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Sleeper agent

February 27, 2020, 8:31 AM ET [143 Comments]
Ryan Wilson
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The Night Owl Club was out in full force last night in Los Angeles. The Penguins did not earn a positive result to reward those staying up past their bed time. They scored a lone goal and lost the game 2-1 to the second worst team in the NHL. It is the team’s fourth loss in a row. They are now four points behind the Washington Capitals for first in the league with the Philadelphia Flyers(!) trailing only by a single point.

That is the bad news. The good news is the Penguins really didn’t play all that bad. They dominated large stretches of the game and this is one of those times where the process and results didn’t match up. It is frustrating to drop a game to the Kings, but this wasn’t a situation where the team laid an egg. Their biggest problems should be solved in the near future with the return of Brian Dumoulin and John Marino who are making strides to return to the lineup.

Is Jack Johnson a sleeper agent for his former team? Tough to argue against it last night. He was terrible and this sequence was the game winning goal




















Jesse is being kind. Johnson does not have a place in the lineup. If you consistently tank the value of the best players in the league you don’t have a place. We knew this in July of 2018 and we know this now. There is no data set that points to him treading water with other players let alone lifting them up. He is a drag to anybody. Even Sidney Crosby can’t escape it. Sidney Crosby!


*2019-20 season

Sidney Crosby drops to a 37.76 xGF% with Johnson! 37.76. It is a 20% reduction in quality for one of the best players who has ever played the game. Crosby isn’t washed. He’s still great. What are we even doing?

“He’s been better this year!”


Nope.

Bench him for Riikola when Dumoulin comes back. Period.

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