Penguins/NHL
MONDAY’S PENGUINS BUZZ
Bobby Farnham was claimed this afternoon by the New Jersey Devils. Many saw this coming with how much of an admiration John Hynes has for Farnham. New Jersey also feels Farnham can help their penalty kill, per a club source.
The Penguins are not surprised he got claimed.
As for how this impacts the Penguins roster, it does little. Farnham was only going to play a handful of games this season and when he did, it would only be for five minutes a game.
Fans want to be frustrated, a bigger fuss should have been made when Marc Arcobello was waived last season, a productive player, than Farnham who got a lot of hype from the local media because of how great of a guy he is.
— Interesting scenario developing behind the scenes in the Penguins organization. David Morehouse was a prominent political strategist for a reason and everything is calculated with the Penguins organization these days.
Things are already in motion from the Morehouse/Rutherford duo that if things get bad, to make sure the narrative is squarely on Mike Johnston and absolving others connected to Johnston, the man who hired Johnston and a certain assistant coach.
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David moreheist does a great job for what he is paid to do. The sell out streak is intact. Everyone believes in the pens superstar BS and the entire city feels the pens are still on the brink of a cup. You can thank moreheists propaganda for that. It’s a joke.
maybe the best scenario is for this team to a have new majority owner hopefully who has connections with the league
I liked Farnham as a 13-16 forward
Is anyone actually frustrated that we lost Farnham?
Morehouse was a political strategist/campaign manager for the Clinton admin (Bill Clinton). Last time I checked Bill Clinton didn’t play in the NHL…
I figured his game would be baseball… something, something BJs
With every personnel or philosophical decision, it seems as though no one in this organization has any clue about the positive or negative implications. I am not insisting that each decision should be 100% perfect and without blemish, but its probably time to recognize that this management team doesn’t know hockey. Not enough goals? bring in offense. Too many goals against? bring in defense. There is no structure or system in place that says ‘this is our identity.’ Just bring in players who have certain physical attributes and pray it works. I can assure you, Detroit’s system isn’t that simple.… Read more »
Win now every year eventually catches up to you. It’s why we signed Dupuis/kun/scud while realizing the backside of their contracts could be a problem. Why we lack top 9 elc forwards because we haven’t had many picks.
Tampa Bay has 3 recent top 3 picks on their team in Stamkos, Drouin, Hedman. And have had far more top round picks to build out their team while also spending in free agency. Mixing elc with strong free agency signings is how you build a deep team
I disagree. In my opinion every decision does follow one direction and the focus is always based on creating positive PR. From a hockey standpoint I completely agree but I still believe hockey is a secondary objective for management, both of the examples you mention center on fan/media outrage over the issue you mentioned so they go overboard trying to give the apprearance of correcting those issue so that the media will write articles about what a great off season they had and the fans would jump for joy and spend money on tickets and merchandise. The Kessel trade is… Read more »
What a pathetic shit show, too many assholes too involved with what is going on the ice. There is a pecking order for a reason but no one know what it is here. Too many GMs, too many coaches doing too many things. We are over managed and you would be hard pressed to find one that comes across as completely competent. This teams a fucking league wide joke…
Oh and Moorehouse can get fucked, that asshole more than anyone has been a huge fucking problem in this franchise.
Well said. I hate that f’ing pud.
Whats really great is that “fucked” is not moderated lol
Don’t forget the mewling quim Mario. Quims not moderated here or on cable tv.
I don’t put a lot of blame on Rutherford. Most of his mistakes were a result of mandates from management. 1) Position team for cup run every year. Led to the Perron trade after the Dupuis injury. A 1st that was expected to be late seemed like a fair but not great deal. Winnik trade didn’t seem great, but was close to fair price, but was a deal we didn’t need to do since we weren’t a contender at that point, but management pressure said do something. Cole trade was a steal. Neal trade was probably selling low, but again… Read more »
I’m still waiting for someone to provide even the slightest shred of evidence that the Despres trade was a huge blunder. Even if the trade ends up being a mistake(which is still undetermined) it would be a minor mistake at best.
Its obviously a mistake no matter how you look at. Anaheim thought he was good enough to give a big contract to…we think highly enough of lovejoy to try and trade him for a 5th round pick.
Even if you don’t like depres we could have moved him this offseason for a lot more.
Rutherford’s job is get good value when he makes a trade. Its management that tells him the strategy to implment. The rest of the deals he did he got decent to good value. Depres wasn’t good value.
We’ve passed the point of absurdity on this discussion. This was a bad deal and even the guy who pulled the trigger on it has admitted he wouldn’t do it again. Nothing more needs to be said.
I agree with the discussion being pointless but I don’t think I ever heard JR use the words bad deal, that is a fan narrative used to twist his quotes to fit their objective. If you look at the quotes in this article from Mackey, he second guesses the deal and said in hindsight he wouldn’t make the deal again but he also point blank say he still believes it was the right thing to do. Nevermind I guess we can’t post links on here anymore but the quotes I’m speaking of were from Mackey’s article in the Trib on… Read more »
Those deals add up.
Suppose we didn’t do the Perron deal. Drafted barzal. Dealt Martin at deadline for a first. Drafted a forward. Then Columbus hasn’t wanted young defenseman – we may have been able to deal Depres for dano or Boone Jenner. All of a sudden with Sprong we have 5 young elc potential top 9 forwards which is exactly what the club needs
Ok but you didn’t say mistake, you said huge blunder and there’s a big difference between the 2. I don’t agree but I can at least understand the point of view that thinks it was a mistake but those who think it was a huge blunder are completely dillusional. As for what Anaheim paid him, I don’t see how that’s relevant to anything, Calgary thought enough of Engelland to pay him 2.9M so I guess using that rational we have to say that not resigning Engelland was a huge blunder as well and that Engelland and Despres are equally valuable… Read more »
Cannot believe this, the sale of this team has really taken a toll on everything. Honestly, we need a new culture in there top to bottom. As a fan, I will be the last to try and pick apart these players as they are only human…but the way management handles this whole team kills the heart of all of it. Who do these guys play for? We forget these guys have emotions just like the rest of us, and clearly they aren’t in this team right now and I blame the guys up top
This team is a box of jokes.