DK’s Daily Shot of Penguins: The Bunting issue

16 comments

1. 😶

2. I think it’s finally gotten to the time where maybe a coaching change is the drastic thing that is needed to try to turn things around.

3. Could we trade sully?

4. Crosby won't finish here. It's coming.

5. Lol he's not the only one..

6. Yep time for a coaching change! That’s what all the other teams would do! Dumbas needs to do that thing!!

7. Fire Sully

8. The Erik Karlsson trade was so poorly thought out, and yet morons will still defend to the death how great of a trade it was. You dont generally win a trade if you wind up with the asset that is least movable in said trade.

9. The penguins gave their head coach the most power in the organization, a recipe for disaster. Chickens now coming home to roost.

10. The fact that bunting was a scratch and they still played glass and doc is eye opening

11. Time to scratch Sully

12. Screening the goalie is a concern but it's certainly not in the realm of this teams defense and that's a knock on every player on the team. The amount of high danger chances they allow is abysmal. They are just too slow in every which way. It is what it is.

13. Advanced analytics for the most part is useless. One 2-on-1 counter-attack chance is better than minutes of zone time with countless shots from the perimeter, but CORSI will tell you the latter is way better. One screened point shot from 40 feet is better than 5 unscreened shots from 20 feet, but every advanced analytics will tell you the latter is way better. And one shot from the slot from … say Nikita Kucherov … is way more dangerous that 10 shots from … say Dominic Simon. But advanced analytics will tell you that you want those volume shots from Simon, instead of the shot from Kucherov.

14. The Pens are 4th in Expected Goals For/60, but they're 30th in defense. Maybe that's the problem, and not DK's flawed understanding of the current state of NHL analytics?

    Seriously dude, it's not 2014 anymore. No one uses Corsi.

15. J1Q, DK: The observation was made on X that not only is the Penguins' defense shambolic, but that even the most veteran members of the team seem strangely lost within a system they've been executing for years. I struggle to reduce that to an issue of personnel. I don't feel like Sullivan has lost anyone's respect or that he's being rejected, but I am increasingly persuaded that his time of leading, inspiring, amd motivating this team is past, and actually that the wise and appropriate moment to hire a new coach would have been prior to the start of this season. What's your take?

16. How is it that Petterson is getting so much worse? St ivany took a big step backwards. The defense got worse somehow.