lol nobody in pens media has agreed with me since dubas's first presser. I was right though. look at the evidence. I watched him for 6 years in toronto. he's making exactly the same mistakes, only that the core in toronto were on the upswing of the career. you make the mistakes when your core is waning and you have big trouble. I said FSG would fire him within 3-4 years. I stand by that. I said it in toronto in 2018, you build from the back out. he let freddy go, he spend 11.5 on JT and the D was Reilly and Hainsey…. that was our TOP pairing. can't win like that.
I can see Karlsson was turned around and late to react on the first two goals, but First Goal: Martinook hits the neutral zone with speed, bumps and passes O’Connor, who lets him by, stops trying to backcheck, coasts, and lets Martinook get to the net alone. Second Goal: this time it’s Glass, who whiffs on his coverage, stops skating and back checking, to create a 3 on 1. Some of these forwards are not trying to defend. That puts a lot of pressure on the D and Ned.
Good god! How do Crosby and Malkin stomach this crap? They’re doing all they can do.
If we can’t find a Mark Methot type for Karlsson then he’s gotta go. He’s more risk than benefit having him on the ice. So what if he can skate and pass. He’s a pylon in his own end.
We're sure you'll have some more too Erik.
Grzelcyk literally stood in Neds way. He looks like he's playing without a brain. Shea and Graves were largely the best defenders on the ice. I want Shea and St. Ivany BACK together like they were at the end of last year
This defense corps is honestly a joke. Ryan Shea and St. Ivany are AHL players, Grzelcyk could barely crack the Bruins lineup last season and now he's on the first pair here, Graves is Graves, Karlsson never could play defense but now he isn't producing offense either, and Letang isn't himself this season. So that leaves Pettersson as basically the only decent defensemen right now.
That miss on the double minor in the 1st was huge…it was lackluster…it kind of sums up this team…they don't play with a sense of urgency…and if they do, it's only in spurts…not good enough for a team who's boat is taking on water…and I usually don't say positives about HCMS, but Mike Sullivan is trying everything (doing things he hasn't done in a long time ) to save the ship
Does anyone think EK is still injured?
hmmm Karlsson being awful so he can't be traded. Yeah, that's the ticket!
I believe Malkin is the laziest player on this team.
Bench his 10 mill ass
Bench Karlsson and Graves already!! Absolutely friggin ridiculous that they think that these guys even deserve any more ice time. How about some accountability!?! I would rather see some young prospects given an opportunity to learn and possibly earn a spot on the Pens roster than watch this debacle game after game. Seriously! Do SOMETHING!! ANYTHING!!
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lol nobody in pens media has agreed with me since dubas's first presser. I was right though. look at the evidence. I watched him for 6 years in toronto. he's making exactly the same mistakes, only that the core in toronto were on the upswing of the career. you make the mistakes when your core is waning and you have big trouble. I said FSG would fire him within 3-4 years. I stand by that. I said it in toronto in 2018, you build from the back out. he let freddy go, he spend 11.5 on JT and the D was Reilly and Hainsey…. that was our TOP pairing. can't win like that.
I can see Karlsson was turned around and late to react on the first two goals, but First Goal: Martinook hits the neutral zone with speed, bumps and passes O’Connor, who lets him by, stops trying to backcheck, coasts, and lets Martinook get to the net alone. Second Goal: this time it’s Glass, who whiffs on his coverage, stops skating and back checking, to create a 3 on 1. Some of these forwards are not trying to defend. That puts a lot of pressure on the D and Ned.
Good god! How do Crosby and Malkin stomach this crap? They’re doing all they can do.
If we can’t find a Mark Methot type for Karlsson then he’s gotta go. He’s more risk than benefit having him on the ice. So what if he can skate and pass. He’s a pylon in his own end.
We're sure you'll have some more too Erik.
Grzelcyk literally stood in Neds way. He looks like he's playing without a brain. Shea and Graves were largely the best defenders on the ice. I want Shea and St. Ivany BACK together like they were at the end of last year
This defense corps is honestly a joke. Ryan Shea and St. Ivany are AHL players, Grzelcyk could barely crack the Bruins lineup last season and now he's on the first pair here, Graves is Graves, Karlsson never could play defense but now he isn't producing offense either, and Letang isn't himself this season. So that leaves Pettersson as basically the only decent defensemen right now.
That miss on the double minor in the 1st was huge…it was lackluster…it kind of sums up this team…they don't play with a sense of urgency…and if they do, it's only in spurts…not good enough for a team who's boat is taking on water…and I usually don't say positives about HCMS, but Mike Sullivan is trying everything (doing things he hasn't done in a long time ) to save the ship
Does anyone think EK is still injured?
hmmm Karlsson being awful so he can't be traded. Yeah, that's the ticket!
I believe Malkin is the laziest player on this team.
Bench his 10 mill ass
Bench Karlsson and Graves already!! Absolutely friggin ridiculous that they think that these guys even deserve any more ice time. How about some accountability!?! I would rather see some young prospects given an opportunity to learn and possibly earn a spot on the Pens roster than watch this debacle game after game. Seriously! Do SOMETHING!! ANYTHING!!