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The Penguins had some note worthy news prior to the drop of the puck in Saturday’s 4-3 shootout win over the New Jersey Devils.
Almost anytime following a bad loss, we’ve seen Mike Sullivan shake up his lines and go with more balance, hence, what we saw last night in the HBK line being reunited and Matt Cullen moving up to left wing on Sidney Crosby’s line.
“I really believe we’re at our best as a hockey team when we have the balance through the lineup,” Sullivan said. “We like the balance, so when we put Phil with Bones and Haggy, we have some real elite talent on three different lines that presents some challenges for our opponent.”
Pittsburgh went on to outshoot New Jersey 49-30, with a 33-24 edge in 5v5 shots and 53-43 edge in shot attempts at even strength.
While Devils coach John Hynes cited the Penguins having a lot of “B” shots, the line changes accomplished Sullivan’s goal of getting pucks from anywhere on net.
The HBK line was held goal less but Hagelin (4 shots), Bonino (4 shots) and Kessel (3 shots) combined for 11 even strength shots when on the ice together.
When Matt Cullen – Sidney Crosby – Conor Sheary were on the ice together, Pittsburgh drove possession on 65% of their shot attempts (22/12).
The Guentzel – Malkin – Rust line didn’t produce a lot of shots, combining for 3 even strength shots, but the line produced the Penguins first goal of the game, Jake Guentzel with a rebound in the crease from 8 ft out for his third goal of the season and fourth point in four games.
What didn’t change with the line changes was a 4th line bleeding shot attempts. Scott Wilson was on the ice for 4 shot attempts, 10 against, Eric Fehr and Tom Kuhnhackl both with a 31 CF% in the game.
The Penguins, though, got a great individual goal from Kuhnhackl to take a 2-1 lead in the second period.
The Kuhnhackl goal came with Kuhnhackl on the ice with Guentzel and Evgeni Malkin.
Also in this one you saw what’s been a key difference between Marc Andre Fleury and Matt Murray.
Murray allowed two softs goal in the win but he continues to be superior in stopping Grade-A chances.
This was especially the case after the Devils went up 3-2.
Dumoulin sits & Latest Extension Talk
Penguin coaches decided on the flight back to Pittsburgh from Minnesota that the team would make Brian Dumoulin a healthy scratch for Saturday night, certainly a newsworthy move when your No. 1 pairing defenseman from last spring’s Cup run and the start of the season is a healthy scratch.
“As far as Brian was concerned, we felt his game has struggled a little bit of late,” Sullivan said. “Sometimes as a young player, it’s not a bad thing to watch a game from up top. I think it offers a really unique learning experience. Brian Dumoulin is a good player. He’s going to be a big part of this team, but we felt as though it was an opportunity for him to maybe take a step back.”
How Dumoulin was viewed in the organization this past summer is that he provided the Penguins Paul Martin type play on the backend for $4 million a year less during the Stanley Cup run and the Penguins have felt they’ve found Kris Letang’s long-term d-partner.
Dumoulin has taken an obvious step back this season but the Penguins view of him being a top-pairing defenseman or second pairing hasn’t changed.
Where things continue to get tricky, though, is what Dumoulin’s next contract should look like.
Dumoulin while a strong puck mover with excellent instincts, doesn’t produce points and is averaging 0.18 points per game in his career.
The difficult part has been finding some comparables to Dumoulin.
From a cap hit standpoint not term, one scout mentioned Arizona’s To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
murray in net tonight. pens will win 4-2.
He’ll give up a quick goal…again…and you’ll remain silent…again…because your’e a #FRAUD
murray is in the top 5 in goalie categories and he is 7-1. there is nothing fraudulent with those stats. chief fraud #1 is st.bleury. aka marc fraudre.
Notice how again he completely ignored the premise of the post which was Murray giving up an early goal on 1 of the first 5-6 shots of the game, something Murray has now done in 4 of the last 5 games and is something he claims kills the team when it happens to Fleury, and quickly changes to subject to something different and acts like he isn’t dodging his own dumbassary and that we don’t notice. Hence the proof of being the biggest FRAUD on the planet.
Exactly – how DARE we go by his own litmus test…which doesn’t hold up. #WorldClassFraud
Notice? He might as well have that flaw tattooed on his forehead. Guys probably the biggest hypocrite I’ve ever had the misfourtune of speaking with
Chief Fraud #1 is you.
Yoda how many shots on goal until Murray gives up first goal
Avoiding the Kessel question again. Embarrassing.
what’s the kessel question? i usually don’t pay attention to what you post so i must have missed it.
Well of course you don’t – the bulk of it is over your head. You’re lucky your feeble mind notices that there’s more than a goalie on the ice.
I’m sure that will be almost as accurate as your 4-1 prediction in the last game he started.
DID YOU KNOW
Ian Cole has 3 assists this season. ALL THREE are game winner assists.
DID YOU KNOW
Shitt Stain is the Dumbest person this season on this site
I highly doubt many people would agree that i’m dumber than you – you can’t even put a sentence together – and you refuse to shower. Try again, Samwich.
Maybe, maybe not depends which pose members take your side of its people like gaydogg then he is as dumb as you since he finds you and npl top 5 best knowledge people on this site. If you are not the Dumbest here then you sure are the most annoying poster on Internet history.
Is it annoying because I can put a sentence together and you can barely read? Is that why?
Just this season!
Yeah just this season because fat slob npl gave his spot to you since he busy with 15$ minimum wage and black lives matter protests
Boy sam, you’re killing it. Now – seriously – have you noticed Kessel yet? Or are you still struggling with his near point per game pace – you’ve been dodging the question 4 days now.
Yeah point per game how many of them are pp points how many of them are 2nd assist. On most nights he is invisible. Yeah he gets points here and there but Doesn’t define he is playing amazing. But then again you at all about stats not only the other contributions that’s why u picked kessel over sid. For playoff mvp
#Scorebox
So…he’s lucking himself into being a point per game player – that’s your contention – he’s on Art Ross contention pace, and it’s all 2nd assists and power play points (which i guess don’t count). Kessel WAS the playoff MVP. They don’t win the Wash series without him, as Sid was back to massaging your back fat.
No you fool letang was the best player in that series and sid canceled Backstrom in that series but a fatty cheering for chubby makes sense so I know where you are coming from. Hope this summer you can attend that fat slob hot dog contest with npl and admire your American hero Joey chesnutzzz. Who knows maybe kessel might drop by and compete for that dumb asss event. Only in the states. Man Americans are weird with npls vocabulary
Oh yes – Sid cancelled Backstrom. The best player in the game, as you say, was able to mitigate a top 20 center. Very impressive. Lives in montreal! Pretends to know the game! doesn’t notice kessel is a point per game player! what a keen eye you have. Letang didn’t even PLAY in one of the games. More Sam! MORE!
So if I’m understanding you point correctly, most of Kessel’s production comes from powerplays and 2nd assists and you haven’t noticed him all season, so does that mean that you don’t watch when they are are the powerplay and that you only watch the last 2 people to touch the puck before it goes into the net? I’m really confused by how else you could not notice him all season despite his production.
Can somebody get a hold of Benny and ask him how trading Cutch and Harrison is supposed to increase their chances of going to the WS next year?
They’ll do what they did with Walker: Not get anywhere near fair value but still take the best they can get because the team is so hell-bent on trading them.
letang is a +8 when murray plays. he is a -13 when st.bleury plays.
And that’s clearly Fleurys fault
They’ve also scored 10 goals in MAFs last ten starts
Letang is a career +50…. MAF played most those games!
that’s because the saint gives up a goal in the 1st minute constantly and then the pens are playing from behind. it’s no accident. question….how does it feel to be in a cult and to be a tattle tale?
Well that’s completely negated by the fact that Murray has given up an early goal in 4 of his last 5 games putting his team in early holes in all. Interesting how you didn’t mention that as being a charastic that both goalies have exhibited lately.
Why bother trying to hit him with facts… he is immune to most and the ones he does seem to catch he completely misunderstands
I just like pointing out how ridiculously dumb his post are, not that everyone can’t figure that out for themselves.
How does it feel to continually miss the fact that what I did is exactly what you were doing from that page but now you are sitting here crying like a ***** about it? and I looooooovvve it
i’m not crying about it. just reminding you that you are a puss-y
No, youve been crying since I did it and you ignore the fact that you were doing the same thing hypocrite. In fact you even did the martyr thing you do and it was very funny to me. Kill yourself.
Ballsy of a self proclaimed pee pee aficionado to call someone else a pusssy
Not to mentioned the over-dramatic exits he has made like a half dozen times on this page. If I had a nickle for everytime his tantrums led to a “I am leaving here forever” rant I would probably have…. a half dozen nickles at least
I mean anyone that’s been watching knows how bad letang has been letting Fleury down yogurt.
Letang hates Fleury. Pure Jealousy. There can be only one French puke on the team.
They probably have trouble working together because they both refuse to shower.
why do i get a -3 for writing a fact?
It’s probably the pee pee thing.
Do those numbers reflect the goal Letang scored on Murray the other night, Is that a plus or minus ?
NPL has been busy saving his money for onw of these http://miami.craigslist.org/search/for?query=hot%20dog%20cart&srchType=T
I knew that fat slobs was up to something
Kessel – you notice him yet? Please reconcile.
It’s not a coincidence that Hillary lost and NPL disappeared.
They’ve been working Stein over asking her to get re-counts in PA and Wisconsin. The Clinton fund will pay for it.
Really going out on a limb there.
Wow Panthers fire their coach
Hard not to blame Ladd Hudler for failing to pay dividends.
WOW… left the guy to catch a cab back? Good job FLA lol
And you thought Gauthier was bad
I’m super excited with the back to back games coming up. That means we get to see the patron saint in one of them. The over or under betting line is now 4 GAA when the Saint plays. I’m betting the over.
You’re excited for more pee pees
Stanch, which name tag are you going to wear to work tomorrow? Big day at the “office”. Lots of donuts sold Monday after TG.
Think of me when you’re scrubbing your wife’s messy dump clean after she goes to work to support you, Maloni. Hey. The world needs ditch diggers too.
Do ditch diggers wear name tags like yours?
I mean. Questions like that tell me what you’re scrubbing toilets for a living.
So true. I need to work on that.
GAME WINNER ASSIST UPDATE
Ian Cole currently RUNNING AWAY with it:
Cole – 3
Hornqvist – 1
Kuhnhackl – 1
Cullen – 1
Wilson – 1
Schultz – 1
Maatta – 1
Sestito – 1
Fehr – 1
Malkin – 1
Rust – 1
Crosby – 1
#America
Don’t see Dumo on the list… good for the contract talks
I’m sure JR has mentioned to him that he needs to get his GWA numbers up. I sure would be.
here is the difference between myself and the social just warriors on this site. i think their opinions are dumb so i laugh and joke about it. they think my opinions are dumb, so they email web moderators and tell them to block my posts because i go against the status quo and it upsets their fan boy outlooks. who has the issues and who are the women?
Jesus christ – get off of your fucking pedestal. nobody cares about your like bitchh fight. literally no one.
who emailed anyone.. I put it out for all to see without hiding anything moron.Youre not a victim so stop trying to martyr yourself you bitch
school girl sjw
Whats really cute in all this is your lack of understanding what a social justice warrior is. Par for the course from you.
You should thank him if true – standing up for your rights to see all those random pee pees.
i’m not hiding anything. i called dk a fleury fan boy after he called me a liar. that’s why i was banned. the only thing you did with your post was confirm that you are the tattle tale monster. if i saw DK on the street i’d make fun of him for his love of the smiley faced saint. you act like he is a god or something and is on some high and mighty pgh throne. who cares. it’s ice hockey, it has no impact on real life. you really don’t get it…at all.
LOL, Ya I bet you would. The irony here is that you bounce back and forth from his page to here to tell the class whats going on and it was fun. I returned the favour and you’re all butthurt acting like a martyred diva lol. Both you and Maloni keep down playing the “significance” of this page but are fired right up this. Its gold to me.
This isn’t the playground… We aint on the streets. You act like I broke a sacred trust, all I did was fire you under a bus for being obnoxious doing the exact same **** you were doing on DKs page to here lol
P-u-s-s-y.
Coming from you? LOL Don’t you have to ask your wife for permission for everything?
If you are not careful maloni I will end up losing all the respect I have for you that we build up all this time lol. Seeing as there was confusion on this before.. you three amigos… ya I never gave a fuck about. Its just one of you is substantially worse than the others
3 amigos Stain, zeroTool an gaydogg those 3 always have something to say about anyone’s comments. Npl I did not include because he is an idiot on his own different level
Unless you’re ready to come clean about Kessel, shut up. Mr hockey over here hasn’t noticed a point per game player! Sam!
This coming from a guy that struggles with the fact that this team just won a cup with the stars on the roster that are playing at roughly a ppg pace. It’s the unabashed idiocy that garners the comments.
I’m glad yoda has finally found something to talk about that doesn’t involve Fleury or the litany of pee pee’s he’s seen.
LOL, unexpected positive side effect
breaking news: zerocool asked DK if he can give him a sucker so he can feel better. his feelings are hurt. hahaha!
breaking news D is really upset about yoda telling the world about his pee pee
you are too dumb to understand a metaphor.
HAHAHA… Here is the definition of not understanding.. On the other thread you had called me on something to do with Hillary Clinton which was gold because I didnt really get involved in all that here but anyway, she lost in part due to a bunch of out of context leaked information and you are clearly happy about that. So in essence you are being a hypocrite here lol. Its fun for me
The thing you have never seemed to get is that I dont like you, at all. I think you suck out loud so none of what you have to say about it matters although I reiterate, you are really bent out of shape over being outed to the man you have called a hack, fraud, and many other lovely things in the time I have known you. Its quite hilarious
is DK your dad?
Id ask if D was yours but then we would be treading in to breaking the law with your most recent revelation.
D is stepdad of npl
serious question to zerocool. why did you tattle tale to DK? you do realize that makes you look really pathetic. did i go and run like a schoolgirl to depaoli when you told me numerous times to kill myself? of course not! i know the difference between a message board and real life. you need to calm down, fly to colorado, and consume some serious edibles to calm yourself down. take a deep breath. it will be okay. st.bleury was never going to be the goalie forever anyway so you need to start accepting reality.
Why? To be a complete prick. I found your bully cries to be really sad so I thought maybe if one of the bullies that continually shits on DK out here was outed I would get to see an epic meltdown… granted I was pleasantly surprised to see Maloni get bent out of shape to the point of swinging from your pee pee as well. Mostly I was just tired of seeing the same broken record bs day in and out. While I come here for the entertainment that page was enjoyable for talking a break from your idiocy. As… Read more »
who said i was bent out of shape? i think it’s just funny that you outed yourself as a social justice warrior. what i post doesn’t agree with your weird view of reality so you want me gone on another site and you tattled and emailed DK about me because you are a school girl. that is the definition of a crybaby SJW. you look really silly.
“who said I was bent out of shape”? I dunno the two dozen posts on the subject before I even got back online including some narrating what you did in response to a page of people that cant stand you, well except the one guy lol
It was a dickhead move, i fully admit this but it was to you so I dont give a fuck. I literally would not do that to anyone else out here, even sam… thats how much you suck lol
I have to agree, I read that and that despite reading the garbage that some people post and even considering it reply worthy…..who in the hell takes time to “tattle” on a poster from an unrelated site. Pathetic and childish.
Shouldn’t you be out sourcing ******** rumours? “Takes the time” like I had to put in more than 5 seconds of effort lol
Zero just jumped the shark. Dudes dead to me. I’ve never blocked someone but I have no time for candy-ass little girls.
Gold, like anyone has ever given a fuck about your bullshit opinion
zeorcool’s lament: the tattle monster will listen to you when you have something to say. just talk to him or write it down and tell what happened today. but if you or anyone is hurt, please do not delay, go tell your teacher so she can help and make sure you are okay!
No lament, it was an opportunity to fuck you over and expose you as the fraud you are on a good page i didnt want you ruining.. I am fine with eat
oh there he is! it’s the social justice warrior himself! it’s nice how you appoint yourself king on who posts on that site and it’s nice you comment to DK on who’s money he is worthy of receiving. hahaha!
Most of those people hate you already anyway… I just gave that a push lol
On that note it is people like you that killed the conversation on this board… your nonstop BS has led to non-stop BS replies. Its you that killed this board, there used to be many people posting, people that had a clue. We all didnt get along all the time but at least there was conversation to be had… still can with some people out here but even jay dont post as much as he once did and Stan is stuck in the same loop I am, reminding people like you what an ass you are. Keep that in mind… Read more »
hey social justice warrior zerocool, i got a question for you. are you more upset that fleury sucks or that your poster girl hillary clinton lost the election? hahahahaha
I am more upset that your parents are pro-life
and possibly that you live near a fire station
zerocool is buttt hurt because he knows st bleury sucks. Instead of admitting the prophet yoda was right, he goes on the official propaganda site of the pens and throws a complete snitchy social justice warrior move. Hahaha! Don’t agree with the story line, got to flip out and act like a woman there eh zero? Since you are a social justice warrior are you going to call me racist against the French for not supporting your cult leader of are you going to call me white privileged because I have enough money to afford pens season tickets? Hahahaha
Yes on all counts… The best is I have never once balked at telling you what a stupid kunt I think you are… why would you think I was holding back? As for SJW? Which one of us was crying bully the other day? Hey mr victim?
i wasn’t crying about you being a cyber bully. i was laughing at you because you suck at it. dude you are a tattle tale and it’s effing funny as hell!!!! hahahahahahhaha you woman!
Awe poor yoda is taking being outed as a two faced piece of shit really hard lol and its funny as hell hahahahahaha you bitch
Give Dumoulin Oli”s money after the latter is traded along with MAF.
The conversation from the last thread was hilarious, Dejan runs a quality site, has actual sources that provide real information, uses facts to write his articles and the brain-damaged trust of Maloni/Yoda thinks he and the posters on his site a being little girls because they want to keep the site respectable and from turning into a pile of garbage like this site. Really tells a lot about the kind of people they are.
Says the guy who volunteered to an Internet chat room full of strangers that he bangs a different 20-year-old girl every Friday. Get me another beer you loser and try not to bore the shit out of me while you do it.
While you’re boring us why don’t you check out how many of dejan’s minons panned zero’s sissy post.
“Sissy” I have had you two screaming victim since… I believe I played you both well 😉
No respect
lol, “respect” from the guy that wrote the below post. If anything this move has really pointed out the hypocrisy of the guys that regurgitate the same crap all the time lol. Between twisting what is actually said or flat out lying and being hypocritical about virtually everything it’s amazing the move blew up into anything at all lol
if you tattle tale and get pissed because someone has a different opinion than you, you are a social justice warrior. the fact is, you are just butttthurt because st.bleury sucks. instead of unbrainwashing yourself, you do want all minions have done for centuries, you attack the messenger and the prophet. all hail st.bleury! hahahahahaha
HA… this is the guy crying to a room full of people that cant stand him that he is being bullied but when he is outed as a bully to another guy he is shitting on suddenly he is a victim yet again. This is rich #noregrets