madmike71
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA Joined: 12.21.2006
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What a great game by the Pens. |
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Trade Murray while his value is high |
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Thorny87
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Calgary, AB Joined: 10.17.2014
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Gladly eating my crow. Great game MM.
Pens like a completely different team tonight. |
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acdc1206
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Fire Sullivan, PA Joined: 06.13.2007
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Terrific effort from the start. |
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VeryModernMan
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Munich Joined: 06.06.2017
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MM shootouts Leafs... take that, haters. |
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powerhouse
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Columbia , MD Joined: 11.28.2006
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Aussiepenguin
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Sydney Joined: 08.02.2014
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MattStrat
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
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Well.. that was refreshing.
What's up with their 2nd periods this year? They're usually garbage.
Weren't they the best 2nd period team in the league last year? 🤔 |
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MattStrat
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
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Gladly eating my crow. Great game MM.
Pens like a completely different team tonight. - Thorny87
Playing up to their competition. Their defensive hustle and pressure in all zones was outstanding for the most part... 2nd was a bit rough but ya gotta expect periods of pushback from a potent team like the Leafs. |
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Aussiepenguin
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Sydney Joined: 08.02.2014
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Tomorrow's blog heading;
New Pens Dman gets it all over former Pens Cup winning Dman?? |
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Rinosaur
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Somewhere, NJ Joined: 01.21.2016
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What a great game by the Pens. - madmike71
Happy with the win. Happy with Murray.
I don't think this was a great game from the Pens. It was a GOOD game, but they were still largely outplayed, but the effort was there.
Baby steps, but a good win against a better team. Can't be mad. |
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Thorny87
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Calgary, AB Joined: 10.17.2014
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Playing up to their competition. Their defensive hustle and pressure in all zones was outstanding for the most part... 2nd was a bit rough but ya gotta expect periods of pushback from a potent team like the Leafs. - MattStrat
They basically did everything they weren’t doing against Montreal and Van. The D really stepped up. Some great hits, good support and some tape to tape passes. Nice to see. |
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madmike71
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA Joined: 12.21.2006
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Happy with the win. Happy with Murray.
I don't think this was a great game from the Pens. It was a GOOD game, but they were still largely outplayed, but the effort was there.
Baby steps, but a good win against a better team. Can't be mad. - Rinosaur
You think we were outplayed? Strange, I don't see it that way at all. I thought the Pens were the better team through most of the game....minus some of the 2nd. |
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MattStrat
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
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Happy with the win. Happy with Murray.
I don't think this was a great game from the Pens. It was a GOOD game, but they were still largely outplayed, but the effort was there.
Baby steps, but a good win against a better team. Can't be mad. - Rinosaur
They had a better 2nd but Pens had better game overall all.
Babcock "we had no room". They weren't getting second chances and were forced to the outside alot. |
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Victoro311
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: San Diego, CA Joined: 06.17.2014
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So are we not panicking anymore, or... |
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MattStrat
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
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So are we not panicking anymore, or... - Victoro311
Never panicking but I'm hoping the play down/play up to opponent trend, that I started noticing last year, isn't a thing this year. So far it seems to be. You see what they're capable of tonight. So there's no excuse to not see this or close to this most nights.. |
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Rinosaur
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Somewhere, NJ Joined: 01.21.2016
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You think we were outplayed? Strange, I don't see it that way at all. I thought the Pens were the better team through most of the game....minus some of the 2nd. - madmike71
I thought the Leafs had more quality chances than the Pens. The Pens definitely controlled a portion of the game, but overall I thought the leafs were better.
Murray was the real x-factor.
Again, the Pens played a good game, but IMO not a great game. Maybe I’m nitpicking. |
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Thorny87
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Calgary, AB Joined: 10.17.2014
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I thought the Leafs had more quality chances than the Pens. The Pens definitely controlled a portion of the game, but overall I thought the leafs were better.
Murray was the real x-factor.
Again, the Pens played a good game, but IMO not a great game. Maybe I’m nitpicking. - Rinosaur
Some solid play in front of Murray. The D were staying with their man, boxing out and tying up sticks. Definitely Riikolas best reg season game. JJ played well too. |
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Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs |
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Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON Joined: 02.12.2013
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Happy with the win. Happy with Murray.
I don't think this was a great game from the Pens. It was a GOOD game, but they were still largely outplayed, but the effort was there.
Baby steps, but a good win against a better team. Can't be mad. - Rinosaur
Wow...that's what I thought...but the other way around. Pens went to work on the Leafs. Leafs had a few good shifts, which can be expected, but I was wondering how the Pens could have lost any games this year the way they played tonight. |
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Never panicking but I'm hoping the play down/play up to opponent trend, that I started noticing last year, isn't a thing this year. So far it seems to be. You see what they're capable of tonight. So there's no excuse to not see this or close to this most nights.. - MattStrat
They've been doing that for at least six years in the Crosby-Malkin era |
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Victoro311
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: San Diego, CA Joined: 06.17.2014
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So I was looking at the box since I missed the game tonight. Matt Cullen had 23 shifts tonight. That’s only two less than Kessel, same as Hornqvist, and more Guentzel and Brassard. Isn’t that level of deployment the exact thing we should be avoiding with a 40+ year old during the regular season? |
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MattStrat
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
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They've been doing that for at least six years in the Crosby-Malkin era - Guile
I think when Sullivan first started up until last year we didn't see much of it. |
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MattStrat
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
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So I was looking at the box since I missed the game tonight. Matt Cullen had 23 shifts tonight. That’s only two less than Kessel, same as Hornqvist, and more Guentzel and Brassard. Isn’t that level of deployment the exact thing we should be avoiding with a 40+ year old during the regular season? - Victoro311
Haha yeah man... But he was really solid last night. |
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Grinder47
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Somerset, PA Joined: 10.20.2013
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“The kind of players that attract people to the sport”. 2 or best selling jersey in every city=the guy who fights. But hey the Pens played a good game. |
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joecool2931
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Rillton, PA Joined: 09.03.2015
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I don't think the leafs splitting up their pp units was dumb at all. Leafs fans female doged about it all year but.Their pp was second in the league at 25 percent. I think Pittsburgh was first.
Still, I very much enjoy this years pp. Careful though, our random second unit is also getting it done.
Yea people female doged about it in Pittsburgh too, but we never really tried it. I actually liked our 2nd PP last year with 2 D men, granted they usually only got about 15 seconds a penatly. would have liked to see Shultz and letang on the first PP unit for a couple PP shifts, just to see what it looked like. |
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