All of the fuss after Penguins 5-2 loss to the Maple Leafs centered around goaltender interference after a Brian Dumoulin second period goal was waved off and resulted in Dumoulin somehow getting a 2-minute minor for interference that went from Pittsburgh being down 3-1 (if the goal stood) to 4-0 moments later as the Maple Leafs scored a power play marker on the Dumoulin penalty.
It was insane that the Dumoulin goal was disallowed but the Penguins didn’t lose because the goal didn’t stand. Pittsburgh was already in a 3-0 hole at the time of the Dumoulin controversy.
This was just a classic game where a skilled Maple Leafs team finished their chances and Pittsburgh didn’t.
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The Penguins top-3 lines were all 57% or better in driving possession during the loss. The 4th line of Kuhnhackl – Jooris – Rowney was at 37%.
— An opportunistic team, Toronto did a very good job minus star center Auston Matthews of making it a tough defensive night for Kris Letang in particular who had great possession #’s (32-11, 71% all-situations) but was on the ice for 4 goals against.
There’s not much that should be overanalyzed in this one. One highly skilled team getting the better of the other with Toronto getting strong goaltending from Frederick Andersen and Tristan Jarry failing to make timely saves.
— One clear edge Toronto had in the game was a major skill advantage on their 4th line. For Pittsburgh in a back-to-back situation this weekend against two skilled teams (Toronto & Dallas) would have been a nice opportunity to get Daniel Sprong some NHL games.
Penguins heavy in the college free agent D-Man Market on 2-particular targets
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Tom Fitzgerald a serious contender for Hurricanes GM Job
Former Penguins assistant GM Tom Fitzgerald, now with the New Jersey Devils, will be a strong contender for the Carolina Hurricanes GM opening and said to be a very serious candidate as interviews are underway.
Don Waddell, who worked under the Shero regime as a scout for a few years, is among the leading voices in the Hurricanes GM search and has Fitzgerald To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
Hey -5ammich, how you holding up after that devastating beating from Dallas last night?
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Oleksiak with solid bounce back game. Letang could possibly have the worst hockey IQ in the history of the sport. Seriously.
So 1 seed and play any of Car/Fla/NJ/Cbus. Or 2/3 seed and either play Wash/Phi. List in order of who i’d want to play in order. Car -> Fla -> Phi -> Cbus -> NJ -> Wash
I’d agree, although I’m actually a little more apprehensive about NJ than Wash. I know I’m in the minority, but they are faster and I think the Pens match up better against the caps. We seem to give holtby fits and I don’t think they are deep at all.
Ya, we can beat all those teams, but i’d prefer to get wash after they play 6 or 7 games. Shero and Fitzgerald have done a nice job in NJ and made them dangerous. 1st round scares me.
More like Fitzgerald. Shero is a moron that brought washed up players like Bennett and tk over there in suprised he didn’t hire Db yet
Jackets and Philly I’d put them last pens can handle caps. And other eastern teams pens should watch out are the leafs and bruins which hopefully they play one another first round.
Yeah, from the small sample in which you guaranteed a flyers win clearly shows they are the better team.
On a 7 games series flyer’s can upset the pens. Specially they enjoy playing at PPG museum
Yeah, the loss they took there earlier this year I’m sure really helped their confidence. Clown.
Ya they looked really threatening the other night. It’s amazing how bad you want this team to lose. Even if they do, after two straight it don’t really matter lol. You’ll still be a fucken retard
Oh my.. what a beating by Dallas, between this and the Philly sample the Pens as a franchise should fold and sell their assets to Montreal. Amirite -5ammich?
-5ammich in regular form tonight
Letang is an absolute disaster
Oleksiak working on another outlier? Man sitting Hunwick for a fringe guy like Ruhwedel was a great move. Guys a solid 7 but compared to Hunwick, at least in this system, Ruhwedel is a very serviceable 6. Oleksiak has looked real good since Hunwick was unshackled from his ankle. Now they just need to sort Brassard out
Leave it to sam to hate the reality of the team. What a fucken asshole lol
I hope they can get that waste of a cap hit (Hunwick) off the roster by the time next year starts. It would be nice to be able to use that 2.5 to go after a 3/4 defenseman like Jack Johnson so you can move Maatta back to the 5/6 pairing with Oleksiak.
Is it the same JJ that I mentioned during the TD
The same JJ that D has been writing about for 5 years.
And shove your thumbs down up your asss.
I hear that Ian Cole guy will be a UFA.. maybe they can get him. I hear he plays defense.
Pass.
Better options out there who can fill the 3/4 role for the money he’s going to demand and he has a terrible relationship with our coach.
It was a joke.
I am curious about JJ but he has some issues in his own right. We get upset at Letang for his pinching even when he is playing well, which he has been better as of late, so adding another whose career has had head scratching moments throughout is not ideal.
This could be a tough off season. With Rust and Guentzel needing contracts… ya it will be tough indeed
JJ wants out I say throw in TK and his contract and pens would give less to guentzel after seeing the mistake with sheary. Also cap coming up
Pens will lose another match tonight and average bandwagon fan will freak out
Sams a Dallas fan tonight… because he’s a fucken loser cuntt fake ass Penguin fan
I’m glad Malkin has 2 points proving you wrong again…
Did Brassard get his VISA yet because i noticed he hasn’t been working yet.
Maybe they can revoke it. I was not happy when that trade was announced when I saw what was lost and I was happy when it feel through but then Vegas had to ruin it. Lol
Any chance we can pay Carolina to take Guerin and then we can gets Fitzgerald back as our GM in waiting?
Would love to see Fitzgerald as GM think he was driving force in organization for a while before he left.
When Brassard gets here the Pens will be able to roll 4 solid lines. Sheahan as a 4C is going to be tough to play against. Pens will be unstoppable.
Definitely getting closer to the panic moment with that trade. The idea of Ottawa programming can’t carry him through a bad period over 20 in Pittsburgh.
You can see ability but he’s clearly having chemistry issues
We were in panic mode till about January and then something clicked and we all went to 3pete mode. I think i’ll wait 4 more weeks before I panic.
I’m as reserved as the next guy but the trade is looking rougher by the night. Too early to panic but the D misses Cole and Brassard hasn’t offset the missing piece yet. Still more than a dozen games to work through it but yikes so far
Npl blows
Brassard blows