The Pittsburgh Penguins surprised everyone by re-signing Alex Nedeljkovic on Thursday and that’s where Hunter and Patrick start Friday’s show. They dive into what this means for the goaltending this upcoming season and how the Penguins need to utilize Nedeljkovic. They also dive into how they have more questions than answers right now with this position before looking at what this means for Tristan Jarry. Will he get traded this offseason? Is it smart to have almost $8 million tied up into goaltending? Is it riskier to go into the season with Nedeljkovic and Blomqvist? Finally, they preview Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night and ponder whether the Panthers will finally close it out or if we’ll get to hear La Bamba one more time.
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We have to get Pat to pronounce Joel’s first name correctly! It’s YO-EL. It’s okay Pat, lol
If the Pens waived Jarry tomorrow, he would still be a Penguin two days from now. Dubas is not giving up picks to get rid of Jarry, and nobody wants that contract right now. Jarry and Ned is the tandem, I can't see anything else. But if one of them doesn't perform, Joel will take his spot. The goalie situation is not bad for the Pens.
Great show guy's!! I have zero idea where Dubas is going? He's hard to figure out? It's basically "HIS" team so it's squarely on his shoulders. I had Florida in 7. Be nice to get it done tonight though.
If the boys can give the goalies some more goal support and not expect them not to give up fewer than 2 goals every night they should be in good shape if we get the same performance as last year
I have no idea what direction Dubas is going with the goalies. I feel like it's 50/50, he might just be planning to have a Ned and Jarry tandem again, or he might be really high on Blomqvist and have something in the works to move Jarry. Time will tell I guess. I swear Dubas is a mystery, there's never any credible rumors or anything with him lol.
The idea of using Jarry/Ned as a true tandem a la Swayman/Ullmark is a compelling one. Not saying either are on the same level as the Boston goalies, but perhaps the team is testing the POSSIBILITY that Jarry could rise to Sway-level performance with the lower workload, as you suggested. Very interested to see what happens with this team next season (which surely must start in a couple of weeks given how loooooong these playoffs have gone)
I'm expecting a Kevin Weekes coverage from you Hunter if a major Pens move happens ;]
Signing Ned gives the Pens some flexibility, if Jarry struggles. Based on this past season, they trust him to do pretty well. If Blomqvist is doing well in WBS, they can, possibly, move Jarry, rely on Ned, and call Joel up as the backup.
Personally, I suspect that Quinn's hiring will fix a lot of the defensive breakdowns, so we may see Jarry have a career year, and get back to being between the top five to top ten form.
I personally would've probably just ran Jarry/Blom – but i cant complain about this.
Jarry/Ned carried this team at the beginning of the season and were an elite tandem up until March 1st when the team just refused to play defense anymore.
Give Jarry some more off nights – maybe a 60/40 split – and have the team play average defense, and this is a great tandem
I like Ned, even though he's a dirty Browns fan. 🤣
Hunter Hodies with that smooth radio voice,, always a pleasure seeing your videos I thank you very much and I hope your summer is going well
I think signing NED was a great move – he’s a GREAT teammate – good for the locker room & the bench – good for the guys . his interviews always seemed like he was just “for the team”
& got really down on himself when he thought he let the team down .
I’ll take that any day over some a-hole coming in all about himself .
that’s how the Pittsburgh Penguins Way … we’re trying to preserve our culture here by keeping the CORE here – & any new guy that comes in will be welcomed in the Pittsburgh Penguins Fashion … which I’m sure is better than most of the teams – & I think NED got that right away & wanted a do-over with this team knowing how great that feeling was those last 14 games of the season (for the players & Us fans)
Not sure I like this tandem again this season. Nothing against jarry or ned, but they are not elite level goaltenders who can steal games and the pens defense is not very good in front of them. Pens don't have the defenseman to move bodies from the net front