Pens vs Islanders 11-1-18

fractalsteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:04 pm **Posts:** 3226

Letang is a game-time decision.
Forwards need to be better defensively.

Penguins projected lineup
Jake Guentzel -- Sidney Crosby -- Dominik Simon

Carl Hagelin -- Evgeni Malkin -- Phil Kessel

Riley Sheahan -- Matt Cullen -- Patric Hornqvist

Bryan Rust -- Derek Grant -- Daniel Sprong

Brian Dumoulin -- Kris Letang

Olli Maatta -- Jamie Oleksiak

Jack Johnson -- Chad Ruhwedel

Matt Murray

Casey DeSmith

Scratched: Juuso Riikola

Injured: Derick Brassard (lower body)

Orangesteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:22 am **Posts:** 10850

Really want this one after getting pummeled the other night at home. LGP

fractalsteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:04 pm **Posts:** 3226

Have to take back the mo to start the second. That Isle PP seemed to spark them.

I know he is the whipping boy but about the only thing I see JJ bring to the table are a few big hits a game. The penalty he took wasn't very bright. He could have pinched the guy on the wall but he chose to hook him. There was a forward back if the Isle got by JJ and that is part of the problem-I don't think he sees the whole ice well.
Even Errey is ragging on him.
Last game JJ had the point and he deked a few shots trying to move the defender but the defender stood his ground. If JJ had just moved and used a deke he might have gotten his shot off.

Louis Lipps Service · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:55 pm **Posts:** 2183

No idea what Letang was doing at the end of that PP. He just let his guy skate right by him to be wide open for that pass.

Orangesteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:22 am **Posts:** 10850

What a sloppy ass goal given up there by the Pens. Jeesh

fractalsteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:04 pm **Posts:** 3226

Louis Lipps Service wrote:

No idea what Letang was doing at the end of that PP. He just let his guy skate right by him to be wide open for that pass.

That whole sequence was weird. The Pens overpassed the puck and missed guys with better shots and the next thing you know the puck is behind a bewildered Letang.
Funny thing, the Pens started that PP the same way the Isles ended it shorthanded.

Orangesteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:22 am **Posts:** 10850

If we lose this game on that weak ass goal...

Orangesteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:22 am **Posts:** 10850

Geno!

fractalsteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:04 pm **Posts:** 3226

Good to get one by Greis.

Louis Lipps Service · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:55 pm **Posts:** 2183

I bitched and moaned when the NHL first introduced 3v3 overtime...but goddam do I ever love it now.

Louis Lipps Service · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:55 pm **Posts:** 2183

Welp, can't go 0-3 in a shootout and expect to win it.

Helluva game by Murray, I thought.

I'll take the point.

Orangesteel · **Joined:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:22 am **Posts:** 10850

Well that’s about as shitty a SO as you will see. Bailey owned Murray tonight and Murray actually played well. Lame.

bam morris · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:18 pm **Posts:** 11105

sucks losing 2 back to back to islanders! :roll:

Hacksaw Jim Duggan · **Joined:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:43 pm **Posts:** 959

I finally figured out Jack Johnson.

You know those fathers who play games with their sons. Like, let's say a father is playing hockey with his 5-year-old son. He can outskate him. He can easily deke him out. He can bowl him over and blow the puck past him. He's pretty much superior to his son by 100-fold.

Yet, he will pull up short. He'll intentionally lose the puck. He'll shoot it at a snails pace. The father will give his son every opportunity to win.

That is Jack Johnson. He looks the part. He has all the tools. Yet when he gets out there, it's like he wants the other team to win.

Ice · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:13 am

I'm going to watch the next game through that filter, Hacksaw.

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