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LATEST PENS BUZZ
Sullivan knows pressure internally of 1st 15-20 game run: Seven games in watching Penguins defensively thus far this season, it’s the same old, nothing is changing with the system. Still, hard for Mike Sullivan do much of anything when their top pairing Right D looks to be on a retirement tour at times. System issues, yes, we all know that, but there’s already been some instances this season of questionable effort when things get hard in a game. That’s a bad sign already when the team should still have adrenaline rush of a new season.
The good thing the Penguins are at least still hovering around .500 for now and Mike Sullivan is well aware of the internal guidelines that this group was going to get a 15-20 game run before longer term decisions start coming from upstairs with the lineup, roster. That’s seen Sullivan take a much more-fierce mindset this season in practices and behind the scenes. One high-ranking source said this is the first time in Sullivan’s tenure of Penguins coach where he’s kind of transformed into ‘New York Rangers’ Mike Sullivan where under John Tortorella’s staff To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
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UFA Buzz: A lot of buzz at least locally centers around pending UFA Marcus Pettersson and whether GM Kyle Dubas has the stomach to go term on Pettersson as most league observers view Pettersson as a similar situation as Jake Guentzel last season in that publicly the GM will leave the light on, but things are already tracking towards Pettersson being a deadline addition to someone. Very few believe Pittsburgh values Pettersson enough to go say a 6 x 5 deal or even 5 x 5 that could keep him, but time will tell on that.
A player rival teams are really watching is not Pettersson but To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
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Ross Colton one that got away in Guentzel trade talks?: Colorado made an aggressive, sneaky play for Jake Guentzel last March at the trade deadline. There have certainly been some whispers in the Penguins organization that Kyle Dubas/Jason Spezza put too much stock into their familiarity with Michael Bunting and it wasn’t unanimous by any means to take the Hurricanes offer. Word is one prominent front office member To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
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MORE BUZZ: Was Sunday’s game a classic case of if this is how the team is going to defend most nights, just go down swinging with Joel Blomqvist this season and let him develop as a strong consensus is emerging Blomqvist is too good for the American Hockey League?……..Tristan Jarry is expected to get action in one of the next two games. The organization believes a lot of his early issues are between the ears and there’s been a lot of work off the ice going over tape, ect……..Cody Glass has posted strong underlying #’s that’s seeing him get a little run on the third line and that’s expected to continue tonight. Glass has 6 goals in his last 51 NHL games………Lack of explosiveness in Sidney Crosby’s skating ability becoming a noticeable trend early on? One former NHL player tells me To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
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