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— This photo says it all about the Steelers on Zeke Elliott’s game winning TD run.
Stephon Tuitt a second round pick pancaked on the ground, Ryan Shazier a first round pick laying on his butt, and Jarvis Jones a first round pick unable to make a play inside.
This has just been all too familiar with the Steelers front-seven.
One problem the Steelers are running into is that they’ve been too fixated on drafting hybrid players and it’s coming back to haunt them.
— When it rains, it pours.
Ron Cook of the PG reports Cam Heyward’s pec injury is believed to be serious and not good.
— If the Giants 21-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals showed anything — safety Landon Collins should have never lasted till the second round in the 2015 draft —
Nova Demands, Free Agency/Trade Chatter
Pirate sources say Ivan Nova’s agent Greg Genske told club officials last week at the GM Meetings that he is confident of landing [hide] a three year deal in the neighborhood of $42 million in free agency for his client.
One reason for that type of optimism.
Genske has told the Pirates front office it will take a Francisco Liriano type offer to get back to the negotiating table. Genske who also represents Liriano, landed a three year, $39 million contract from the Pirates two winters ago, the largest contract given out in club history to a free agent.
Pittsburgh which has made multiple offers to Nova this fall have no interest in going beyond the $10 million range.
Sources say Pittsburgh last offer to Nova was a two year, $18.5 million contract with a club option for $10 million 2019.
Huntington has told close associates in the organization he won’t make the same mistake he made with the contract he gave to Francisco Liriano who was a much more established pitcher at the time.
Names floating around that the Pirates have touched based with through the early stages of free agency are mostly stop-gap starters.
There’s a group of five to six names Pittsburgh is looking at.
One of the first calls the agent for Andrew Cashner received was from the Pirates, a source confirms.
Pittsburgh has also checked in with the representatives for Edinson Volquez who is open to a return to Pittsburgh.
Others Pittsburgh has kicked some tires on include lefties Jorge De La Rosa and Derrick Holland.
— What a time to be a baseball player. Neil Walker will make $17.2 million dollars next season with the Mets. Some inside the industry also won’t be surprised to Walker’s close friend Andrew McCutchen join him in the Big Apple this winter via trade.
Rangers Turning Heads
The New York Rangers have become the talk of the NHL. Off to a 12-4 start, the Rangers have scored 65 goals in 16 games. While many believed the window was closing, they’ve transformed their group into a four line scoring team with a ton of speed.
A big key has been cheap labor with the likes of Michael Grabner, Brandon Pirri and Jimmy Vesey. That’s how you retool a stale team quickly up against the cap that looked to have ran out of gas last season.
As the NHL season nears the quarter mark, there are four teams that are threats to the Penguins:
New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals.
It’s hard to see another team emerging between now and spring. [/hide]
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Even if that made sense, it’s still not as bad. #loserinCanada
Just in case you missed it, I just made Sam go full retard…lmfao
No no. He’s always at full retard. This is a level below that. I didn’t know this existed.
D we need a new article .And please name us who was pens best player and worst player last night . Make sure you give your toughs according +/- because some clowns on this site judge players based on only that
You do know the word is spelled “thoughts” right? I mean once or twice its a slip of the fingers but this is consistent and every single time lol
They got embarrassed 7-1, there was no best player because they all played horrible last night, even the Canadian players. That’s the point you fucking chode.
Not to mention the fact that you think D’s opinion of who played well has any relevance at all.
Funny how Crosby’s line was a combined -8 last night compared to the HBK line that was a -4 combined and the Malkin line that was a combined -1 and yet Sam has had nothing to say about the line that was torched the most.
funny how malkin was most of the night in the Box
you are a certifided Clown
best line out there last night was
cullen line then sid line then malkin then hbk line but you only watch the scoreboard what they doo
despite letang had -5 he has still the best D out there while you had cole and Dumo absolute Garbage but its okay scoreboard is what to look at
definition of a certified clown
i dont know what kind of stone age receiver you have but if you do have one that records watch the goals that happened and because of who it happened dont be fooled just by crosby and letang – stats .and BTW TK suckss oops i mean Sheary
Can someone change the record? It’s clearly skipping.
probably your satelite skipping alot of plays due to lag since you live in a high end Area
Sam when your hurl insults, an angel loses her wings. You’re so fuckking bad at it.
LOL, guy sure isnt pretty out there but Sheary just seems to deliver timely offence. Thats a major difference between him and TK
you are probobly same type of person that would say murray played better then fleury last night because fleury let it 5.
Is that right ?
Malkin was miserable last night too. He would have been -8 if he didn’t spent 32 minutes in the penalty box.
you kidding me he was the best player last night his name was often on the scoreboard
I know the guy is prone to penalties but I dont know what his fucking deal is early this year. He has been a utter headcase.
4th liners take so many dumb penalties not players that are paid like a 1st liner .
yeah it does happen here and there a star player can take a dumb penalty but for the russian it has become a habit
he has more Penalties then points
he scores 1 or 2points then most of the nights he costs teams momentum on nightly basis
last night his lazy pass that led to the shorthanded goal broke the team down.
After that caps shorthanded goal game became one sided
I love that Ovi tries to run Geno thru the boards every game. Just reminding Malkin who Russia’s big dog really is.
Hey shitt Stain what do you think of Chubby scoring his 1st 5v5 goal in a long time ?
worth every penny Eh ?
They won a cup. And he was the real MVP. So yeah. Worth every fuckking penny. And it’s not close.
lol Murray faked an injury. What a loser.
yeah he got scared from the caps and was worried for his stats whe he had let in 2 goals on 12 shots he knew it was going to be worst if he stayed so he left but still got the Loss
D I paid hard earned money to this site. You better come up with a good news tomorrow about malkin and the pens. Make sure you mention malkin is a thief and Kessel is a con artist,and that both work on same goal and that goal is stealing paychecks
Russian has more penalties then the 3rd and the 4th liners combined. This clown has the team for a ride. Gets paid like a 1st liner and performs like a 4th liner
Well your mom pays good money.
Who’s old enough to remember the Mark Recchi trade to the Flyers? Propelled the Pens to their second Cup (1991-92). Still early but I see parallels with this team. A big fan favorite traded to make team better in short run.
The league is very different now than it was in the early 90’s, those type of trades aren’t even possible now because of the salary cap but good comparison.
We shall see.
It’s funny how much this board blows up when they lose (or loose in same language). It’s one game and even the best teams lay a few eggs in an 82 game schedule. On a serious note, is the injury to Murray serious? I wasn’t able to watch the game tonight, thankfully.
No need to watch fully your hockey starts in April either ways
Murray was shaky and was all over the two weak goals were bad and that so called injury was just cherry on the top for him to get pulled
You’re as dumb as yoda and that’s not what he asked!
Murray took a good stick to the head by Geno during a net scuffle (behind the net). Not sure why Geno kept his stick in his hand but it hit him hard! I think he was pulled as precautionary but I he didn’t look sharp on the second goal. I think the pens simply decided to keep him out because of the 1a, 1b thing. MAF was hung out to dry as well. Bad game to the point of hilarity
As opposed to Canadian hockey that ends in April.
No, Murray pulled himself out because he didn’t want to get shelled.
I loved the st bleury poke check on the ovi breakaway. Who else knew the first shot the Saint faced was going in. Way to go geno for breaking your goalies nose. Pens were a sack o’shit tonight. FYI, if the Saint played last year in the playoffs against the caps, the pens would have lost in 5 and would have suffered at least 2 blow outs like tonight.
hahahaha
Did I call that or did I call that… no balls to come out after Murray shit the bed but was able to take a shot at MAF in a game that was already way out of hand because no one showed up. Such a predictable loser!
Not sure I’d classify 2-0 as “out of hand”
zerocool is just buttt hurt because his patron saint had a chance to come in and save the day to give his team a shot but he failed yet again. you should find a cult hero who is at least a winner. you pick crappy players to be your hero.
Couldn’t bail his team out. Out to lunch on a breakaway. Sometimes your goalie needs to make the big save. This and that. All of these are your words. And the second goal looked like he was concentrating on Sam massaging his taint. Completely weak. You’re a fraud.
who was out to lunch on a breakawy? murray????? he made an incredible save. the guy who was out to lunch was st.bleury with his ultra predictable poke check on the best goal scorer in the world. what are you even talking about? regardless, your patron saint sucked. .903 on the season while murray is at .951. this stater 1A and 1B talk is about as silly as the media saying hillary had a 99% probability of winning the election. you are a brainwashed minion. hahahaha!
It’s not the ones he makes… its the ones he doesnt. Has this not been your mantra?
So basically what you just said is that Murray buried them last night? Why else would Fleury have had to save the day in the first place? Your so dumb that you literally just admitted that your a fraud.
If you actually watched the game you would have realized that it was already way out of hand even before Washington scored that horrible 2nd goal.
The team was not playing well at all at 2-0, while you are right that is not quite out of hand I was referring to his chatter on the Ovechkin goal… this was Washingtons 6th goal of the game and was past the halfway point of the third period. By definition the game was way out of hand!
murray wasn’t horrible. the first goal he stopped a breakaway and oshi picked up the rebound. it was a joke effort by malkin. the second one he was possibly screened but maybe not. it was the 1st iffy goal of the season that murray let in. however, 1st ballot hall of famers as you proclaim your patron saint to be shouldn’t be allowing goals on the 1st shot again to officially put the nail in the coffin on his team winning or attempt to poke check the games greatest goal scorer on a breakaway. the entire team was a joke… Read more »
Another classic Yoda post. If Fleury gave up those goals he would be whining about how horrible they were and how Fleury always puts them in a hole by giving up early goals, how he got beat by a 40′ wrist shot and how anyone defends those goals is a clueless cultist but when it’s Murray it’s excuses, excuses and more excuse about why he wasn’t to blame and it was all the teams fault. You never cease to amaze.
I won’t even go into detail here because it’s pointless… you would crucify MAF for the same goals. GoFuckYourself
D we need a instant buzz immediately
Silver lining. Kessel’s first even strength goal in 4 months.
Shhh Don’t say that stain doesn’t know he only follows the box score and doesn’t care what player is getting paid and what he is here for
I seed more than the box score.
Same might need to add a third account so he can seed his thumb rating in the positive.
Party at Yoda’s and stains house. Pens lost, those two enjoy when pens lose
What, Stan enjoys a loose penis?
Fleury just looks lost. Another minus for Lesuck.
-5. He had a good game.
How’s your mom’s game tonight
Better than letang’s. And she’s in her mid 70s.
In his defense Letang is playing for the Caps tonight.
Obviously Einstein. Letang is most used player chances are he will get minus the way team in front playing
Ah. Not how he’s playing. Got it.
Now even I feel bad for fleury.
True to form. Sam calls out the hbk line as the single line that looks bad, and then they score.
Been calling your hero all night hasn’t done anything yet must be the vodka he drank last night
That’s not English.
I would love to know what he sees when he watches hockey.
Probably visions of his man braiding his back hair.
Oh wait chubby scored I think it wasn’t even intentional. Another fraud
Man, I love Kunitz’s game. Guy plays with a nasty edge.
There is not one thing enjoyable about this game tonight. Best part. Game will be done in 7 mins and end this misery
Still time for Malkin to take another penalty.
Why he didn’t take enough ? He must be making it up for the last few games that he didn’t take.
Usually he has one good game then disappears for a few. Now he is using that same formula for his penalty department. Way a go. Got to love that 9.5. 4th liner grinder
Some
People seed him as a guy that plays one good game and disappears for a few.
Letang Shining with that -4! He might be the blame.
Didn’t stop Eddie O from praising Letang’s defensive game tonight. Can’t understand why that guy didn’t stick as a coach
Eddie O was the worst coach of pens history followed by DB
Mario’s boy.
Way to go out on a limb you Frog.
Neither of those two were the worst coach in Penguins history (but then again I remember before 2005)
It was at that exact point I stopped being mad at the game and giggled with every goal scored. I guess it’s better then him shitting on the Pens every chance tho
He’s extra whiney tonight as well.
Very reminiscent of flyers / pens in ’12
It would be a bigger train wreck if this was a playoff game.
How’s malkin tonight his name was announced few times from the time keeper he must be doing something right to get their attention
Pens should have dressed Scott Wilson.
Pens should sign Dumolin now before his value rebounds.
What value?
Thanks for reading my posts.
Poke check!
Can’t wait to see what will Yoda’s take be about tonight’s game. Meanwhile D is working hard tonight to post us a depressing instant buzz
Think Murray faked his injury to avoid this train wreck. Here MAF, you take it.
Is Kessel or his line playing tonight?
Right. that line. That’s the one that’s not playing.
That’s the line that gave ovi the breakaway goal. Good job bonino
Are you arguing that the other lines are playing well? Or even ok? Again, I know you’re still learning the game but they’re not
Stanch, this would be a different game with Marty St. Louis. We’d be up 5-1 and he’d be in line for his 4th game winner assist of the season.
Don’t even get me started. He’s been quiet this year again tho. Maybe the wrong situation.
What a dumb ass. Try TK you fool maybe with his useless shots pens would’ve scored 1 by now
You didn’t say they should get TK a day before he retires though….
Some clowns seed him as a potential top 6 when I wanted that clown gone in 2010
Seed him.
Seed!!!
And same was right once he will be gone from pens he would play with few teams and be out of job in early age and yup same was right TK is 30 and can say he is retired at this point maybe he is in a secret relationship with Shero
I can’t imagine we’re going to need a game winner assist update tomorrow…..
Malkin doesn’t need to be benched by the coach tonight he is benching himself all night he is at 6min penalty still another period to go
Every penny of that 9.5m is worth it
And only one game winner assist this year.
This is so bad I’m
Literally laughing at it! What a trainwreck of a game, give anything to be a fly on the wall in the dressing room. MS is gonna shit
4th liner paid like 1st liner is back in the box
Is he the blame?
Never
Cmon Sam. He has to be the blame.
Man. Letang needs to be benched. He’s also the blame.
Bench your mom you fat Democrat you clearly did not watch this game from the beginning
So I’m a democrat that fawns over Murray too much. Got it.
I’ve said this before, but seriously, this has to be a schtick. You can’t be this retarded. You just can’t be.
When Letang is bad he’s real bad.
On a positive note, gaydogg is predicting the Steelers are going to win the Super Bowl.
What the fuck is sid going? That clown should be benched next period. He is the blame.
Stanch, you still hanging out at the airport sucking off the free wifi
I’m back. Fun trip. You should ask your wife to let you go sometime. But it might still be a little tight with your budget.
I am going to Vegas Friday though….
Gay porn convention?
Please. If that was the case, you wouldn’t be using a question mark and would be offering to have your wife buy me a drink out there.
Maybe for prostitution
Just the norm Sam. You should see if your mom will loan you the money and go
Malkin our beloved Russian single handily sabotaged and killed this teams momentum. Well invested that 9.5m. Paid like a 1st liner plays like a 4th liner
Stupid fucken selfish penalty by Mal… wait… Crosby
Your Russian already made the damage who ever takes the penalty the damage is done by your hero
SIDS penalty. Also malkins fault. Zero. All of Canada can’t be this dumb. Is it just a French thing?
It seems to be focused out East. what’s criminal is the countries top university is in that province although French Speaking enrolment is relatively low
i could see how that’d be a challenge for them between the lack of intelligence and pungent BO
14 min to go for the second period of 4th odd man rush you see clowns when fleury is in net team plays more careless
Body language suggests they probably won’t claw back into this one… sloppy af
Pens suck tonite
That clown should be benched next period
Thank you malkin
Fleury will be in soon guys
Is he the blame there?
You saw how your American Cole let him dry while your Russian hero is in the box
My Russian hero stood up for his goalie. He’s likely not the blame.
Cole let him… what?? Dry?
What in the fuck is Malkin doin?
He is playing with care just ask stain
I said he was playing with care. Verbatim.
Is it just me or Murray is horrible tonight half the time he is diving on the ice trying to find the puck while he is beaten. Luckily caps are missing too many goal opportunities this game can easily be 4-0. Ever since caps scored shorthanded thanks to malkin the momentum killer. Pens seemed lost since
Are you saying he is the blame?
Hey shiit stain Crosby and letang suckss both -1. Yet your Murray is not the blame
Is not the blame!
That’s your Murray Stan, I’ve been keeping tabs on it and you are definitely too pro Murray and hate MAF too much. This is what we’ve seen for the past two years, sams on to something 😉
I may be the blame.
Lol
Another softy by Murray no worries folks team will bail him out just like they did in most of the last years playoffs. Now trade fleury Yoda
Yoda? Comments?
The coward won’t say boo about it, if he does he will justify it in a manner that directly contradicts everything he’s ever said about MAF
He got lucky there… too bad Johnasson wasn’t a 3rd liner then Murray could have poke checked
Sestito draws back in and chirping Wilson… I hope he fucken kills that guy!
Now that was 9.5m dollar pass I hope you enjoyed that play Stain
Actually. Jessel put him in a no win situation there. But you’re still learning the game. So you get a pass.
#BlackLivesMatter
Good one chubby
Moving this post to the top – Jay, you’re already on the hook for your prediction that Scott Wilson will score 23 goals. Do you want to double down and bet me that the Steelers wont win the Super Bowl.
When did I predict that Wilson would score 23 goals? I posted that he was on pace to score 23 goals but there a big difference between that and saying I thought he would actually score 23. I know simple comprehension can be difficult for you at times but I didn’t think something so simple would still be way over your head.
So you’re backing away from you assessment that Wilson was playing well based on your calculation he was on pace to score 23 goals. After all that’s why you felt he deserved to be in the line up.
He doesn’t seem to be backing away from any assessment. He’s telling you your original post was inaccurate. Which it was.
Pretty sure I never gave an assessment of Wilson, I’ve never said 1 way or the other about how I personal feel about his play. I simply pointed out that at the point you had seen enough to know he sucked he was actually playing well. I’m sure that surprises no one though.
you are a horrible prophet jay. if you had the vision like i did you would have realized that the pens were hopeless with your saint in goal. murray in the net, bleury on the pine = stanley cup. i am your phophet. bow down
“They need to tear it down…wait – what? They just won a cup with the same team I said they had to dismantle 6 weeks ago?!?!” -our prophet – and his impeccable “vision”
This post is absolutely classic. Let’s start with the fact that never once have I ever given a prophecy and I rarely if ever make predictions of how I think things will play out, then let’s look at the fact that you claim to be an prophet even though you are almost never right about anything you predict(including them winning last year when you predicted they would miss the playoffs long after they changed the coach and Murray was in net). This post like the rest is nothing but 1 gigantic delusional lie.
GAME WINNER ASSIST UPDATE:
Big Ian Cole jumps out to the lead. Who would have seen THAT coming!
Cole – 2
Hornqvist – 1
Kuhnhackl – 1
Cullen – 1
Wilson – 1
Schultz – 1
Maatta – 1
Sestito – 1
Fehr – 1
Malkin – 1
Rust – 1
Habs looked good last night. #contender
Get fuckedd you punk
Your mom gets fucked, by all the gay black democrats
Tuitt got pancaked, but is laying forward on the pile at the LOS? Do you even know what being pancaked means?
What if Hayward s injury was serious and good?
Now there is 7-subscribers.
Welcome. if you’re going to be on this site you need to pick sides right away. Do you think Fleury is a choke artist or a HOA goalie?
HOA?
Hall of Asshats…sorry typo HOF
he sucks
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Eric Lindros should have been inducted into the HOA!
D any way you can fix pens salary Chart
pens no longer have , Bennett,Gayjoy and Jerkoff in their roster
So are the people that check tickets at the gates considered to be “inside the industry”? How about the peanut vendor? Outside of them I can’t think of any “inside the industry” that would sink low enough to talk to this site.
Hybrid cars? i thought we were talking about hybrid animals
the pirates are going to absolutely suck next year. mccutchen will be gone, they’ll get another vogelsong type in free agency, and then they will lose 90 games. F them. they are jokes.
I stopped watching the Pirates in 1993. You’d have to be a moron to continue following this franchise.
so you are calling npl a moron ?
i’m a fair weathered fan. you have to be with those jokes. i had fun when they were in the wildcard games and the playoffs, but it’s back to who cares time again.
the difference between past penguin teams and the current penguin team is the pens have the best young goaltender in the NHL. murray already beat holtby and lundqvist and this spring he will do it again.
So now you’re saying that Murray scores goals as well? That’s pretty much the only way Murray could single-handedly beat either Holtby or Lundqvist. Now if you would have said that the Pittsburgh Penguins with Murray as their starter beat the Washington Capitals with Holtby as their starter or the New York Rangers with Lundqvist as their starter I would have actually agreed with you but since Murray wasn’t responsible for scoring any of the goals in either of those series it’s completely impossible for Murray to have beaten anyone.
For the record, it was Zak that beat the Rangers and (cue Trump voice) “everyone knows it”.
that was a dumb paragraph.
Probably because you had trouble understanding half of it.
Last spring you said they had to tear it down. Pardon me if I consider your word to be worth as much as the last shitt I took.
i said tear it down when your smiley faced saint and cult leader was the goaltender. new goalie, new coach. all is well…..and i loooooooooooooooooooooooooove it!
This is a proven lie. You made this comment up to the playoffs. You’re a career fraud.
You do know that we read each others shit… beyond you sticking with the blow it up narrative after Murray and the new coach were in place you have been suggesting it all summer too.
What a lazy article. Too many ‘hybrid’ players? I’d love to know all these hybrid players the Steelers have drafted. Tuitt is a prototypical 34 DE, Jones is just unathletic (not hybrid), Shazier is one that I could agree with being considered a hybrid player. Burns, Davis, Dupree, Golson, Coates, Jones, Bell, Wheaton, etc. None are hybrid players. Some of them might be oft injured or not very good, but none are hybrid.
Shazier isnt a hybrid player, he’s an undesized ILB, or better a fit as a OLB in a 4-3.
Rooting for the Brown this week. Blow this shit up! Worst case, Steelers slip into the playoffs (you know this is going to happen). Everyone praises Tomlin for turning it around before the Steelers lose in the first round. After the Game Big Ben will apologize and say “I have to be better.”
when will depaoli apologize and say, “I have to be better?”
Based on the traffic on this site, there’s no reason to be better. There are 6 paying subscribers here, netting DePaoli roughly $75 per year.
I wonder how much this site is costing him yearly then
I’ve been wondering all these things for a while now. Anyone have an answer!?
Depending on how much he does himself and how much he has to pay others to do it goes from very cheap to very expensive. I would imagine it costs him less than $100/year to maintain the site. The majority of the expense would have been in the initial setup but I’m sure that was no issue because there was a point early on when this was a quality site that had good traffic.
This is the most encouraging thing I’ve seen all season, all we need now is for Yoda to predict that the Steelers can’t win and it all but guarantees a Superbowl victory.
Jay, you’re already on the hook for your prediction that Scott Wilson will score 23 goals. Do you weant to double down and bet me that the Steelers wont win the Super Bowl.