Penguins/NHL
Post-Game: Lightning are beating the Penguins at their own game
So who starts Game 6?
It has to be asked because the Pittsburgh Penguins are coming out of Game 5 with the who starts in goal question again.
The Penguins will be facing elimination in Tampa Bay Tuesday night for Game 6 after a 4-3 overtime loss tonight when a Jason Garrison shot deflected off Tyler Johnson and into the net past Marc Andre Fleury to put the Lightning up 3-2 in the series and an opportunity to close it out at home.
For the Penguins, this was supposed to be a night where they put the Steven Stamkos/Ben Bishop-less Lightning on the brink of elimination.
The night where they turn to Marc Andre Fleury and the loveable Fleury is every columnists’ story Monday morning of how he was the right choice from Mike Sullivan and he leads the Penguins’ to a victory to put them one game away from the Cup Final.
Instead Fleury’s performance is now under the microscope as is the play of Penguins’ stars. Sound familiar?
In the loss Fleury stopped 21 of 25 shots as the Penguins now boast a woeful .879 team save percentage in the series.
The first goal against with the Penguins leading 2-0 was a killer when Alex Killorn beat Fleury from the left corner 32 Ft out.
“I should have been better especially on the first goal,” Fleury said. “That was stupid, tough to lose.”
The Lightning would score four times on their final 14 shots. For Fleury, the more concern wasn’t with the one’s he let in, but how shaky he looked on the one’s that didn’t go in.
“We knew he didn’t play for a while and you, obviously, want to shoot more and we saw he was struggling a little,” Nikita Kucherov said of Fleury via Tom Gulitti of NHL.com
When the coaches evaluate Fleury’s performance in the morning, how unsure he looked in the latter half of the game in his struggles to track pucks, especially high, has to be where the focus is in evaluating whether to stick with him or not, compared to looking mainly at the goals against.
“I’m not going to assess his game right after the game,” Sullivan said of Fleury.
Overall the goaltending this series for the Penguins has not been strong as evident by a team save percentage of .879.
Mike Sullivan owed it to himself to go to Fleury in Game 5. No coach probably would want to deal with the backlash Sullivan would have been bound to receive if he would have stuck with Murray and he had a poor night in a Penguins loss. Backlash from even some of his coaches would have been there.
Right move or not doesn’t matter now. It’s all about making the right move for Game 6.
When you go back and evaluate Murray’s performance since the second period of Game 2, he’s been pretty good. Game 2 he shut the door after the Drouin goal, Game 3 he was excellent and even in allowing 4 goals on 30 shots in Game 4 to open the door for Sullivan to go to Fleury, he looked a lot better in giving up 4 goals in that one than Fleury did tonight.
You could make an argument that Murray’s last three games have been a stronger stretch than Games 5-6 of the Capitals series and Game 1 of the Lightning series where he was entrenched as the starter with no intention of going to Fleury.
The goaltending situation isn’t the only pressing issue for the Penguins. They have bigger ones.
Tampa Bay has been the superior team the last two games. They have not allowed the Penguins to take over games for large stretches like the Penguins did in Game 2 and in particular Game 3 when they put on a masterful performance.
Pittsburgh has had little answers for the Lightning’s transition game as they’re winning the neutral zone.
Maybe the most pressing issue of all is that Tampa Bay’s best players are starting to out-play the Penguins’.
Kucherov scored a pair of goals and added an assist tonight. He has seven points over his last three games and leads the NHL with 11 playoff goals.
Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang had dreadful games. Letang on the ice for all four goals against was a minus-4 and had a team-worst 36 SAT%. Crosby other than setting up the second goal by driving possession along the wall, was a complete non-factor with 2 shots on goal and just 4 attempts. He was rarely a dangerous player on the ice.
Letang’s last two games have fit the characterization of his career in the playoffs. He goes into this rut for 2-3 games where his level of play just melts down that is devastating for his hockey club. Game 4 with him losing his mind and Game 5 more so with his level of play have been that.
Wondering who the starting goaltender is going to be for Game 6 and having a major left wing problem on your top line are not things you need when on the brink of elimination.
It’s what the Penguins are dealing with.
The Evgeni Malkin line was the Penguins most productive with Bryan Rust being the best player on the ice but it would be something if how this post-season looked like it was going to be so different, yet it ends the same like so many have before — Suspect Goaltending and the stars going down quietly.–
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Good Murray is back in, Sheary for Bennett was pointless. Bennett wasnt bad last game and Sheary hasnt been good. I would have rather gone with 7D than bring Sheray back at this point. Then again maybe the seat will spark him the way it did last time, fingers crossed.
So happy Murray’s starting…
Hey jaydogg was BB reallly playing in game 5 i guess same and sully had the same tough about that fraud
Just an amazing call to go with Murray. Indictment of Fleury’s career. Dude is done.
Not done, just most likely done in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh media (DK & MM) continues to insist that the Pens will run with MAF and Murray next year.
That’s understandable but they’ll risk losing him for nothing at the expansion draft. Very rarely do you see a starting goalie moved mid season, and that’s not even considering his cap hit. (Look at Luongo)
If they move MAF it will be done at the draft.
Murray in net for starter at morning skate
Boooooooo
But it really doesn’t matter. They both produce the same results.
Don’t worry D, I got your instant buzz. Sheary back in for Bennett.
Right move.
Zak in goal tonight. Tough to argue he hasnt been the pens best goalie in playoffs.
1 – 1 with a .908 SV5 and GAA over 3…. ya he has been dynamite lol. So hot right now
#FreeJarry
all hail st.bleury
-4 Letang
Sam, did you give Letang four thumbs down on Sunday? You know youre not allowed to vote more than once, cheater.
Meanwhile, ESPN just learned California has a third hockey team in San Jose!!
Melrose is one of the most annoying people covering hockey.
Yeah I’ve never really like him at all. Kevin Weeks is the only person I want hockey news and opinion from anymore ha
He’s good. Mike Rupp is good as well.
JR,Melrose and milbury are the biggest clowns in NHL panel history pure Frauds
I’m not sure that you know what fraud means.
NHL and NBC have 5 years left on their deal. ESPN is picking up the WC this year. I wonder if big ratings would get them interest in getting the sport back?
NBC doesn’t know what to do with itself right now…no Hawks, flyers, caps, or Rangers…Pens are all they have left. #WhatAboutTheRatings
Sam. Do you ever get tired of Pavelski embarrassing Sid in the playoffs? #Canada
Pavelski is on the anti-Sid playoff tour
Last I checked it’s a Canadian that is making the American look good. Thornton 3 assist tonight
It’s like behind every black crime there Is a white man who organized it. And attention gets the black
Ya, that’s it. Great analogy.
Isn’t Rothey black?
No but npl’s lover is also the one that cheated on him was black too
You spelled jew wrong…
Sam, am i saying this right: Letang moins quatre?
What does Zetterberg think?
Miss that dude
He was hilarious.
He was basically Sam if Sam could complete a sentence and grasp how to properly use a comma.
Stanch, stop being so miserable. That’s zero’s role.
Kind of like how Sam and yoda have nearly cornered the market on utter buffoonery yet you continue to add your name to the hat?
That was weak
What was his ranking on here?
Sticking to my silverlining attitude I’ve been trying to maintain today, I see the team signed Guentzel to his 3 year ELC, much like 2 years ago when I suggested Pens fans were really going to like players like Wilson, Rust and Sundqvist once they fully developed, I’m now going to suggest that they are also going to like Guentzel(and Bleuger) in 2-3 years when they are ready to push for NHL roster spots. Both are on the smaller size but have high hockey IQs and skill Guentzel has the speed and skill to eventually mesh with the current top… Read more »
I really like Bleuger. He always is one of their best in camp.
It’s kind of funny watching everyone turn on the team so violently. Adversity can be the teams best friend. Regardless of what happens anyways, if I told you in December that the Penguins would be at least two games away from the SCF this year, I’d have to be a lunatic. They have been fun to watch for the first time in a long time.
I haven’t turned. They got this sheet. I said it was going 7 from day 1, which means you gotta lose 3.
I still believe! Hey you are allowed to lose 3 games. I thought this would be a long series even without Stamkos and Bishop. Typical Pgh fans, not all of them, some of them.
I believe.
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If Schaff believes then we are good. One of the best guys on here.
Fourth one is always the hardest to win.
1991 Penguins lost Game 5 in Pgh to go down 3-2. Won Game 6 in NJ with backup goalie. Won Game 7 in Pgh with backup goalie. – Steigerwald
I certainly don’t think it’s over. Right now you have to win a road hockey game. That’s all.
I don’t think it’s over either but I also don’t think anything that happened in 1991 has any relevance on this current series.
No. Of course it doesn’t. That’d be high octane lunacy.
I was more worried about the Caps than this Lightning team. Maybe that’s just me underestimating the opponent, but the Lighting haven’t been so impressive that I’ve given up on game 6. I’ve been more underwhelmed with the Penguins performance than anything.
It wasn’t just you Balth, I was actually surprised by how many Pens fans who were completely overlooking the Lightning and were predicting the Pens in 4-5 games. I did and still do believe the pens are the better team but TB is very tough opponent that actually matches up better against the pens than The Rangers or Caps did. I didn’t see any scenario where this series wasn’t going 6-7 games and definitely felt the Bolts had a very realistic opportunity of upsetting the Pens.
I had the Pens in six… Realistically they could easily win the next two however this would require some of this mind blowing consistent inconsistency we are getting from the top players to right itself. I’m not overly confident in this. The urgency that will be required should already have been on display. I guess we saw a little of it at the end of game 4 but it didn’t carry on to the next game.
I go with Murray in game six and hope for the best.
I have to say that it’s pretty amazing that there are so many vastly different perspectives of the Pens and their situation, here it’s all Fleury’s fault, on DK’s site it’s all about the star core not performing and on HB, RW is writing about how the organization let Sid & Geno down by surround them with inferior talent. I understand that fans will always have greatly differing perspectives but I would expect the people reporting on them would be a little closer grouped with their analysis.
i don’t buy the inferior talent for sid and geno. geno scored 39 points being flanked by talbot and fedotenko. hornqvist is a good player for sid who should be scoring more too. the core isn’t held accountable. letang runs around like an idiot, geno and sid won’t pay the price and go hard to the net, and fleury gets the benefit of the doubt and is loved by management no matter how he plays. i’m in favor of dumping all 4 after they lose tomorrow. i’m sick of seeing this already.
Who cares what you buy or don’t buy. You’re a fraud.
What more can you give to two centers who take a huge chunk out of your cap?
Get it boys!!!! Be confident, talk shit, back it up and make tampa pay!!! Win it for Fleury!!!
I thought the Pens got a huge emotional lift from Fleury being in net.
Apparently not enough. Need more cow bell!!
Murray please.
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Hornqvist: “It’s no doubt in my mind we’re going to come back here for a Game 7.”
“I believe in my team, I believe in myself,” Malkin said. “We’re coming back to Pittsburgh for sure.”
sounds like a guy with no confidence.
How can he have confidence when his captain has been a passenger for largely the entire playoffs?
Canadian tourist!
The only thing the russian is coming back to Pittsburgh is to pack his shitt an go to Russia this summer
So Malkin has guaranteed a win?
Malkin ain’t Messier and Malkin might want to show up for this series, he’s been shite.
Agreed. Next to Letang Im more disappointed with Malkin than anyone.
Both Letang and Malkin have done tons to hurt… Malkin has hit the score sheet but he’s worked equally as hard nullifying the positives coming from that offence.
I’m so fucken mad at Letang right now. Guy needs to change his tampon and stop acting like a goddamn bitch. I don’t give a fuck how much he “can” help he’s doing more to hurt right now. Maybe it’s the additional minutes I dunno but he’s imploding again!
Malkin will show up with some sweet dangles and an offensive zone penalty. I’m thinking Letang will show up with unable to distribute the puck on the PP and double minor for tripping and giving the ref a piece of his mind on his way to the box.
Got to get Letang off the PP. How could it be so obvious to the casual fan but the coaches not see it, or more likely not be willing to do what’s right. Letang sucks north of the redline with the puck on his stick.
check that, north of his own blue line.
Because it’s not obvious to people that know and understand what they are watching.
Oh, this should be good. Tell us jay, what does Letang bring to the PP?
That’s garbage. 87,71 and 58 all deserve a shitton of blame. But nobody has been a bigger joke than 87. Again. He’s basically left handed Brandon sutter. $12 million for that. God bless Phil Kessel though.
I think it’s hilarious! I mean it’s a bold statement from one of the three significant salaries that has done minimal to help the team move forward.
are we sure he wasnt misquoted due to the foreign accent. Sam has that issue all the time.
Not sure, now that I’ve found the quote it does seem like it’s more a of a reply to someone asking if he thought the Pens could win vs him flat out making the guarantee.
Before he guaranteed a win h should’ve guaranteed he won’t take a penalty in the offensive zone
are any of you guys happy knowing that the pens have st.bleury signed for 3 more years and malkin, letang, and crosby all signed until 2022? that is a depressing thought.
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There will be a move anyway… One or two bodies are probably gone this summer. Not sure how that will change the overall dynamic of the disappearing playoff acts but with the significant moves made last year I can’t see them going forward status quo with the “core” if they go out this way again!
Blow this mutha fuckah SKY HIGH!!!!!
I’m happy knowing what a fraud you are.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/news/sidney-crosby-penguins-captain-stanley-cup-playoffs-lightning/1tgp5pdu6exwd1656re20pd59q?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Can’t disagree with any of it. This team is lucky with its 1 cup to an injured Redwings team.
What’s great is the people shitting on MAF for the Killorn shot which was simply a great shot are the same that let Murray off the hook for his stinker vs Williams in Washington! The inconsistency in argument is hilarious.
Both goaltenders were off their angles and allowed good scorers to land very well placed shots
Not me. Both goals sucked. What’s laughable is that you think Killorn’s shit was great. What was great about it, the fact he hit the net from outside the hash marks?
What’s hilarious is you see the fact that it was a bad angle as a sign that it wasn’t a great shot. The velocity and placement from that angle is exactly why it was a great shot genius! Christ most guys dont make that shot 99 times out of 100… It was well placed from a shit angle. It was still poorly played but it was a terrific shot. This isn’t even up for debate and even you can’t be this dumb to not admit that
http://m.thn.com/blog/watch-alex-killorn-jumpstart-lightning-offense-with-perfect-shot-past-marc-andre-fleury/
Ok, great shot, bad goal. How about that. Short side over the shoulder from that angle is a BAD GOAL in any league.
I wasn’t arguing it wasn’t a bad goal to give, I was commenting on the hypocrisy of the defence of one goalie for a bad goal by some while they have been very vocal about the one last night!
I agree that goal was garbage. Fleury said it as much.
Jay Beagle’s backhander in game 4 says hello.
Gives me tons of confidence knowing the pens don’t know who to start in goal in decisive game. Great.
Word on the street is that Guerin likes Jarry as a prospect better than Murray and is in favor of moving Murray and riding out the remainder of the Fleury contract till Jarry is ready.
murray isn’t a prospect. he is a good NHL goalie. for his sake, i hope he gets traded out of this garbage organization. the pens fans deserve a joke like fleury.
You’re a fraud.
Link or it was never said
i think the pens will trade murray this offseason though.
That’s because your a drama queen
*you’re
You mean Sesame Street?
Fleury named the starter yet?
Dusty must be a Tampa fan.
Letang moins quatre
And all of a sudden, theres a lot of activity on TIOPS.
Not to change the subject from Yoda’s delusional rants but Bennett didn’t look completely useless last night and was a considerable upgrade over Sheary.
So I wasn’t the only one who noticed
I’m guessing there wasn’t many of us.
I got into an argument with some dumbass who preferred Sheary over Bennett because Bennett gets hurt so often! Love the fan base some days lol
Disagree with both of you. Bennett was fine but what you see is what you get. Bennett is t going to affect the outcome of a game. Sheary has in the past and could. I’d dress 7 damn and 11 forwards. If not, Sheary over Bennett.
Sheary has been invisible since Washington. Even getting him off of sids line didn’t rekindle the spark. He seems in over his head. The pens scored a goal last night that was built off an excellent shift by Bennett. Pressure was created and maintained, Bennett just got off the ice as the second goal was scored. Sheary has had none of that ability to sustain pressure like that in quite sometime. End of the day no one is calling Bennett a game breaker, Sheary isn’t either but the difference is Sheary hasn’t been good for sometime, could be the inexperience… Read more »
you’re right I havent been paying attention. Nailed it.
Interestingly enough I said “if” so I will take this as admission that you just talk without knowing what’s going on more times than not 😉
btw, if bleury starts tomorrow, they will lose for sure, and then i will kill yoda off again. yoda will not return until bleury is off the roster. it will probably be 10 years from now, but i won’t follow the pens again until that day happens. i’m not supporting a team who plays their adopted son over their playoff MVP.
You’re a fraud.
Stop playing a part on this crappy forum, be rational and not so over the top. I’m not a MAF fan either I think I made that clear in the past but he’s been better the last 2 seasons. I don’t agree with them starting him either, he’s been cold on the shelf for over a month and coming back into the playoff inferno, not the wisest of choices.
Can’t help himself. He’s a fraud.
Or you could just be a nice guy and do us all a favor by leaving regardless.
i’m going to wait until tomorrow.
Now I know Yoda is clueless, he thinks Fleury played forward and started over Kessel.
Sam. Tell us some more about how great Letang is.
I can tell you how great the Russian was last night with his offensive zone penalty again
So you’ll criticize one of the better forwards on the team last night because of 1 offensive zone penalty but you won’t criticize the defenseman who was a complete trainwreck or the forward who was virtually invisibe the majority of the game? You just never cease to amaze.
Haha PK Subban for Kris Letang straight up. As stupid as it sounds that could actually be something realistic.
Not sure about the 9 million hit, but if they ate it to even out the exchange there could really be something. I hate Subban though lol
Subban sucks he is overpaid and can’t play defense at all. But he does have a good shot that’s about it letang is more of a complete defense then that jungle dude
Not a change in hell I’m paying 1.5M more for basically the same player, might as well just give Letang a raise and stick with what you know.
Im starting to chnage my mind and think the Pens should keep Fleury in next. If they are going down might as well do down with “the core” leading the way. Why expose a winner like Murray to another playoff series loss at the hands of “the core”.
I don’t agree with that, but it’s a valid point. I just feel like at this point, 2 games away from the cup, you don’t worry about exposing or hurting feelings. But I can see where you’re coming from too.
in a real life situation, you would obviously start murray. the thing is, they honestly treat fleury like he is their son. there was no reason for them to let fleury pi$$ away the game last night. it was an unnceccesary gamble in hopes that their son would be there hero. the pens are goofy. bleury will be in.
Unnecessary gamble??? You’re such a fool! They had an unexperienced, young goaltender who was showing signs of fatigue and play regression, it was an calculated risk to make the switch to the veteran goalie who had a career year to see if he could add a spark and it didn’t work, there was nothing unnecessary about the switch.
.923, 9-4.
What’s wrong with you schaff? Your smarter than that. Yoda’s post has zero reality in it at any point.
Jay I think he was responding to Diego not Yoda. Anyway I just want them to win, no weird experiments with the roster.
Maybe your right. Maloni’s post does have some rational thought in it so schaff’s response would definitely fit that context.
hahaha! what is so irrational about saying that the pens blew it by starting st.bleury? you are a homer yinzer who thinks bleury is his son.
Was responding to DiegoPittFan Jay lol
don’t worry, fleury will be in the net. after the decision was made to play their kid in game 5 instead of the better player, they can’t go back to murray. it will make them look silly and it will make bleury look even worse. they won’t embarrass their son like that.
Sullivan has a tough decision – thats all I know
it’s not sullivan’s. it’s moreheist’s, mario’s, and rutherford’s. and what is so tough about the decision? it seems pretty easy to me.
Fraud
Fraud.
If you look at the other teams that were contenders in the west, with the exception of Dallas, they all have at least three guys on the back end that could easily play 25 minutes a game and support each other. I know nobody wants to hear it, but the team is really missing Pual Martin.
Well as same said few articles ago it’s matter of time the defense is exposed and vulnerable and more they are going far in playoffs each game is starting to show and the Dailey injury made it even worst
Got to give a lot credit to JM he is one of the best defensive coaches in the league and to him making this owns defense look good until 3rd round is a big accomplishment I doubt other coaches would have success with the garbage defense we have
Owns! Owns!
“A matter of time
Before the defence is exposed” – losing Daley was not a minor loss, it was significant… We are not exposing anything as much as we have a significant hole on the back end genius
Pens may need to rebuild their D but they gave up only 25 shots last night. Fleury let in two turds and made one exceptional save. Letang was terrible but you cant hang that loss on the d.
we didn’t have to analyze and nit pick the D when murray was in net did we. after all these years can you see a trend?
Sure you did, you were the first person on here with an excuse for every puck that went past Murray. I’m pretty sure you were the 1 who blamed Letang for pinching with a 2-0 lead and 10 minutes left.
murray is 9-4 with a .923. stop acting like he stunk.
Your ability to cherry pick is rivalled only by your obnoxiousness! The team has a .879 sv% this round. So yes Murray had been solid… Until recently. With MAF, despite how well he has played in the previous two years you focused on a smaller sample size to make your case yet you’re blatantly ignoring the same thing here. Why are you such a dishonest piece of shit eveyday you breathe? I mean I think playing the cold tender was a mistake personally. MAF should have got games in round two of they planned on trying to get him games.… Read more »
Sid did the little things last night, so thats good.
How does his play stack up to the Toews Intangible Index?
Letang not sully player plans his moins quatre kill pens like sam do hot dogs he traded next year not now cuz marios selling but mark my words last time i check apparently i tough he exited about leaving for juniors in canada
You guys think this might be malkins last year with the pens
Malkin and possibly MAF. They’re not going to let the golden child Crosby go, he’s their meal ticket. MAF would be a cap and expansion draft casualty. Letang will be back as their is no one on the roster or in UFA that can eat up his minutes, even with all his flaws.
Good answer now convince that to clowns like npl,stan an others that think malkin will retire here just because he has no trade clause
Montreal and pens are going to swap defenseman
what makes you guys so certain a team will want to pay fleury 6 million? after last nights performance, it is looking more and more like the pens will be stuck with him. nobody wants him, especially at age 31.
Yes, despite him being the one of two reasons they were not on the basement by the time Sullivan was hired as team like Calgary has no need for a goalie like him. You’re such a fucking idiot
fleury is the pens golden child, not sid. the papers will be critical of crosby, not of fleury. fleury gets the ultimate free pass. he gets to play game 5 out of nowhere just becasuse he’s a good guy.
Out of nowhere…lmfao
MAF before Geno.
MAF and a core member I bet. MAF simply because of the expansion draft
MAF didn’t really do anything to be chased out, it’s like a Tom Brady/ Drew Bledsoe situation. Something is going to have to give and Balth made the perfect point with the expansion draft looming.
I think letangs and MAF – send the french fries packing since they stunk up the joint in the biggest game of the year
Whelp before I go all negative on this franchise for the summer their is 1 game left in the Penguins season. Let’s see where the boy take us, its either to the golf course or game 7.
MAF and Hamilton have the same exact cap hit…JUST saying. Regardless of if they move a goalie in the off season, they NEED a minute eater to help Letang. He’s obviously taxed.
There’s no denying I’m a big Letang guy but clearly the overtaxed minutes have him physically and mentally exhausted, his play has been hot garbage for several games and and with Daley done it doesn’t look good for him getting a minutes reduction.
Exactly. And we honestly don’t have another top 4 defensemen type, just a slew of lower pairing guys. Dumo might be the closest.
As I said few articles ago it’s a matter of time pens Defense becomes more vulnerable
Letang and daily been main reason balancing the D other then that you have Gayjoy that you can’t play him a lot minute due to be exposed then you have mattaa nhl’s slowest defense. You have Shultz that is a nightmare to watch in the Dzone dumoulin is the closest to be good as the Dailey but sill has long way
I saw a take on the Killorn goal earlier that really shows have biased perception makes it impossible for most fans to truly understand the game of hockey, if that was a Kessel goal on Vasilevskey every Pens fan would be swinging from Kessel hairy beanbags talking about what an amazing snipe it was, instead because it was Killorn on Fleury it was a horrible goal. An unbiased observer would recognize that it was actually a combination of both, Fleury didn’t play the shot well but it still took a perfect shot from Killorn to score the goal, both factors… Read more »
The Killorn goal was a great shot, period! We seen Murray beat by then and it’s all good, happens with MAF in the net and it’s fodder for idiots. No MAF wasn’t sharp… That’s a function of two months of missed play not how he has been playing in recent playoff memory. Even with that there were plenty of opportunities to ice the game, no shows or detrimental shows from big names again!
Weird, the OT winner was deflected… Off Johnsons ass lol
Nope I won’t believe it. Yoda told me Fleury was going to let 1 in and he did, never would have bounced off Johnson if Murray was in net.
keep making excuses for the Mental Midget. How many Fleury jerseys hang on the wall of the bar you work at Jay?
You wanted him in there. Good call. You, madden and Kingerski. Great company.
Oh. And simply dusty. Keeps getting better!
It would be hard to swing from Kessel’s beanbag since he only has one in his bag. But you are exactly right.
That why I said beanbag and not beansbag.
My mistake. Jay nailed that as well.
Big changes coming this off season. Win or lose, playing a rusty MAF was a terrible decision but the fact that we have got net to nothing from Geno or Sid… Or Letang for that matter most of the post season is a biggest problem. One of them will be moved this summer you can just feel it!
This noted… The TEAM save % is .879 this series… MAF has played and lost only one game. I don’t think he was great last night but at the end of the day with that stat it’s hard to say that Murray would have got the guys out with a W. Reading the plethora of typical post game commentary I see that stat tiptoed around… Why?
You really don’t know why no one wants to talk about the .879sv%?
Oh of course I do, it’s rhetorical.
But Fleury doesnt give the team a better chance to win does he? Stats and advanced analytics are for neophytes who dont know what they are watching. Kilorn’s goal wa s abad goal. Classic mental midget fell apart after he gave up that goal.
MAF made some big saves but man, he looked shaky at times too. Is all the rust off for the biggest game of the season? This coach has a big decision.
I hope you are smart enough to know the answer is malkin
the pens organization is easily the dumbest organization in sports. they have a rookie who takes them to the conference finals, who is 9-4 with a .923%, and they replace them with the proven playoff trainwreck (their son), because they can’t take the thought that somebody will out perform their country club buddy. he is their son who needs to pitch in the championship little league game. we’ve all seen it before. bleury is the coach’s, Gm’s owners son.
Your easily the dumbest hockey fan in the world, they had a rookie goalie who has been very average over this last 6 games and went to the veteran who was their best player last post season and arguable their MVP this season to try to spark a team that was trending in the wrong direction and was in danger of losing control of the series either way. Calculated risk that didn’t work out.
trending in the wrong direction? the lost one game in a row.
It really shouldn’t amaze me but somehow it still does that so many people aren’t able to process what they are watching when they watch the games and just how little of the game they can actually process.
how can i not process what is going on? go read my posts from last night. the pens were up 3-2, i said bleury was letting in one more and the pens need 4 to win. guess what, that happened. i also said the pens need to score quick because bleury is so shaky he is giving up the 1st shot in OT. guess what, that happened too! i’m able to process things so well that i’m calling the game before it happens! guess what, i’m not a prophet either, i’m just not blinded by fatherly love towards bleury!
Read everything you just posted and then consider the reality that the winner in OT was a lucky bounce that using your own words ” no goalie in the NHL was saving”. After you come back to reality go back and read all your post from last night and realize that everything you posted has been said about Murray this series just as every goal that was scored last night has had similar goals scored on Murray throughout the playoffs. The reality is that Fleury wasn’t good last night but there’s plenty of blame to go around and with Murray’s… Read more »
What’s the game look like at the bar where you work in suburban Pittsburgh ?
That post says it all.
I must have a very different definition of the word excellent than most other people, Murray has had 1 excellent game since the Rangers series and that was Game 3 against the Caps. There’s absolutely no doubt that Murray has the net in Game 6 but anyone who says they have any faith in Murray with the way the team has been playing either has no clue what they’re watching or is just flat out lying to themselves.
you are a st.bleury fanboy. you got what you wanted. st.bleury started and he sucked just like i told you. so now the excuse you put out there is murray was playing bad. hahahahaha! 9-4 with a .923% seems pretty good to me.
.879 for the team this series… Murray has contributed nearly four whole games of this himself. Don’t ignore this because it means something.
I agree with Sam, the loss is all on Beau Bennett. He injured yet?
Bennett was far better than Sheary was
pens will win the series if they go back to murray. i still think the organization would rather lose with fleury in there than let another goalie play better.
Last night’s game ends no different with Murray in net and if they play that way again in Game 6 it will end in another Pens exit regardless of which goalie is in net.
You are a moron.
How can you be absolutely certain the outcome would have been the same?
DK complains the superstars are missing. too bad murray was playing like a superstar. 1st goalie to take them to the conference finals since vokoun. the fleury fanboy love in this town is hilarious. st.bleury falling apart was so predictable. what a joke organization.
Fraud.
Spot on …our Big 4 as DK said in his site went missing
dude, the big 4 have been missing since the rangers series. how convienient to have the big 4 article the day after st.bleury blows game 5. the big 4 were missing and it didn’t matter because they had a goaltender who was carrying them. you got your wish, st.bleury was back in and he sucked.
Not sure who your post was directed towards….I could care less who is goal and never asked for fluery…the whole team stunk it up last two games and Sid and Geno’s lack of production is troublesome…. you were spot on with your calls on fluery…..congrats!
Pens have lost three of five… Kessel has been the reason the series is still going… If it wasn’t for the HBK line this team would be done already. Don’t be stupid
Sid frustrates me when he won’t shoot.
2 superstar centers go missing for the playoffs and MAF just being MAF.
Go with the horse who rode you here. Start Murray, no matter what!!!!
the won’t. fleury is there son. your son always has to start the big game and if he sucks it’s everyone elses fault.