After the loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning Sunday night waivers was a strong possibility on Monday for Tristan Jarry. Whispers are head coach Mike Sullivan who even now still regards Jarry as the best goaltender in the organization, bought Jarry one more game. And Sullivan is not the only one. Veteran players in that room looked at Jarry as their best goaltender which is why yesterday had such a somber mood. Tuesday night’s collapse was finally the breaking point where Kyle Dubas took the decision into his own hands and at the end of the day Dubas didn’t want to keep prolonging a failed mistake.

Dubas who said he made the decision he did to sign Jarry within a few weeks on the job and has to live with it, feels the Penguins were at the point where they were forcing the situation.

“I think it’d speak worse of me if it was a mistake, and we prolonged it and continued to try to force it,” said Dubas. “If there are mistakes that I make, I try to rectify them and come out here and face the music.”

“I think we had committed to when he came back from WBS, giving it some good runway,” Dubas said of Jarry…..”Had a good stretch there, won four in a row against good competition and then from my view of it, it was just be patient, see the way that it unfolded and as we got through this date in mind, being important for us because we’re about to go on the road for a couple weeks and felt that would be enough time to measure it. At this point, just feel it’s best in the long run for the team and for Tristan to allow Joel to come up here. We think over the past year and a half with his play in Wilkes and when he’s been up here with us, he’s earned the right to have a go at it and we get a chance to see what he can do in a prolonged look.”

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“The reality is Tristan Jarry is a legitimate NHL goaltender,” Sullivan said. “I don’t think you make the All-Star team twice if you don’t have a certain level of talent and you’re not capable of making timely saves.”

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: Among the burning questions is Dubas gave the vibe this isn’t going to be a situation where Blomqvist is coming up and only plays once out of every four games. Still, the Mike Sullivan factor remains. Dubas does not enforce lineup decisions due to Sullivan’s stature and To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”! Where Blomqvist stood out during his callup earlier in the season was his side-to-side movement and ability against high-danger situations. Yes, the leaky goal or two was sometimes there a game but these were very intriguing attributes of his game, especially during a time where the Penguins were a train-wreck defensively.

High-Danger Save% (All-Situations)

  1. Joel Blomqvist | .875SV%
  2. Alex Nedeljkovic | .772SV%
  3. Tristan Jarry | .762SV%

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Wild Card Buzz Entering Thursday via Points%

  1. Ottawa | 47 Pts, .547P%
  2. Columbus | 48 pts, .545P%
  3. Montreal | 46 pts, .535P%
  4. Boston | 49 pts, .533P%
  5. Detroit | 44 pts, .512P%
  6. NYR | 43 pts, .500P%
  7. Philadelphia | 44 pts, .489P%
  8. Pittsburgh | 44 pts, .478P%
  9. NYI | 41 pts, .477P%
  10. Buffalo | 39 pts, .443P%

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