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TUESDAY’S PENGUINS BUZZ
Mike Sullivan during his time with the New York Rangers was reportedly more hated among players than John Tortorella and it sure sounds like he didn’t make many friends during his one year in Vancouver.
Sullivan might end up being that same guy before it’s all said and done but he’s proven during his stint so far in Pittsburgh the importance of having a good feel of his team. There’s been little to no throwing players under the bus through the media and he’s often protected players.
Sullivan’s comments about Ian Cole after Sunday’s game vs Buffalo was telling.
“I thought Ian was solid,” Sullivan said told reporters. “He kept his game simple. I think he’s good on the penalty kill. He’s a good shot blocker. He was solid down low. I thought he brought a lot to the table for us.”
The Penguins knew on Sunday that Ben Lovejoy was likely going to be out long-term with a shoulder injury and it was smart for Sullivan to talk up a player who he just recently made a healthy scratch for 11 games and could be a little fragile mentally.
With Lovejoy’s injury, the Penguins have just one right handed defenseman among their top-6 but Pittsburgh doesn’t feel a great incentive to go out and get a right handed defenseman like they did last season with the blunder of trading Simon Despres for Lovejoy.
Having five lefties is not seen as a big deal in the organization. The trade market is also slim pickings among right handed d-men.
Among other reasons for being comfortable with five lefties is Trevor Daley being better on the right side and Ian Cole’s experience of playing the right side also helps the situation.
“He’s [Ian Cole] played the right side a number of times,” Sullivan said today. “He played it a lot when he was in St. Louis. Him and I had that conversation and he’s comfortable playing the right side.”
The Penguins list of trade targets among defensemen are mostly lefties and Pittsburgh is exploring rental and long-term options.
Where the Penguins would like to replace Lovejoy is with a shot blocker.
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The French are weird
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Zero cool says I don’t know what’s happening on the ice. That’s funny. I’m the only guy who said the pens are going to miss the playoffs and it looks like I’m going to be right. I saw this roster for what it was. An 8th to 10th place team. The rest of you are homers who love of the pens blinds you from reality. I love the pens too, but an 8th -10th place team is what it is.
lol change your tune again?
Zero isn’t the only one that’s noticed you have no idea what going on on the ice. Two year old trap NHL!
I guess you’re not a broken record… cuz you flip flop as much as anyone. Yes you said they would miss at the start of the year BUT as the team made ground you started to talk about playoffs…. now they lose a bad one and you’re back on this stupid shit. I don’t recall anyone claiming they were 100% in… we all knew that it would be an interesting year but none of us were gonna write them off in September. Now with Geno and Bonino on the way back, I give it a week before you are off… Read more »
Pens are 1-1 against the Caps, 2-1 against the Panthers, 1-0 against the Islanders, 0-1 vs the Rangers. These are the important results.
In b4 yoda lays it a MAFs feet… From another discussion with an idiot that cannot understand what happens on the ice It’s always interesting to see people’s reactions in games like this. MAF was a nightmare handling puck but we were in this until the third because he kept bailing his team out. There were significant cracks in the defensive armour tonight. 1st goal a penalty shot 2nd was that beauty fuck awful pass to Pastrnak who was all alone again 3rd goal Letang leave his post chasing the puck carrier and the Bruins end up with what was… Read more »
Blurry stinks. Get Lalime in there ASAP!
hall of fame goalies are supposed to bail out a bad defenseman. haha!
I’d tell you to actually try WATCHING the game once in a while, but you’ve already proven it wouldn’t do any good. It’s way over your head.
How often?
Thats all you got – lmao
Guy bailed the fucken team out all night you stupid fuck. Hard to keep making those saves when the team works so hard to give the opposition so many prime opportunities. Fuck you’re such a halfwit
Last 7 games, Crosby has 3 points.
His vacation days do not rollover, and he’s hellbent on not wasting them
Worry about chubby
Why? You out of gravy again? I’m more worried about the guy who’s now up to 42 half assed games.
Hes been more reflective of the first 35 games than when he caught that hot streak and people were claiming he was the second coming again.
Bruins outscored pens 14-3 this season I guess pens and their bandwagon fans should start thinking to avoid the Bruins in playoffs
Maybe Canadian teams should start thinking about not avoiding the playoffs altogether.
Yeah because Habs can beat Ranger, caps an Bruins. With ease while pens can’t. So maybe pens need the Habs to do their dirty work in order to go to the finals
If they can beat all of these teams, why are they going to miss the playoffs?
Stan. Go check th stats last 3 years habs vs caps, rags , Bruins a check pens stats vs those 3 teams
What does any of that have to do with now?
What’s your point Sam? Habs are done frenchie! Get on with it!
Answer the question Sam. Why are they going to miss the playoffs if they dominate the good teams?
Why three years?
This is ugly as hell. Missing some big pieces but for fuck sakes… Badly outshoot them through two only to get lit up in the third. We need to add another blueliner… Mobile but responsible. Maatta needs to have a seat for a night. Collect his thoughts… This was an incredibly bad game for him
Of course Maatta can’t sit a game unless they add
Bad game? Try season
He’s talking about the pens. Not the Habs.
I wouldn’t count the 41 or 42 mostly harmless shots they took as anything to be proud of. Maata needs dropped down in the lineup, he’s in way over his head being paired with Letang and has been for awhile. It would be damn near impossible but adding a top pairing Dman is what this team really needs, that bumps Maata down to a more comfortable spot on the 2nd pairing and Dumoulin down to a more comfortable spot on the 3rd and Pouliot down to a more comfortable spot in the AHL when Lovejoy returns.
I’ve thought Maatta looked better when not playing with Letang myself. Their styles don’t mesh well
Sid thinks it’s November again.
Fukking Jewes!
DP needs to stay on his feet there and take away the pass and make Spooner shoot.
Or atleast go down in the passing lane, the kid just has zero awareness on the ice unless the puck is on his stick.
There’s a clusterfuck of blown D coverage. Letang and Pouliot with elite coverage
How much does this PowerPlay miss Malkin?
What a bunch o bandwagon American fans 2nd period and Washington fans leaving the game Alot of empty seats what do you think stan?
That it probably took you ten minutes to type that because you had cool ranch Doritos all over your fingers.
Hahahaha
Does John Forslund’s pronunciation of Bergeron annoy only me?
Trade fleury sam
do we know for sure Same is fat?
Yes that Sam is fat he weights 320Lbs
Kudos for the honesty porkchop.
not me clown your buddy sam /npl10
No no. You. You’re fat.
Only in your wildest dreams
No no. In reality. Porkchop.
Comment of the year right here!
How much does Yodles weigh?
Vote for Jindal
Is America ready for the first Orange president?
how about first fat gay president
Sorry Sam, you have to be American. Maybe you can be the new queen on your country’s failed currency.
thank god i am not american and in a fucked up country with people like Jenner
Just like i said hope Trump wins who knows he might send all you fat people to Africa till you fat pigs starve and lose weight then bring back and be useful by going back to work instead of sitting home and be an expense to the goverment
Whats wrong with Boone Jenner? he has 22 goals this year Sam
“I supported Mitt Romney. He failed…”
“I supported John McCain. He failed…”
“I’m just going to do it myself!” – Donald Trump
I don’t know how anyone voted for those two empty suits.
McCain was a joke, Romney ran one of the worst post-primary campaigns ever – And yet Donald Trump is the biggest joke of all.
He’s not better or worse than the rest of them – he just goes out of his way to not hide it. Kinda like how Bernie shouts to anyone that will listen that he is pretty much a card carrying communist.
Did Jeb Bush win Nevada last night?
This Jeb Bush thing never gets old.
You can clap now
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Rust + 3rd for Gudas + 7th
“Fleury for Yak.” -Yoda
fleury ,for bernier or Miller
Once again yakupov to the habs heating up
Crap player to a crap team. Probably why nobody gives a crap.
The Oilers are gonna want way to much for him. Salary Price tag is okay but he looks more like a bust daily. While I would love to see if we could get him to click in the NHL I wouldnt be willing to pay what the Oilers would probably ask for from us… Murray and or Pouliot. Thats saying something because Pouliot dont look like a sure fire full timer even as he has improved to this point
Chiarelli told to the media yesterday that he would be open to trading one of Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle or Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, but indicated that such a move was more likely to happen in the off-season, if at all.
trade Chubby I would take Hall any day over that lazy bum
at least Hall can skate 5v5 with good stats
Hall is no Marty St. Louis. I’d rather get McDavid from Vancouver.
well in the summer pens had chance if they shipped the russian in a pacakge deal to oilers and got their 1st overall and then pens coudve build a better team instead of bringing chubby to this team .As the smart people know malkins stock is only going down since the 09 but blind clowns like you npl gaydogg still riding him
There was 0 chance of the Oilers moving their 1st rounder in the Connor McDavid draft you stupid fuck. All chatter on that was coming from the Journal not the team
Yep – beat me to it. I like how his stock has only gone down since 09 – even when he won the MVP in 2012. Another great call by our resident “special” child.
Pens had scouts at Flyers game again. Telling you watch out for Michael Raffl’s name. He’d look good on the Pens.
Gudas
It’s not the deadline without Skip’s out of the blue, never going to happen deal proposals.
Or kingpuck pretending to be an insider.
or stan pretending to not be fat
Oh – I’m fat now too? That’s a new one. Especially coming from the guy that can’t see his own junk.
Bonino and Malkin both back Saturday, per “Sully.”
20 scouts were at the leafs game yesterday
1. Los Angeles (2)
2. Pittsburgh
3. Columbus
4. Chicago
5. New York Rangers
6. Calgary
7. Dallas
8. Montréal
9. Détroit
10. New Jersey
11. Washington
12. Boston
13. Nashville
14. Ottawa
15. Winnipeg
16. Colorado
17. Arizona
18. Minnesota
19. Buffalo
Aaron portzline tweeted hartnell and pens rumor is true, not saying there is trade, but rather there is truth to pens reaching out to cbj for hartnell,
I mean, the guy is locked up until he is 36, and they’re not one piece away – the only way this makes sense is if they view him as an upgrade to Kunitz and CBJ takes Kunitz back – even still – that’s a big cap hit for another 3 years after this year. Doesn’t seem like the type of guy they should be looking into on the cusp of the cap ceiling decreasing next year.
Hartnell 3 years younger, yes. Not a fan of that contract. That said he’s still producing at a high level now, not sure about the next few years though.
Not saying it’s not worth a gamble for SOMEONE. Just doesn’t make sense for this team. At least as currently constructed.
Could you even imagine Scott Hartnell in a Pittsburgh Penguins sweater? #CBJ #Pens.
That’s what Portzline tweeted. How do you get “Aaron Portzline tweeted Hartnell and Pens rumor is true” out of that?
Portzline is legit. He called multiplevttades, def has sources. He wouldn’t tweet that unless there’s some truth to the matter.
Ok. But he didn’t say that. You’re misquoting people because you want a deal to happen.
I don’t want a deal to happen. I’m just bringing to light that he wouldn’t tweet that unless there were some discussions being had. Once again, read what I wrote specifically when I said not saying there is a trade
I did. “Aaron portzline tweeted hartnell and pens rumor is true”. He didn’t tweet that.
The only hartnell rumors came from Eklund and D. Both are hacks. Portz could’ve completely shot it down or not make a comment, but he did. His tweets are vague until a trade is in the works.
Ladd might be traded to the panthers
He literally might be traded to 10 teams.
Crickets…
Oleksy recalled.
He’s a horrible offensive forward because he scores goals!
We need a horrible backup goalie that only stops goals from happening
BJ
I can see gmjr landing either a top 4 d or top 6 wing, then making a bone headed last minute move.
Mike Weber… Wanted him for a few seasons. Not the ideal skater but I like the fuck you he brings. He’s a cap
Would you consider a Rychel and Prout for Pouliot and Plotnikov?
Would except we need to get a D man while not giving up one. Even if Lovejoy heals in time. For the playoffs you need 8 and Warfosky is not a playoff defender
I’m gonna put my chips on either Prout from Columbus or Gudas from Philly as our new 6th D -man
That Savard injury tho…
The pulled groin he got from banging your mom? She rubbed that out for him He’s good to go
Nobody bangs NLpples mom and gets away with it.
Nobody has a positive thought about the Penguins and gets away with it.
That joke landed right on top of a hot dog cart.
King
Thanks King! Would love Prout!
I’d love Gudas!
TK with a goal pens need to bring him back where are the droolers. I remember some moron on this site said I had no clue just because I wanted tk gone so bad and was told tk had potential to be top 6. I am sure he is doing good elsewhere
Montreal should pay him to sit in the museum and act like he cares, since their bandwagons don’t.
Remember when sam said;
Franson will be a leaf
Jeb Bush will be president
McDavid will go to Vancouver
The Pens traded Rust and a 3rd
Marty St. Louis was still good (then retired a day later)
Called Wisconsin native Galchenyuk a Russian
Called the Conn Smythe winning Malkin a regular season player
Called Patrick Kane invisible in the playoffs
Called Kessel fat while he weighs 300 lbs.
How could you forget when he said Therrien was a great coach?
yeah and how about half the players you clowns drool to come to pittsburgh either they are healthy scratched today or retired .
What is with your English? Did you stop going to school in 5th grade? My god, for a know-it-all, you can’t even put a sentence together.
Anybody know how we can wake sleeping beauty up to inform him that the deadline is right around the corner?
What would you have him do in reaction to Mike Weber getting traded?
I’d have him say, that’s nice that those 2 teams agreed to that value on Weber…Now here’s my value on a player I want such as Purcell, McGinn or Parenteau.
I did that on NHL16 with no problem. Dont see why JR cant
Because now that toronto and buffalo has set the standard, no other trade will be made outside of it…
lol what gm comes out and discusses random trades through other teams and then gives honest opinions on guys he wants? For better or worse, GMJR seems to know exactly when the deadline and first day of free agency is.
Where is Kingpuck? I know you have something to share. Please ignore thise who don’t appreciate your rumors.
I miss kp insight.
KP had scoop!
Talked to him last week and he didn’t have much.
Like, he hasn’t had time to make anything up? That’s just lazy.
Yeah ignore npl and stan
Pick this week’s dumba$s of the week. The guy who said:
“He blocks shots because he is awful defensively”
Or…
“We need less mobile defensemen”
Good luck gentlemen.
The Savard injury is holding up my vote
I’m going have to go with the first one
The second one is the dumbest thing I’ve read in some time. Less mobile d-men in the modern day NHL!
Pens scouting nashville.
Maybe they miss Neal and they are watching his stupidity that he provides to the other team
This isn’t english. His stupidity that he provides to the other team!
Nashville specifically or just at the Tor/Nash game?
D just assumes it’s toronto. Pens also have track record with poile.
He blocks shots because he’s awful defensively! It’s non stop pucks at his own cage! My God, Russell is terrible, he’s the last guy I want to see.
Sam makes squat cobbler videos
With Shoo Fly Pie!
Lawyer up!
Old man must be asleep
Caps get Mike Weber with Buffalo retaining half salary for a 3rd.
Wow
That’s wow-worthy!
Really hope the prices take us out of this market. All we really have to offer is anaheims second and sundqvist.
We need to add a dman but I hope the prices are too high.
The quants say that Russel sucks. But a lot of teams like him.
Hopefully Cole plays at a level we can work at.
I wouldn’t mind taking on erhoff as 6/7 if lovejoy isn’t back for the playoffs. Way better than blowing assets on russel.
I don’t think this is the year to give up assets.
“Who we’ve reported in the past”… Who is we?
Just reading a bunch of opinions around the web, Russell doesn’t sound all that great. I have no opinion because I’ve seen zero Calgary games.
Haven’t seen much of Russell, but he seems very steady back there and brings attributes this team desperately needs without breaking the bank. That’s also how I would approach the forward situation. Maybe someone like a Purcell who can be used in a couple different ways and doesn’t require a lot to acquire.
Russell is awful, he bleeds shots when he’s on the ice worse than Scuderi. Over the last two seasons in Calgary he’s had the most offensive zone starts by FAR, yet he’s also given up the most shots against, BY FAR, and it ain’t even close! He’s anything but steady, he looks good because he can skate, but his numbers say otherwise.
I can only imagine how bad it would be when you’ll have Russell gayjoy and Kessel on the ice at the same time puck would never leave the D zone
Yeah same way you clowns drooled over Murray too. Or even better scuderi the guy that was on the ice when pens won the cup he was suppose to teach letang some real hockey and be the shut down guy for ovechkin. Classic joke that never gets old.
Who is drooling? And the fact that you think he sucks makes me think he’s really good.
It will be. These asking prices for some of these players is ridiculous. Dale Weise is not worth what is being reported what it will take to get him. Most of these asking prices eliminates the Pens from getting involved.
Pass
This deadline better not be a dud
Why? I hope it is. A 3rd for Weber is ridiculous. They should stay away from the market.
This is true, I liked Weber but the price was high
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