Penguins/NHL
Penguins – 
Jets What We Learned
The Winnipeg Jets and Pittsburgh Penguins both had excuses coming into Tuesday night’s matchup. For Pittsburgh it was the obvious in being down two of their top-3 centers in Evgeni Malkin and Nick Blugstad, to go with top-9 winger Bryan Rust already sidelined. For the Jets, they could have came in and laid an egg without much fuss.
Among the reasons why:
It was the fourth and final game of an East coast swing to start the season and most notably the Jets were dressing a lineup vs the Penguins with their entire defensive corps from the end of last season wiped out.
Yet, it was the Penguins with their entire group of d-men in the lineup, including a seventh defenseman dressed that was the team that put on a display of squirt-level defensive play. The Penguins entered this season when healthy as a wild card level team and that was a common view from evaluators. Despite that, a 4-6 week injury to Evgeni Malkin is still not a death sentence for missing the playoffs. The Penguins did not lose the Evgeni Malkin of several years ago that was one of the best players in the league and this isn’t the NBA where you lose a superstar for a month and you’re likely done. The Penguins can keep their head above water if Sidney Crosby is doing Sidney Crosby things and Matt Murray plays to his ability for a 3-4 week stretch, but the glaring problem short and long-term is just how bad this team is defensively. The blueline from a personnel standpoint is obviously a meh group but the issues are beyond that.
This is such a soft in group in winning puck battles and the constant breakdowns/lapses when they have numbers defensively is just astounding and as mentioned before, this isn’t something that’s just suddenly going to disappear.
Like opening night vs the Sabres, the Penguins were atrocious in their own end against a team in Winnipeg that gave the Penguins fits when pressuring the puck. What played out again is Winnipeg’s forward group had the characteristics of the type of skill/speed team that succeeds in putting the Penguins on their heels defensively which saw a combination of the Penguins’ forwards/defensemen running around with no mindset to play the right way in their own end. This was again the type of style/personnel from the opposition that continues to expose the Penguins defensive structure.
Poor Wall Play, Rotations Haunt Penguins in Loss
“Thought we deserved better,” Sidney Crosby said of the Penguins loss Tuesday night. Mike Sullivan also gave the same type of talk.
“I don’t think the score was an indication of how the game was played,” Mike Sullivan said. “I think the game was a lot closer than the score indicates.”
I just didn’t see the same game……
Crosby was great vs the Jets, and yeah the Penguins dominated in shots and possessed the puck well, but when you make 7-8 catastrophic defensive blunders to the matter the Penguins made, you don’t deserve better and the shot differential is going to mean squat.
Ville Heinola’s 1st period goal saw Erik Gudbranson get worked in a 1-on-1 battle behind the net by Mark Scheifele and Pittsburgh’s poor defensive rotation in defending the cycle gave them no security blanket for when Scheifele made quick work of Gudbranson behind the goal-line.
Here Pittsburgh gets caught with four defenders on the strong side and that’s a disaster waiting to happen against a top line like the Jets have. Jack Johnson and Teddy Blueger both over-pursue towards Patrick Laine leaving them in no-mans land to defend against the situation that plays out with Gudbranson whiffing on Scheifele. Patric Hornqvist the right winger on the line, not only fails to defend the weak side properly, when he rotates as the puck swings behind the net, he leaves the entire middle of the ice open by puck watching and going below the face-off circles. On this shift, Pittsburgh already was at a disadvantage with the likes of Johnson-Gudbranson, Teddy Blueger and Zach-Aston Reese out against the Scheifele line, and most concerning with this team when healthy and not healthy is that it’s just no longer a smart defensive team in reading situations well. 2017 seems so long ago.
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Zach Aston-Reese wall play was something on the Nikolaj Ehlers goal.
What stands out on the Aston-Reese turnover is Justin Schultz already darting towards the blueline when Aston-Reese just gets the puck on the wall. There continues to be more and more evidence of the Penguins needing to scale things back when activating their defensemen.
Later Alex Galchenyuk wanted to get in the mix of having a blooper-reel turnover leading to a goal but this was another situation where after the Galchenyuk turn-over, the Penguins -inexcusably lose another 1-on-1 puck battle down low where Kris Letang looks to be playing flag football and then the forward group again gets caught too low leaving the point-men having a free lane to get a shot on goal with traffic.
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What kind of prison do you guys think Rudy Guliani will end up at? Probably a nice country club type, right?
I’ll let you know once I see where the Clintons go first
No thanks. Youre not the most punctual newsman.
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Hey Npl why dont you promote #walkAway I heard its healthier
instead of the none sense #BlackCocksMatter movement
Love seeing LeBron get wrecked over his comments. Biggest f*cking hypocrite
Holtby was amazing tonight 3 goals on 3 shots
i like the pens way better when malkin is hurt. i kind of hope he stays hurt indefinitely.
Crooked Biden son will be resigning
Np suckss so does the rest of the fat democRATS
Lmmfao… I mean Biden is trash but if you think this carries any meaning? Jfc I thought you were approaching corpse but the single cel things seems more appropriate lol
Happy Thanksgiving America Jr.
In case you guys don’t see ZeroTool
It’s because he went to the airport to pick up that mentally ill child Greta Thunberg
She will be visiting Alberta and try to convince them to vote liberals. Sad way to get by Mr trudeau desperate man in desperate times
You are one sad troll.
That girl would out think you the day after a massive overdose and a hangover…
She’s here to discuss climate, not the election you fucken retard
The partisan nature of said subject is an unfortunate reality of today’s world, that’s the only overlap but, you’re and incredibly stupid fucken human being so… it’s not like you have the capacity to think about anything you haven’t read on a Mad Mx billboard
Premier Doug Ford offers help to Manitoba after storm, Ontario hydro sending 25 power line workers to help yet Ford is hated by zeroTool and his boy toy . Where is trudeau ? Oh busy taking photo ops and not answering questions asked to him
You mean the same Doug ford that cut education, healthcare, and every other fundamental service for his people. Dudes arguably the biggest case of buyers remorse since Trump… you’re dumb lol
Even Scheers Conservatives have distanced themselves from Ford, that’s why my Premiere had to abandon his province to canvas for that fucken loser out east hahahahaha. So if you don’t think this is anything less than a campaign move? You are yet even dumber than I know you to be, I didn’t think the bar could get much lower… you’re closing in on corpse at this point.
Too bad Jason Kenny can’t run for Canada prime minister he would’ve been better candidate then sheer
A fucken amoeba would have been a better choice than Scheer… fact is Kenney, born and raised in his mothers basement like you but in fucken Ontario, is only here short term. So legions of fucken morons voted for him while those with more than double digit IQs tried to advise these people that Kenney isn’t genuine…
please don’t crucify…… listen Minnesota seems to be embracing this new rebuild because well They aren’t good. (was looking at they’re tradeable parts. these youngsters are stepping up and making our 4th line….. To Minnesota LW 27 Brian Rust $3.5 M C/W 26 Nick Bujgstad $4.166 M D 25 Jussi Rikola $850,000 G 25 Casey De Smith $1.0 m $9.5 million To Pittsburgh LW 27 Jason Zucker $5.5 M (limited no movement sure he waive it to come to a better team) D 26 Jonas Brodin $4.1 M $ 9.6 million Move Gudbrason’s $4.0 miliion in another deal maybe get… Read more »
Any place for fraud parise people here drooled over him when he was UFA. I bet he is worth every dime wild has paid him so far
No man that time has passed..he isn’t producing…and i wasn’t one of the parise backers…
Just bc BG used to be part of the Penguins organization it does not mean he will just let them fleece him just to be nice.
Thats true…but you can make more deals, better deals, with people that you know and that are familiar with your organization. trust is there and you know the players involved…
That part I do agree with but none of those players will help the Wild. Rust maybe, but not immensely.
So they would trade probably their top forward and one of their best defensemen for two mediocre to bad contracts and two guys that can’t crack our roster? Sure, as a Pens fan I’d love that. Then, you are getting a “decent” pick for a guy with an albatross of a contract for years that gets healthy scratched. Sign me up. We’d have to give up a decent pick just to move him. I’d then like to flip JJ, Letang and our first for McDavid and Ethan Bear. Boom.
Well current management wants to rebuild…and god knows they have tried to trade Zucker like a gazillion times
Brian Rust, 27 is no slouch (clutch playoff performer)and a nice second line wing who can score 20…what did Zucker have 26, 27 goals..
Nick Bujgstad would be a nice second line center De Smith gives them a solid young NHL back up goalie and Rikola can skate, makes a good outlet pass he fits in on their third pair…
Desmith is in his late 20s. And if you’re trying to rebuild, you’re trying to move veterans for picks and prospects. It’s even hard to consider Riikola one due to his age. Rust’s playoff acumen wouldn’t matter because they wouldn’t be a contender for at least 3 years. Fenton was also the one trying to move Zucker, not Guerin.
tbj233…You are correct De Smith is 28…(I thought he was 24) in any case Dubynk is 33 makes $4.1 million and the back up is Stalock who is 32 $850,000 ..Desmith is better than stalock and 4 years younger… 25 isn’t old and Rikola could easily fit in MInnesota he is a good passer, skater and player who just can’t sEem to get the ice time in Pittsburgh Rust and Zucker are both 27 (Guerin likes Rust from the Pittsburgh days) you save $2 million in salary for other things Rust will score you 18 to 24 goals Zucker will… Read more »
It seems like we will never get rid of J.J… 🙁
Wow huge two game road swing 14 goals in 7-4 wins over Minnesota and 7-2 over the Jets.. the youngsters coming to play….they keep this up it will be easier to move bujgstad and Rust which will clear $7.5 million in cap space.
Tristan jarry looked good in Winnipeg both goals deflected…nothing he could do…
Trade Murray. Gudbranson is horseshit
Fleury with possible save of the year candidate
Slurp slurp slurp… you are impressed to easily.
No new article. D must’ve took vacation with Malkin and galchenyuk
Nice reply after the 4-1 loss. Like the depth scoring here…. hopefully that’s a thing that will continue. Jarry tightened up after a horrible first goal, had a lot of post help but that’s how it goes. Good day… Pens win big and so did SF
7 goals and Penguins gudbransson still -1
Malkin and galchenyuk traded yet ?
Glad penguins winning tonight but must say tonight they have massive puck luck on their side a lot of weird goals
No your not.
True, that’s why Malkin is such an asset as he simply blows pucks passed goalies. Letang got two assists in a puck luck game… pffft
sAM MAN YOU ARE ALWAYS GLOOM AND DOOM..lol PUCK LUCK PART OF THE GAME BRO..WINNIPEGS SECOND GOAL BOUNCED OFF LETANG CHANGED DIRECTIONS AND SCHIEFLEE OPEN NET.
BOTTOM LINE TWO HUGE ROAD WINS DEPTH SCORING FROM THE BABY PENGUINS 14 GOALS
You guys think Penguins showcasing their #44 for jets #27
hope not I think he is too soft we have Bjugstad for that.
MAYBE..#44 FOR #27 Perrealut was ok gift goal and gudbrason had an off night some bad clears that got picked and held in ok on the PK so so….if this was an audition C+ maybe
Nice pass by #58 to #59 but cockk suckerrs on this website missed it
It was all shot ffs! Every D man on the roster could have made the pass lol
Even orpig?
Probably
That Sam guy is a good player do you agree npl ?
Guentzel is a good player
Hey Tool make sure you keep a tab how many Penguins winning without the Russians
“How many penguins winning…” lol!
This guy wants to preempt Letang from playing a role in Letangs second goal lol
Will do, especially as we are watching the team work hard to prevent Letang from fucken it all up. I mean legit he’s been bailed out by his team like 4 times this game. If he would get hurt I can just imagine how much more they could focus on just playing hockey
Bullshit call… now Letang will lose his man on the Pk
JFC, 1st Guentzel does Letangs job then how the fuck does Wheeler get behind the guy… thankfully the post was there
Nice to see Simon on the board, like to see more out of him but ultimately Sids been going well since that move.
Damn Simon
Oh jets second goal touched letang let’s blame him
If it was Malkin you would have made 7 posts about it already.
Well…
Hornqvist bailing out Letang there
It’s just nice knowing we have someone in net that doesn’t fold like a lawn chair in the playoffs. Blowing three 3 games to 1 leads is a mark nearly as insane as five goals in five different ways. I enjoyed how creative he got with it vs the Sharks last year. He outdid himself.
so do we just scratch Gudbranson till he loses all value? We have been down this road before with Sully.
Who? Which player was unfairly scratched hurting their value before a trade?
Ian Cole
Seemed to more of a conflict between he and the coach… thought you were gonna say Sprong lol.
Hell no on Sprong but while were are at it. What does Simon have to be on top line or in lineup. He is such an a$$ kisser. Quit passing the puck and take a few shots for heavens sake.
Frustrating as fuck as he has zero finish but they just hold possession with him out there. I wish he could fucken find even the tiniest bit of touch but there is no denying the push
I think the deals will happen when rust comes back in two weeks….something was a brewing and then Rust blocked that shot and messed things up…
boy Minnesota could use Rust or even Bujgstad at this point they look awful….
With about 5 minutes to go I thought, I havent seen Letang make an egregious error this game, then 30 seconds later BAM idiot play followed by a moronic play. Dude needs to be playing 3rd pairing minutes until they can find a taker.
How was trotman
Ask yo mama
He destroyed her.
Sam’s mom got a dp from DB and ZT.
Letang does not make bad plays, he just feels bad for the other team and tries to help them out. He is a giver. Just ask Sam(e).
Simon was incredible last night. Hes been the engine driving that first line.
Murray 7th fastest alltime to 100 wins…
Faster then Fleury and Price. It must be Letang’s amazing defensive play that helped him win all those games.
Or must be the fact fleury and price had shitier team in front
While Murray team wins most of the games for him how was the magic number for him last night
Most teams sit back on a 6-2 (big lead) lead and let up a shit goal or two. Not saying it is acceptable but it happens a lot.
Good thing he stumbled into a team with an offense that can cover up 4 goal games. He still sucks and is not what everyone thought he would be.
Are you kidding me ? He has won 2 Stanley cups ask the clowns on this board npl,tbj. And zerofool will gladly provide you a stats sheet
He was dynamite through both cups, despite a poor start last year had a terrific second half. I get it, we hate any goaltender that laces them up because pucks go in the net. We’ve seen several very talented teams not get the job done because of goalies that fail when it matters… shit MAF played for 5 years between cup wins and most of that was him collapsing when it mattered. Washington took awhile and eventually Hotby was their man. SJ is an alltime choker team, goaltending has always been a factor. So I understand we will never give… Read more »
This letang guy sucks
Apparently team is wining without the Russians
Magic number for Murray tonight ?
Box Score Sam(e) strikes again.
Glad you can finally admit it.
Funny how points matter when it’s his dude… no love for Murray when he closed the door on Zucker while the Wild were surging and Letang utterly abandon his post again.
Apparently the Stanley Cup champs got destroyed tonight
Lol no one fucken cares you fucken loser
Fraud Murray vs fraud praise
Battle of the frauds
Remember when Parise was free agent zeroTool and his drooling buddies wanted parise sign with the Penguins and Sam said he is overrated and money is looking for is overpaid
Well I am still waiting parise contract that he signed team making worth it out if it only reason this clown hasn’t been bought out yet it’s because he is their hometown boy.
I don’t… i do remember the last time sammich made up some stupid shit to try and make a point…
I will say.. I think the biggest thing holding Parise back… he’s the son of a French Canadian piece of shitt
Must be a liberal so it doesn’t count just like you fake Canadian
Well done sammich.. that’s a mic drop moment…
He’s the spawn of French trash that the English should have put on a boat home like your whore mothers whore great grandmother
Donald Trump 2016
Make America great again
Donald Trump 2020
Make fat democRATS cry again !
i’m so psyched to watch the new saint in this town play tonight on a wing with crosby. the pens propaganda machine is in full force, first bob errey and now 3 local articles saying the same buzz word. simon does “all the small things” right. that quote is straight from david moreheist doing damage control on his moron coach putting simon on the top line. yeah he does “all the small things” right except putting the puck into a wide open net. all hail st.simon! all hail! the new holy man in pgh that can do no wrong who… Read more »
Liberals are mostly white nerds that go to college for bullshlt majors and act like they are better than people. Hypocritical white knights
lil’ commies
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If Democrats are against fossil fuels, why do most of their kids work for Ukrainian gas and oil companies
Our crime minister is all for the carbon tax yet he is using 2 airplanes for his election he goes on joggging and uses 4 suv trucks. Go figure
And ZeroTool loves him
“Democrats know they can’t win on Election Day so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and Unconstitutional Bullshlt Impeachment”
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These are all fake polls to please the democRATS temporarily because Fox had enough seeing you fat democRATS Cry everytime
It’s a fox poll you fucken retard… this is gospel for you!
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We see how well the “polls” worked in 2016. If that helps you sleep at night, so bet it
I mean… she had 3 million more votes so they were pretty accurate. Sad you need a Canadian to point that out. Maybe something else is broken?
liberals are pretty much the useless turds of society. Want everything handed to them, like killing babies, support crime, and live in their parents basement until their late 30s. We can stereotype all day baby
And they often cry when they don’t get what they want
Conservatives are angry white men who are trying everything they can to cling on to the privileged life they’ve always had. The people who vote for them are often uneducated and easily influenced by fear of brown skinned people “taking over their country,” allowing the politicians they vote for to dangle that distraction while creating policies that continue to enrich the rich while taking away from the working class. (Psst.. its why they hate unions)
Enough with the fucking Canadian politics! No one cares!
He’s real quick to point out when others stray from hockey yet when we try to come back to it, even with these jabs he derails it almost instantly lol.
“I am almost convinced when Malkin signed his last contract there was a section in his contract lets him have 20 games per year vacation and can go to russia”
Contract kicked in the 2014 – 15 season.. Until last season
Geno Malkin 334 Games Played
Kris Letang 325 Games Played lolololol
Malkin has to sit out 9 games this year for Letang to catch up….
Was there also a section for Letang to take a break too fuckface?
Logic and numbers are not Sam(e)’s language.
Talking to Sam about politics is like talking to any Trump supporter about politics. It’s clearly beyond their capabilities and understanding.
Talking to Liberals/Democrats about politics is like talking to a Brick
Thats you being stonewalled.
Talking to sam about why he needs to use his potty is like trying to convince a pigeon its not an Eagle in english 😉
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F-U Zerotool and your beta male Trudeau
44 minute he talks about equalization money and yet ZeroTool still wants Trudeau so his alberta gets a Referendum yet accuses Quebec being a separatist province
They have literally held multiple referendums on the subject barely holding on by a couple percent you fucken donkey lol. Alberta separatists barely have 25% support you fucken idiot lol.
Now that said, if AB was to leave you’d feel it, I mean AB would also be screwing itself over because it’s land locked so it’s an utterly stupid idea but the money coming into the have not provinces would be significantly altered and your mother would have to cover your day care costs via tips from her blowjobs!
less roaches coming to quebec and wont need cheaper daycare Thanks to your Trudeau filling Quebec With Garbage people crossing the border by walk or so called refugees from middle east
each have 10 kids and dont work getting all kinds of aid
I think i will apply as Refugee maybe its better
Those refugees, to the man woman and child are better people and will contribute more than you in 100 life times. Maybe that’s why they bother you so much, not because they are remotely close to the crap you say they are but because you’re such a fucken loser that they threaten everything you hold dear because you cannot compete. On that note those coming over the boarder are not simply staying in Quebec you fucken queeb… they are processed and then split among the provinces and I already pointed out how as a percentage of population Quebec is on… Read more »
yess while processing it costing the province 350M$ then you wonder why canada has to give more to quebec
now there is a new war starting in Turkey border of syria there will be alot of new Kurd Refugges available im sure your Crime minister is first in line to accept them hope he ships them all to Edmonton in your neighborhood
So why were we giving money to PQ for decades before the crisis you dumb fuckk? PQ being the largest beneficiary of equalization isn’t new asshole.
On that note… it’s federal funding that either covers or eventually covers the costs as it’s an international issue you fucken retard.
I’d much rather live near a refugee than a far RW western conservative such as yourself… I mean those stats speak for themselves. You’re a timebomb Sam, only a matter of time before your racism manifest itself in a multiple body hate crime
Move to Ontario then
I’m sure Albertans sees you as fake Canadian since majority Alberta is conservative
This literally makes zero sense but it is exactly what I would expect from you. Conflating Conservative with far RW conservative with a murderous rage in their head “becuz immagrantz” is typical of the sammich and his masterful inability to fucken grasp any thing in a conversation about anything.
majority =/= all… in fact during the last provincial cycle my entire region remained orange you fuckhead. So yes, Alberta is traditionally right leaning… that is not a euphemism for RW terrorist you idiot. What is remarkably laughable… People here blindly vote Conservative in part due to a belief they will have their interest in mind more so than other parties. It is that blind allegiance that keeps us from finding the representation we don’t think we have. I am not so narrow minded to ignore that the self-entitlement that comes from living in an Oil Province plays a significant… Read more »
Now that I see who this is I am laughing harder… this guy lost the leadership race of the CPC to Andrew fucken Scheer of all people. He then cries like a sam and starts his own party… literally one of the most bigoted groups that has ever tried to hold office in this country. He has party members, weekly, take heat for racist or homophobic remarks… or both. Typical this is your man like sooooo much, you are soooo in love with this dude it hurts don’t it sam. What has to hurt now is they will not even… Read more »
Im guessing the only reason why Letang hasnt been traded is because no one wants a defenseman who cant defend at $7M aav. He singlehandedly ruins Sully’s system. Letang should play with DB and his circus system.
Great you finally admit DB Suckss
When before you used go drool over him
Typical average fan realizes few years later
Maybe in a few years you will also realize MAF is better then Fraud Murray. .
880sv%
933sv%
908sv% Cup
891sv%
899sv%
834sv%
883sv%
915sv%
927sv%
872sv% Cup
924sv% Cup
MAF Playoff Save %.
Those numbers are terrible. He has three good post seasons out of 11. If this was any other goalie you would be screaming for his head, not wanting to give him head.
(Insert Blame Everyone but Fleury here_____)
Don’t post things like that. Making sense on here will trigger 3/4 of the board.
Classic Sam misreading the board… the only praise DB actually got from most was the fact he won whereas a guy who you’d love to have complete in your mouth did not. Everyone recognized DB had to go, just compared to Therrien? I mean one has a cup on his resume and the other is known as one of the all time assholles behind the bench
Zerotools Singh been asked 2 questions and he declined to answer them what a Tool.
He is like you every time you are proven wrong.
Funny how now he’s “my Singh” lol. You consistently being a hero worship mentality to the politician and players you like, when no one gives a fuck, but project this shit on everyone else. You are a master of projection… the one thing you are really good at lol
What is fraud Price’s number tonight?
Screw price… time to move away from Geno… McCann has clearly established himself at a 2C…. he did play tonight yeah?
Letang hasn’t injured him yet and he had one great game so they should trade Crosby while he still has value and move McCann up to number one C.
Great play by Simon
Where is trotman?
Beavis Scores!
With McCann as C2 you can’t even tell Makin is gone right…. I mean… McCann is still out there yeah?
Yeah Mccann is out there and that potatoe chip fragile malkin isnt that’s the point….We won playing some defense as well something else geno cant do..
There is a rumor Gudbranson for Matthew Perreault.(DONT KNOW IF IT HAPPENS BUT)..they both make $ 4 million we need another center and they need a right handed D-man
And if IF WE GOT MATTHEW Perreault who IS PLAYING WELL he and Mccann they can battle for 2 and 3 center geno can stay injured..
You do realize that when Geno returns, lets say he missed 15 games, will likely have a 20/30 point lead on McCann by years end yeah? Even if McCann does have a full on break out year I would not place bets on a 60+ season… Malkin will likely still finish with 60-70 points by year end health permitting. So you can continue to show us your inner sam by cherry picking last year and blowing it out of proportion (I mean serious, every other year the good generally outweighed the bad and youd have to be a colossal sam… Read more »
Zero…your a depth move… no one said Mccann was better wake up YOU asshole i never said that…bottom line in Malkin isn’t aging well he is 33, stupid as you are, is a turnover machine (along with letang) and cant play defense… I have said Matthew perreault and Jared Mccann would be a nice alternative. cheaper, faster and we would be a better team defensivley and have depth…. Malkin aint Malkin anymore… face that yes malkin will get more points yes (alhough goals last year malkin 21 Mccann 19 but at $9.5 million for what two more years..mmhhh if they… Read more »
*you’re… lol You’ve been out here pushing this Ridiculous idea that the Pens would improve moving Malkin and having McCann fill that spot which is fucken laughable to anyone whose not being biased as fuckk “He isn’t top 15 anymore” based on one year A? And even if that’s right… only 7Cs on your list and that fucken matters…. then again you left Matthews and Tavares Off the list hahahahaha… Malkin was the best player on the ice until he was hurt, he put a ton work in and was vocal that the Kessel issue with coach factored into his… Read more »
I’ve said many times, I don’t care who it is as long as it improves the team but too many EA hail Marie’s are suggested and that’s why I come at you.
There is about 12 million in questionable contracts that might be tradable, moreso if we include Gudbranson, who has not been a liability and adds the toughness fans of this team want so badly, but the answer isn’t a major piece of cup winner but guys who may be replaceable vs there production… Hornqvist losing out based on injury
It does sound like they want to move gudbrason..healthy scratch…Marino keeps developing consistently and looks pretty solid..rust and Johnson are the other two for me that’s like your figure $10..7 i like hornqvist keep him..maybe bujgstad..
Marino is a source of hahahahaha for me… dude looks solid but the oilers gave him for nothing lol. Classic oilers ands it’s such a juicy fuck off to the locals lol
You can tell when malkins in the game..Just in the penalty box, or has has his head down and fishing the puck out of his own net, or taking some cough drops from the nurse, after he coughs the puck up every other possession..
Letang still sucks
Once again trudeau looks like a clown tonight at the debate
More or less than Bernier did the first one? How’s Singh? Kids been real nice yeah lol
Singh is a lost case he doesn’t even know what he is doing wtv side the wind blows his mind changes something like you one minute you are shitting on a player the other minute you are blowing them
Such as? Singh’s only fault is he thinks people from Quebec are not fucken morons… if it wasn’t for that he’d have more push. Regardless the point wasn’t made to throw support behind him as much to nod to him being arguably the best in these debates…. far, FAR, SUPERIOR to the idiots you pull your panties down for and I know that pisses you off
Singh is delusional he is saying everything that the average wants to hear with no concrete plan just smoke in the air and your beta male trudeau don’t make me start about that clown but as votes are rigged and manipulated by liberals wouldn’t be surprised if he wins despite he is a clown just shows how sad Canada has become once he wins
No concrete plan? Literally sounds like the CPC… the entire plan is “Scheer ain’t Trudeau”…. mad max… no immigrants; that’s it. You’re dumb lol
Paying trudeaus deficit in 2 years while trudeau plans to do worst. Just Sucks he had and Amazing debate and Monday was only his first Sucks canada didn’t really see of Bernier thanks to trudeau and liberals sabotaging him earlier this month
Now that most people just discover ppc this will divide between conservative and ppc and liberals will get the win typical liberal scum move
Rebel news asking trudeau questions that he wants to cry on tv but he can’t lol
Rebel news…. bahahahahahahahahaha… even the Bloc told them to fuckkoff yet here you are, too stupid to think for yourself.
Scum move by the Liberals? You mean they planned to have Max Berniers radical RW ideology lose to the worst conservative leader in this countries history? The PPC is polling at 2.5% across the country, that’s why Max shouldn’t even be allowed at the debates because he ain’t a real leader. They will lose official party status and barely scratch the surface of the CPC vote… JFC if you had half a clue you’d know this. PPC is a fringe party you fucken incel. We are headed to a minority government… because Singh has done a good job turning some… Read more »
56 billion, that was the 2012 dollars pissed away using the excuse of a global issue despite protections of a 100 year old regulation that was the conservatives last run… one year… Jesus you’re fucken dumb dude
WHY do i have this on my Youtube recommendation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NPPE6a7mSI
Why do you feel the need to fuck up every single thread with these videos?
the “anonymous whistleblower” is getting death threats
So the NBA boycotted North Carolina because of a bathroom bill but is fine with China hahahha money talks
hypocrisy. There’s an inherent conflict within the liberal ideology that will always be an Achilles Heel.
Conservatives are pro life, pro gun, anti-healthcare. Guess theyre all hypocrites!
npl you forgot pro Economy , pro working anti-lazy people
strictly conservatives? I know plenty of hardcore democrats that are pro gun/life? Reaching a little there
I mean, there can be democrats with conservative views. There can also be blind optometrists but it doesnt make it a regularity. Anecdotal info aside, the vast majority of conservative repubs run on the platform of pro life/pro gun and vote accordingly.
Like “i don’t want to pay for hand outs” but then turn a blind eye to corporate tax cuts that fuck everyone over under 7 figures a year lol. My god I can’t imagine living in a world where I need the feeling of injustice basically in print to notice it
Hand outs coming from a guy that voted for trudeau master of giving away money like candies
Yet in four years still hasn’t added to the debt to fix Harpers neglect what Harper did in two to line pockets of the “right people”. Sit down you fucken clown you’re in over your head… especially coming from the province that benefits the most from money moving in this country
That’s actually the point of my remark… retards like you are fine with corporate welfare waiting for the ends to trickle down while it’s hoarded but freak out about assistance that recontributed: you’re a complete fucken idiot in such an embarrassing manner… you wouldn’t understand the most basic ideas of this subject if it was spelled out in your DNA.
Collectively the defense is terrible. Their goalie is a fraud. Schultz is a 3rd pairing guy.
The A on Letang’s jersey stands for Albatross.
Fucken expert comment
Agreed…letang can be so out there you just wonder what the fuck he is thinking or doing…. If Letang and Malkin have 20 brain cells between them it would be a miracle….
This teams name should change
Pittsburgh Fraudsters
Pittsburgh Museum
Pittsburgh vacationers
Make your picks bandwagon boys
3 cups from this era and suddenly they are frauds yet his team who hasn’t seen a finals in 26 years is great. What a fucken loser lol
Since the lost season Pittsburgh is tied for the most cups… frauds.
Since the 1980s expansion Pittsburgh is tied for the most cups with the current era leading… frauds
This guys the dumbest mother fucker watching the game now.
Here comes sam “I didn’t mean always despite saying exactly that”… fucken idiot
Bandwagon Sam(e)
Flip Flopping Sam(e)
Front Runnier Sam(e)
Sam cmon man…I agree with Zero 3 cups 13 straight playoff seasons that hardly counts as frauds…get serious now…
Are they looking weak yes, does the defense sucks yes (been saying that since last year) are injuries an issue of course…lets give it 10 games before the panick button is pushed..They have not looked great and they need to get their collective heads out of their asses…
they made playoffs because of Fleury over those year and they had multiple injuries
lets see with fraud murray how will they do how many games will he be able to steal before going on his annual vacation as well
I am almost convinced when Malkin signed his last contract there was a section in his contract lets him have 20 games per year vacation and can go to russia
I wonder what would happens if i compared avg games per season for Geno vs Letang since their payout… what do you think fuck face?
He would ignore you and post a stupid video about Florida or Trump or other American things he is obsessed with.
i DO AGREE WITH YOU ON MURRAY…HE ISNT A FRAUD BE HE NEEDS TO BE ALOT BETTER THAN HE HAS BEEN AND STAY INJURY FREE…
Just move to Vegas and become his personal fluffier already. I never met anyone with such a hard-onn for mediocrity as you. It must be a French Canadian thing.
wOW YOU ALMOST AS MUCH OF AN ASSHOLE AS SOME OTHERS ON HERE…..POINTING OUT HE IS A GOOD GOALIE THATS ALL..PENS MADE THE RIGHT MOVE MOVING ON FROM HIM. BUT HE IS A SOLID NHL GOALIE UNLIKE YOU WHO ISNT SOLID…
Fluff off dude this is a sports place…..don’t be a dick make stupid comments..
Im from Pittsburgh….I’m .not French Canadien thing…
What a hater you are hall of fame isn’t mediocrity…….wake up you ****put your personal dislike aside….
880sv%
933sv%
908sv% Cup
891sv%
899sv%
834sv%
883sv%
915sv%
927sv%
872sv% Cup
924sv% Cup
MAF Playoff Save %.
Those numbers are terrible. He has three good post seasons out of 11. If this was any other goalie you would be screaming for his head, not wanting to give him head.
(Insert Blame Everyone but Fleury here_____)
Look they are both good goalies as I said….MAF will end up top 5 al time in wins and Murray will grow mature and hopefully become excellent….
I don’t know I remember that huge clutch save on Nick Lidstrom in the 2009 Stanley cup final game 7 in Detroit with seconds remaining….o preserve a 2-1 win.
WOW YOU REALLY DONT LIKE FLUERY GEEZ…..
Hey Rod 148……You don’t end up in the top 5 all time in wins for a goalie unless your good…period You know how long that takes, how many games, and the quality you have to have season after season…cmon dude… yes he has had meltdowns 2012 vs Flyers playoffs and some not so great save % post season but he is going to win 500 plus games and you don’t do that with out being good.. Antei Neimi now THATS A PENGUINS GOALIE WhO sucks…..he warrants your wrath…..not MAF HE WILL GET TO THE HALL OF FAME AND THEN WE… Read more »
You’re such a fucken donkey lol…. they only had one cup until Murray because MAF couldn’t keep it together either hahaha what a fucken loser
Look MAF and Murray are really good goalies…Fleury had some major meltdown 2012 vs Flyers he couldn’t stop giant beach ball….but when all is aid and down he will go down in the top 5 in wins for goalies all time.
Murray a young goalie who had success early (but like MAF) he has had some struggles I still think there is more upside to come for Matt and we will need him in this stretch coming up..
Sam thinks Im cute.
We don’t care what your boyfriend micheal Sam thinks of you
Sheary injured he probably went on vacation with Malkin
This team went from promising to disastrous in a week…This team seems to have more injures than any team in the league….also for whatever reason cant seem to cover the front of their own net…poor
Winnipeg had an AHL defense cprps out there…
A week ago you wanted to add Rask at 4MM to our 4th line….
Guess what we could use Victor Rask right about now couldn’t we wise ass….. he would be third line center right now and a upgrade right now!! He would really help us out we are decimated with injuries so that would have been a good move….
So there’s that Zero…
No, we couldn’t… guys trash and expensive trash. We have enough of that as is. Besides we have McCann and next to Crosby he’s apparently the best centre in the league lol
wow man you are an interesting cat you and sam the man go at it…. Look Mccann is 23 (according to you you can still develop at that age) Geno is 33 and declining faster than you and Sam in a argument. I never said Mccann was better than Malkin!..i said mccann could play the number 2 center position because right now he he is faster, 10 years younger, smarter and better defensively than dumb ass malkin……and sooooo much cheaper.. If we got Matthew Perreault from Winnipeg for Gudbranson like some of the trade rumors that are swirling..i would take… Read more »
Alex Galchenyuk on IR now Adam Johnson now up
To be honest last night was hoping Pens would follow the Pirates and show the Manager (GM) the door just before honoring a franchise legend. I am real worried with GMJR giving away more draft choices to try and fix this ship if we don’t start playing better.
66% of Letang’s points this year have come via the powerplay. #PPspecialist #WhatAreDefense?
youre soo smart with your stats
100% of malkins point this year come Via Powerplay #ppspecialist #WhereIsMyPaycheck
Sam thinks Im cute
How is Murray Doing ?
https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/1181713458611605509
Does Blackburn know you’re jacking off in his tool shed?
#citizensofcanada
laughing stock of the NHL except for the bandwagons here
https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/1181713458611605509
where is npl when you need him to witness his idol
Let me Guess ZeroTool will come up with some dumb stats again
The 2 on 1? You can’t be that fucken stupid. I’ll wait for Pete fucken Blackburn to come up with a reply for you… idiot
Galchenyuk listed Day to day Typical
get rid of this Cancer Quick
What did Letang do to him now?
maybe his GF kicked him in the nuts since he is a woman beater
Do you need a reminder that she assaulted him and he held off? Which is a fucken miracle considering Montreal is a cess pool of biker activity infesting the team?
I see fucken retard is making the same stupid PP argument here Malkins totals last year were 12 ES goal and 34 ES assists; he had 21 points on the PP for a 29.2% production average with the extra man. Also your attempt to somehow remove more points because of the minus 25 is absurd especially given how many SHGs the team coughed up last year lol. How are you gonna magically erase points to fit a narrative especially considering that his PP points to contribute to a + but the SHGA creates a – you fucken idiot. Now I… Read more »
Zero…the problem with Malkin is well there are a lot but… A. your points are valid some solid stats there for sure… most people feel He makes stupid passes and turnovers, he takes the dumbest undisciplined penalties, for the love of god wont shoot the f****ing puck and he has a cannon…that’s beside the fact he gets injured alot the last 3 years, he is lazy, a horrible defensive player, and quite honestly there isnt much between the ears.. The issue is Look Crosby 2009 and Crosby 2019 he is a better overall 200 foot player and scored 100 points… Read more »
sorry 2009…ooppsss
Crosby is a generational talent… it’s ridiculous to compare the two and that’s the problem with the fans of the team too often. We hold Crosby as the standard as opposed to the exception and when we don’t get out of other what we get from him people bitch.
With all players you measure if the good outweighs the bad… last year Geno was arguably more bad than good but through his career it’s no contest we accept his low points because the high significantly outweigh the low. Suddenly it’s over? Because of a truly bad year?
When this team has won Malkin has been front and center each year.
If Malkin had Crosby or Ovechlin’s drive he would be un-stopable….
He would get crucified in Montreal, Toronto Chicago or any other big hockey market city.
But he hides behind Sidney Crosby and coasts along to his own drum…He would get roasted and run out of town elsewhere…
If you have a real goalie like we use to, he will bail your team out. Find it funny no mention of MM play last night. A regular goalie bails you out once in a while, a good goalie steals a goal a game from opposing team, a great goalie steals two goals a game. And a MM goalie just waves. Yeah D looked horrible but for heavens sake back them up with a goalie.
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Dont say that Fraud Murray has won 2 Stanley cups
you might hurt Npl’s and stans feelings
Murray wasn’t great but as I noted on the other page the second goal was a 2 on 1 by a very good shot from the slot, goal three was at least 2 Penguins providing the screen although I’d like to see Murray get to it as he was able to touch. Goal 4 he makes the save which then falls on the D to help him out… Letang is almost the last Penguin back and then watched to goal happen upon arrival… he was a minus again last night
Overall he wasn’t sharp but we too often default to “it was the goalies fault”
Will give you it does default to the goalies fault. However I think MM has gone down hill faster than Steve Blass career collapse on the mound.
Sam once said he wont be in this league by time he is MAF age of today
I dont even know why he is considred top 10 goalie still only matter of time
once upon a Time DB was considered best coach in league up until he was exposed as a fraud
Probably because where MAF is an alltime choke in the playoffs MM won
Murray hasn’t been the same and is not consistent for sure…but he is young there is time to right the ship.
im not sure if its the slew of injuries he has had the last couple years
If he has just lost some confidence and that swag
The team in front of him isn’t good defensively (and they aren’t)
We need him to step up big now with all these injuries….
you want this team to get better Trade Both Russians this year
Letang isn’t Russian…
Guys a fucken nightmare and the team plays far better D consistently when he’s hurt. Did last year, he’s a liability and has been for awhile. They won without him, he’s expendable
What’s best, when they won in 17 without Letang… Malkin was fucken dynamite lol.
How many times are you going to spell Bjugstads name wrong?
hi Nick
pens are in trouble.
they will miss the playoffs this year every year they have injuries but they get wins here are the now this time you have Fraud murray in net chances are they will miss the playoffs
And he wasn’t last year or the year before? Great point.
penguins had more PP specialists they were lucky with alot of Victories now they are more Exposed now that Chubby gone they are more exposed that they cant win hockey games since their pp sucks as well
So Kessel was a part of team success… got ya because that’s exactly what the comment means dipshit
You mean trouble pens are in