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If the NHL doesn’t participate in the 2018 Olympics, league officials are more than confident there won’t be any kind of mass exodus among star players that would be a black eye for the NHL.
Alexander Ovechkin is going to go and some Russians may follow him, Evgeni Malkin among them, but there’s no fear among Gary Bettman and his co-horts in the league office that prominent North American star players and faces of the league like Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane would go if the NHL wasn’t participating.
In fact top league officials don’t believe there would be one North American player that would go. The Russian players going, the league doesn’t really care.
This is the primary reason Gary Bettman is taking such a hard line on the NHL’s desire of not going to Olympics.
If they feared a Sidney Crosby would be going that would lead to others following him, then things may be different.
Penguins on the hunt for a d-man?
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The Penguins brass isn’t alarmed by the Penguins ranking 23rd in the NHL in goals against per game that they are determined to add a defenseman by the March 1 deadline. Like many teams, the Penguins are monitoring a few potential targets and are not ruling out going that route, but the poor goals against numbers is being more attributed internally to just a lack of a consistent commitment from the forwards in playing their own end and defending the neutral zone to the ability we saw late last season.
If the Penguins don’t add an impact defenseman before the deadline, so few are actually out there, what the Bruins and Blues losses last week did show is how reliant the Penguins are going to be again on Kris Letang and why the Penguins chances of repeating will come down to whether the forward group can stay motivated and committed to playing all three zones to the ability they did last spring where the Penguins 200 ft game just transformed at the perfect time into a team that played suffocating defense due to their speed in tracking the puck. It’s rarely been there so far this season, which isn’t surprising.
Maatta – Daley pairing https://t.co/VXdqvbuvdg pic.twitter.com/okXGxAmIc4
— Insidepghsports (@Insidepghsports) January 31, 2017
The Olli Maatta – Trevor Daley pairing got exposed mightily in the Bruins game where Boston had favorable line matches with their bigger forwards against the pairing. Video above, during the third period there was a 40 second shift in the offensive zone for Boston, where the Bruins abused Maatta along the wall as his limitations about big power forwards is going to continue to be there due to a lack of strength, foot speed.
The Penguins would go on to score about two minutes later. This team can hide so much at times.
Long-term Goaltending Decisions being made in the East
The New York Islanders don’t know where they’ll be playing in a few seasons as the Barclays Center is kicking them out, but they are committing to Thomas Greiss as their No. 1 goaltender beyond this season. The Islanders have signed Greiss to a three year extension worth $10 million, per Arthur Staple of Newsday.
Another former Penguin who has shined in goal this season is also close to getting a commitment beyond this season.
The Senators and Mike Condon’s reps have been talking an extension for about three weeks now and a deal is expected to get done soon, somewhere in the $2 million range (AAV).
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Is it possible Murray is wearing two blockers ? Seriously, I’ve never seen a goalie struggle with his catching glove the way Murray does. #cleansave
I hope he sorts that out, glove seemed to be a weakness last year too.
murray’s glove hand definitely is below average. he probably never played baseball as a kid. grant fuhr said in the offseason he would put on a first baseman’s glove and field grounders and scoop bad throws from the shortstop for hours to work on his glove hand. that would be a good idea for murray.
Which handed Murray hurt?
Blocker side.
He even Lets in soft goals 5 hole. His only strong side is his positioning and his chest upper body is bigger than fleury and that’s about it
Murray is way slower then fleury, less mobile and he is only 21 I can imagine at 32 how slow he will be which I doubt he would last that long in the NHL no way he will play more games than fleury
Zerofool is a racist his favorite show is. The Amazing Racist he watches it on a daily basis on YouTube
Calling me a racist despite the fact I’ve not given indication of being one may make you feel better but it’s doesn’t change the fact that we all know you’re a huge stupid fucken racist and have proven it literally dozens of times you stupid fucken racist!
Hey sammich… tell me more how you feel about Malkin and other Russians. How awesome was it to see Simmons win the All-Star MVP?
Just because I find malkin overpaid lazy and talking dumb penalties at times doesn’t make me racist to Russians dummy .to name a few You have Parise Bobby Ryan, Dustin brown that are overpaid and that they are not Russians.
Nope, they are both Americans and you e shown nothing but distain towards Is born players. That’s not evidence that you’re not a cuntt… in fact it shows that if they were not born in my county you pretty much hate them lol. Keep going sammich
*US born
It’s just that the people that you clowns drool on are not what they are seems to be and that they are overpaid overhyped people over the years malkin, DB, Shero Orpig TK all those people you clowns drooled over when I said they are all frauds because end of they they are all overrated because of the Pittsburgh media bandwagon hoopla
The best part of this… I was a very early critic of DB; Shero was terrific in signing deals, had some huge homeruns trading but has a spotty draft record, when the trades started to go meh and he left DB in charge most started to criticize; Orpik was a awesome anchor on this team for years, guy was a heart and soul player that could skate well and keep others honest, he got old and most agreed it was time for him to move on; TK was never anything more than a depth player that struggled to improve on… Read more »
Mc pick TWO!
NPL is busy protesting the new supreme court nominee.
#FatDemocratLivesMatter
Apparently DB is enjoying his trip to bell museum tonight
Apparently sammich doesn’t know no one gives a fuckk about Bylsma or sammiches actual favourite team… you racist cuntt
I am a Racist you mountain goat fuckerr ? This is Coming from someone that lives in Canada’s most racist province.
Yes, yes you are a racist. Now that said let’s pretend that’s true and Alberta is worse than PQ (which it’s not, the recent investigation into systemic issues in PQ is evidence of this). It is meaningless because you have dropped n-bombs and epithets like “camel jockey” then proceeded to blame the victims of a terrorist massacre simply because they share a religion in common, to a degree, with radicals, plus they are usually of Arab, black or Indian Sub Continent which makes them visible to you as well. Yes sammich, you are a stupid fucken racist, dumb, cuntt and… Read more »
Then there is this
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/59-of-quebecers-say-they-re-racist-poll-1.645604
That’s 59% of you sammich… 59% are open about their hate of other races you stupid fucken racist cuntt
In fact sammich here is what I see… Winnipeg seems to be the worst! Then you have a group of BC, PQ an NS. These are traditionally the least accepting… parts of east ON are tossed in their too. Lol, you racist fucken cuntt.
Thumbs down all you want you moron the facts don’t support your claim, especially the one where we have all witnessed numerous racist and other kinds of bigoted remarks from you… because you’re a stupid fucken racist cuntt.
All those provinces are shoved and filled with all kinds of race try living with them and see how they take full advantage of the system I bet you’d think differently. Alberta doesn’t even have as many different nationality and is already a racist.
I already blew this out of the water with
Government pulled statistics you stupid racist cuntt. Alberta has a greater minority population as a percentage of population than Quebec does lol… you’re not just a fucken racist cuntt you’re also hopelessly ignorant!
Pens are really missing their 9.5m 3rd line center
Ya, they lost one bad without him and considering they lost him early in the previous game they lost you’re a little behind in this debate sammich… you racist cuntt
Man, they moved him up to the third line?!?!?
There goes Murray putting the team behind again. Where’s kinkaid?!
d is the best when he uses quotes from people. just fantastic stuff.
>Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan said today Center Evgeni Malkin is making significant progress.
“He’s making significant progress,” said Sullivan.
Malkin was suppose to miss one game now it will be 2 games typical malkin injuries always same story different year injured 1 game no 2 games then becomes a week to week and if he comes back after just 2 games missed he goes back on week to week after
…as letang drools on himself for two weeks and misses time AGAIN. Brittle frog is so. fuckingg. brittle.
We have a French-Canadian goalie making almost 6 mil a year to watch games from the bench and a French-Canadian defenseman making over 7 to hang out at home doing yoga. I wonder what they have in common.
Fleury must got influenced by Howard
“Must got influenced” lol. Just like your buddy must got influenced by you before having a night out in Quebec City hey fuckhead lol
Sad incident happened in Quebec yesterday. But end of the day Fuckk these Muslim camel jockey rag heads playing the innocent victims saying on news why this happened we don’t understand . Yet they blow up and kill all kind of innocent people in Europe. How many tragic event happened in Europe in last 2 years I lost count.
Ya, I couldn’t imagine why I was so easily able to see you in the kid that did this lol… what a fucken piece of garbage you are. “They” because all of “them” are blowing shit up. I am willing to wager you know far less about this entire subject than yoda does most things…
Hilarious, condone and greiss are both > st bleury. The numbers back it. Hahaha! #nobodywantsstsmileyface
Triggered fraud is triggered… again
According to this idiots “logic” Antti Raanta is better than Price lol. Kinkaid is better than Raask.
Yogurt wants Kinkaid over Rask! What a loser!
Also… who is “condone”?
some really bad grammar