for 10th among all defenseman with 17 sog, his 8 missed sog on the pp are right in the middle of the players in the top 10, Burns has 6, Byfuglien has 7 and OEL/Faulk/Subban all… Read more »
Interesting stats for a guy who is either 1a or 1B as a complete dissapoint thus far.
That really wasn’t to suggest that he was playing well just about pointing out that shooting isn’t and hasn’t been the issue. Other things like poor decision making are definitely affecting his play on the powerplay I just got tired of people using this excuse that he doesn’t hit the net which is 100% untrue.
Letang sucks north of the blue line. Give it up
Once again SAME was right Fleury will be fine once DB is Gone i guess its been the case last 2 seasons so far it shows you clowns are Dumb asses that wanted Fleury gone Over who Ward,Miller and Bernier
Same also said that “the russian” should be traded, meanwhile he’s keeping this team afloat. SAME is a moron.
yes you clown since he has value you have to trade him because come playoffs he is a ghost .Obviously you dont see business that way as soon as a player is doing bad u want to trade them like letang fleury crosby
God you just show yourself to be the dumbest person alive every time you post. It’s smart business to trade the Russian star who is carrying the team because by your estimation he disappears in the playoffs but it’s bad business to trade the Canadian stars who also disappear in playoffs but don’t play as well during the regualr season. You really are the most worthless piece of shit in the world.
If this team traded everyone that was a ghost in the playoffs, we’d have nobody left. I’ll take my chances not moving the guy that has a Conn Smythe though. As opposed to the Nova Scotian pussy we have “leading” the team.
DKs page may be more informative daily but the Crosby apologists are out of control lol
I don’t understand the apologists at this point.
when st.blurry was putting up his .834% in the playoffs you were chief apologist number 1
No, I was critical of MAF in the years he deserved the criticism and thats a fucking fact. The difference was I didnt lay it all at his feet and go off like a broken record like your stupid ass does. 2102 and 2013 were two incredibly bad years for MAF… he has been good enough to win with since but only dumb fucks suck as yourself dont see the issues throughout the team.
who cares if he has been good enough to win since 2010-2013. those were the years the pens should have won and those were the years they needed st.bluirry to play good. if he plays good now who cares. the window has closed.
Yes because the team was firing on all cylinders those years… my god youre so fucking delusional
Love how you have managed to shoe horn the “window of opportunity” into MAFs down years. The team as constructed on paper is good enough to win now with the additional of a solid top 4 D man… thats a mother fucking fact of life. The on ice product is an issue, has been for sometime… of course in your tiny brain its one players fault because youre an insufferable moron
i doubt its one player issue YODA hates every single penguins players .Name one player that you like Yoda.Kunitz,dupper,Fleury,?
how is the team constructed to win when crosby has 5 goals and sucks, kunitz dupuis and scuderi can’t play any longer, and their goalie hasn’t come up big in 6 post seasons?
You clearly missed the fucking point asshole.
Also I dont know where the fuck you get off… 6 seasons? He has been by far the best player for us of over the past 2 playoffs bar none and thats a fucking fact. You keep bringing up stupid shit like “the other tender outplayed him” when that other tender was Lundqvist. Here is a secret… Martin Brodeur outplayed his competition more times than not but last I checked he still lost series… point is MAF was very good and was the reason the team was even in the series in anyway both years. He cant score the goals… Read more »
only series fleury played bad was the flyers series and the other goalie from flyers was bad too but people forget, habs series was not just fleury the team was predictable and thats where Exactly Jacques Martin wanted them to be
He was dreadful in 2013 as well, since the coach and shrink he has been good.
Are we still pretending Sid was good in those years? Because he wasn’t. He hasn’t been worth a damn in the playoffs since 2009. FACT.
When Sid was busy crying and taking major penalties against the flyers, you were swinging from his nuts like a chimpanzee.
penalties in the NHL aren’t even real. sometimes they call it, sometimes they don’t. it depends on the period, the score of the game, and how many power plays the ref owes a given team.
Crosby must have some big nutts Zero for that many folks to be swinging from them all at the same time. Yo horse!
For all the complaining about Sid’s linemates, boy do I feel bad for Kunitz and Dupuis for having to play with a center that can catch or make a pass, I don’t blame Dupuis for not wanting to finish the game, I only watched 1.5 periods and I noticed at least 3-4 times Dupuis put a pass right on Sid’s stick to spring him and Sid couldn’t handle the pass. I’ve come to expect the 5-6x a game Sid is going to pass to no one but if you’re going to add in another 5-6x he’s going to miss passes… Read more »
sid couldnt handle the pass? how many times Kessel cant Handle the pass in every game of the season someone that is projected to score 50 Goals .Many times he cant handle the pass
I agree Kessel cannot hit moving pucks and doesnt look to hot shit but with 9 goals o his credit this season its hard to compare… especially when he wasnt “the best player in the world”
What does that have to do with people blaming Sid’s linemates for Sid’s poor play? Just more proof of you being the dumbest person alive.
crosby plays on LSD some night, mushrooms other nights, but mostly he is just high.
haha….no sam today malkin still waaaaaay better than canada
st.blurry has been fantastic. the difference between me and the rest of you and the pens organization is that st.blurry makes you believers. the only thing i believe is he won’t help the pens get past the 1st round.
No one gives a fuck what you have to say on the subject because according to you he was traded 3 years ago
They’re not getting past the first round because they have $8.7 million in cap space tied up in new Brandon Sutter.
Im actually not happy they won so convincingly TBH. This team has serious issues at the core and these wins keep putting band-aids over them. At no point this year will Sid just suddenly “figure it out” and this team will fire on all cylinders. They are in for a rough 1st round exit if they sustain their wild card position. Crosby has become a total joke. I know OV when through a rough patch for a bit as well but FFS this is absurd. I am not fucking happy with Sid nor Letangs play… oddly they are the two… Read more »
Sad state of affairs these past few years. Used to think crosby was cornerstone of this team. He hasn’t been the same since winter classic. Used to think he was untouchable but now might be the time to move on with lemiuex selling majority of his ownership. Crosby trade could fill some major needs and field a more complete team.
Nash, edm, mon, cbj, col to name a few all have pieces to make a reasonable trade work.
Edmonton would be frightening… McDavid and Sid? Similar to what we have here but if he ended up in Edmonton and rediscovered his game that could be scary good
They’d have to part with draistle + (sp) or RNH, Yak + But ya that would be a scary team
Man – if Edmonton could add Sid to their third line, yeah – that depth is scary.
I wouldn’t even consider a trade with Edm unless it started with Draisaitl. I’m not saying I think they should trade Sid but If it was to happen with Edm I wouldn’t take anything less than Draisaitl, Yakapov, Nurse, lottery protected 1st.
i’m not sure if you’d get a huge return for crosby. he is signed until he is 35. that is an absurd term.
You really are the dumbest person alive, at least when hockey is involved. Kane and Toews are both signed until they are 34 and they just recently signed those deals and I don’t hear anyone in Chicago complainig, When Jamie Benn signs his monster extension next year he’ll be locked up until he’s 35 and no one in Dallas will complain, LA has Carter locked up until he’s 36 and when Kopitar signs his deal he’ll be locked up until he’s 35/36 yet not a peep from LA fans. Please go find another sport already, clearly you will never understand… Read more »
crosby sucks at 28. he’s going to be worse when he is 35. it’s a bad contract.
even bettter if he is signed till 35 owners know its a bargin Crosby’s contract
Why didn’t Sid dress last night?
Kunitz has two points last night… guy has been a mess most of the year, looked better than Crosby on his own line. I fell asleep on my couch I think after the 3rd no look pass to fucking no one by Crosby.
Letang and Crosby are both a mess. Pairing them with old, slow guys is probably not a good idea.
Yeah – Sid was tearing shit up when he was paired with the young guys. Maybe he’s just the problem.
Trade crosby to Nash for josi, jones and forsberg
no – don’t.