Maybe everyone, inside and outside, could use a couple deep breaths.
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I like the direction this team is headed. Maybe not this season but they have some good pieces for the future. Some decisions have to be made at the end of the season. I think respectfully Letang needs to hang them up along with cutting some other dead weight
Love the take on Koivunen but I have a genuine question: Why are we so against getting a lottery pick? While Kindel appears to be an absolute gem, we still lack that blue-chip, sure thing defensive prospect and we could use a little more center depth. Once Crosby and Malkin retire you have Kindel and who? Getting a McKenna, Stenberg, Verhoeff, or a Lawrence changes everything. That gives you Kindel, McGroarty, Horcoff, Koivunen if he finds his game, Hallander, and potentially guys like Broz, Zonnon, Howe, Ilyin with defensive guys Pickering, Brunicke and then you can throw one of those aforementioned top prospects up as a young core to build around with Murashov/Blomqvist backstopping (I know other prospects are performing well in their respective leagues but as it stands they seem most likely to be successful NHL players). Dubas could unload Mantha and Braz at the deadline and even a Rakell/Rust and get a first + a couple seconds or decent prospects. That gives you absurd draft capital and if you just nail a couple of the crazy number of high value picks in the '26 draft and you're well on your way to being a team like the Sharks/Ducks/Mammoth. When you have all your firsts + 9 second round picks in the next four drafts, you can truly build an entire youth core with that and it lets some of them get experience under Crosby. I just don't see how anyone can see this team beating the Avs/Stars/Oilers/Canes/etc in a best of seven series. I care more about long-term success than trying to sneak into the playoffs to potentially win a single round.
Enjoy the confidence vacuum that is Stuart Skinner. For the life of him, the man can not make the saves he needs to make. He’s slow, awkward, and doesn’t have the hockey IQ to contribute meaningfully to bolstering defence. Stu is incapable of saving games. He’s such a coin flip. He can shut out the best teams in the league one game, and be a sieve against even the most disorganized competition the next. He is what he is. And I’m sorry you had to be stuck with him. He will deflate that locker room.
Invite Skinner to all your parties, great guy, but in professional sports, no cup with drinking buddies, in the nhl😂
A good team overcomes adversity and finds a way. They can't wait around for somebody to do something. The 4 min pp was the same old problem, set up and wait for the perfect shot to fail. Quick strikes get the teams and goalies in a bad position. No trades will change this. You play with what you got. It was good enough before, it's good enough now. The flame needs turned up under their butts.
no changes on the eastern front
Tied for last in the east in wins. 13m in cap room.
Make no mistake, this team is cooked
Hey DK, I am up in the arctic working, my job is watching out for polar bears….and for those that don’t know, there are no penguins up here. But every other day I make sure to stream the Pittsburgh Penguins for my entertainment. Instead I have not been entertained I have been aggravated to the point I don’t want to tune into every game. It’s becoming predictable, my comment yesterday says it all, I figured on 7 goals against, figured both 97 and 29 to get five points each, so I was off…..the oilers had an easy time with the Penguins , and who cares about the late goals, let’s stop making excuses for this team, enough is enough. Line one 5 on 5 is compromised by one guy and doesn’t match up, you figure out who I am talking about. The defense is compromised by many things but one guy nightly struggles more than most, you can guess! The goal tending hasn’t been going well, but it’s a ripple effect, the team is horrendous in their own zone. But…..hey they have Danton Heinen out there, he’s been a difference maker, last night that late goal will probably get him going so he can finish up with 2! It’s the same players, same line ups, it’s time for Dubas to chop some heads, because where I sit, even when this team is going good, is a forty minute team, they chase the game frantically for the other twenty. They lack serious depth, serious skill, serious finish….and that includes some in top six. This team is not playoff bound.
Hey DK
Sid wasn't Sid last night. Looked very disinterested. Reason?
Prediction. Pens miss the playoffs by a few points.
They were just out classed. Edm cam be a playoff team. Pens aren't there yet.