Kyle Dubas gives his mini State of the Penguins address

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1. how about Kyle just say okay we suck I didn't think we're going to suck this bad and I'm going to fix it 🥶

2. for me ownership and gm and not doing good job being honesty what there doing like when they told us and even sid were gonna be good but your playing like lottery team they just klook stupid for saying that like you just like backstab and lie to sid to make him sign the contract so you get your tickets sales like i feel bad for sid that got betrayed from that

3. Pressure, we gotta suck to get get Haggens, that rat with McGroarty, we can build the black and gold philosophy of smash-mouth style play. Tankathon 2025 and 2026 here we come.

4. I'm getting tired of seeing Mike Sullivan chewing gum on the bench.

5. I like some of these rules that could boost offense. But I think doing it like baseball where the rules are only regular season would be the best. I love the authentic and traditional style of the game in the playoffs and I wouldn’t want that touched

6. Bench Karlsson.. losing with him and Jarry should never be in the net.

7. Drew O'Connor should get scratched for a game. He should be the one coming out for Hayes on Friday (if he comes back then). We haven't seen much of Ponomarev because he's had such little time on ice. These young guys could really inject some life into this lineup, but we aren't seeing the same level of trust between Sully and the young guys like we once did when Sully first got hired so many years ago. I'm not sure if that's due to these guys not being Sullys guys, but it needs to change. The young players need to be able to feel trusted by the head coach without fear of being benched or scratched.

8. The biggest thing that the Pens could do, right now, to improve results is to change the system, and that will, most likely, require a coaching change. The players have shown, for the last few seasons, that they cannot play Sully's system like they used to play it. Far too many times when the defensemen "activate" and no forward drops back to cover the blue line.
   Far too many times when you have both defensemen and one or two forwards getting trapped behind their own goal line, leaving opponents free reign in front of the net.

9. I like the rule that the PWHL had for the penalty kill jailbreak. If you're on the power play and give up a shorthanded goal, your power play ends.

10. Yeah, let’s retool around a 37 year old. Smart.

11. They could create a category of penalties between a two minute minor and a five minute major, like a two minute major, which, like you'd suggested, does not expire with a power play goal, and lasts the full two minutes. You could also add a five minute minor category, granting a man advantage for five minutes, or until a goal is scored, whichever happens first.

12. Fire Dubas. Send him back to Canada, eh? And punt FSG into the Atlantic.