Pens make more cuts...

[Idoit40fans]

D23!!!!!

[Va Beach Pens Fan]

Another wonderful copy & paste job by Mr. Insider....

[KG]

Another wonderful copy & paste job by Mr. Insider....

To be fair. He had it listed on his site before any other site that I saw...

[cojac]

Pens can carry 24 players for the European Vacation, so all 3 goalies will go.

IR-Gonchar, Whitney

WBS-Pesonen, James, Thomas, Richmond

Bissonette is needed for toughness, Scuderi as the 7th D

**Scuderi is missing, Lovejoy was already sent to WBS

[WWGRD]

This is what they should take to Sweden

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Staal-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Talbot-Fedotenko
Godard-Taffe-Kennedy

Bissonnette

Orpik-Gill
Letang-Eaton
Sydor-Goligoski

Richmond, Scuderi

Fleury
Sabou
Curry

[Idoit40fans]

You think they'll put Gill and Orpik together? Or are they just placeholders? I'd like to see Sydor up on the top pair with Orpik then Gill with either Letang or Gogo.

[JoseCuervo]

Pez should definitely go to Sweden.

[Idoit40fans]

You should go to Sweden.

[Defence21]

This is what they should take to Sweden

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Staal-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Talbot-Fedotenko
Godard-Taffe-Kennedy

Bissonnette

Orpik-Gill
Letang-Eaton
Sydor-Goligoski

Richmond, Scuderi

Fleury
Sabou
Curry

You think two defensive extras and one forward extra? I'd be very surprised at that right now. If the entire defense was healthy, I could see it, as all 8 defenders are NHL-caliber. But what's the sense of having Richmond as a healthy scratch -- especially when Bissonnette can fill in as a defender if the team was in need.

[KG]

This is what they should take to Sweden

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Staal-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Talbot-Fedotenko
Godard-Taffe-Kennedy

Bissonnette

Orpik-Gill
Letang-Eaton
Sydor-Goligoski

Richmond, Scuderi

Fleury
Sabou
Curry

No Gonchar really kills the appeal of that D. Losing Whitney we can handle...But no Gonchar is rough!

[bhaw]

No Gonchar really kills the appeal of that D. Losing Whitney we can handle...But no Gonchar is rough!

Definitely knocks it down a notch, but there are still at least 6 NHL caliber players with Goligoski's status pending.

[WWGRD]

This is what they should take to Sweden

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Staal-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Talbot-Fedotenko
Godard-Taffe-Kennedy

Bissonnette

Orpik-Gill
Letang-Eaton
Sydor-Goligoski

Richmond, Scuderi

Fleury
Sabou
Curry

You think two defensive extras and one forward extra? I'd be very surprised at that right now. If the entire defense was healthy, I could see it, as all 8 defenders are NHL-caliber. But what's the sense of having Richmond as a healthy scratch -- especially when Bissonnette can fill in as a defender if the team was in need.

Good point. Add in Pesonen then.

[JoseCuervo]

You should go to Sweden.

This is quite possibly the most useless hour I've ever spent in the computer lab. I consider WW more productive than this.

[Mongoose87]

I wouldn't be surprised if Gogo sees some time with the big club, since our top offensive d-men are out.

[Idoit40fans]

You should go to Sweden.

This is quite possibly the most useless hour I've ever spent in the computer lab. I consider WW more productive than this.

I should go look at my last 15 or so posts, i'm sure they are all pretty worthless. I feel a lot less lazy right now though because I just scheduled an interview, so I shouldn't be expected to do anything until then.

[Idoit40fans]

This is what they should take to Sweden

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Staal-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Talbot-Fedotenko
Godard-Taffe-Kennedy

Bissonnette

Orpik-Gill
Letang-Eaton
Sydor-Goligoski

Richmond, Scuderi

Fleury
Sabou
Curry

You think two defensive extras and one forward extra? I'd be very surprised at that right now. If the entire defense was healthy, I could see it, as all 8 defenders are NHL-caliber. But what's the sense of having Richmond as a healthy scratch -- especially when Bissonnette can fill in as a defender if the team was in need.

Good point. Add in Pesonen then.

I bet they carry 8 defenders to sweden, regardless of Bissonnette. The top 3 lines are solid enough that they could easily play with only them. They should only carry one extra forward.

[Defence21]

I bet they carry 8 defenders to sweden, regardless of Bissonnette. The top 3 lines are solid enough that they could easily play with only them. They should only carry one extra forward.

I'm not as much worried about capability but about potential injuries.

You're playing with fire if you carry one extra for 12 forwards and 2 extras for 6 defensemen. If two forwards get hurt -- which isn't that unlikely of a scenario -- it's a long haul from Wilkes-Barre to Finland and Sweden to summon a call-up. Since the defense is half the size of the offense, to me, it makes more sense to carry half of the number of reserves that you would for offense.

[Idoit40fans]

Thats what I'm saying, they can get by losing a couple forwards to injury, they can't get by with 2 defenders getting injured.

[Defence21]

Thats what I'm saying, they can get by losing a couple forwards to injury, they can't get by with 2 defenders getting injured.

I'm playing the odds game here, and not worrying about anything else.

If you have 12 forwards and 6 defensemen dressed each game, it's more likely that 2 forwards would get hurt than 2 defensemen, since there are twice as many.

This is why I think it's important for a guy like Bissonnette to make the team, at least for the Europe trip, as he would serve as an offensemen, but could shift to defense if injury dictated such a move.

[PenguinSteve-o]

side note: Tyler Kennedy needs to find the back of the net this year. he was everywhere last year and if he can chip in more, or really anyone on 3rd and 4th line...this is still a super solid hockey team, and some might say it looks better on paper than last year.

[longtimefan]

Is Boogaard still up?

No. Part of today's cuts per the referenced article for this thread.

[CKA24]

What's the overarching impression of Bissonnette? I'm kinda impressed that he outlasted Stone, Beech, Filewich. Wasn't he a D-man at one point?

[Defence21]

What's the overarching impression of Bissonnette? I'm kinda impressed that he outlasted Stone, Beech, Filewich. Wasn't he a D-man at one point?

I love his toughness and willingness to fight. Plus, he's a middleweight capable of taking on guys who previously would have been handled by Malone. I think his odds of making the team are good.

[LdubsRoot23]

Cue the "Jeff Taint!" post...

TAINT!

[NJ5934]

The top 3 lines are solid enough that they could easily play with only them. They should only carry one extra forward.

Exactly why I think the 4th line should be as nasty as possible. I'm all for Biss being carried as the extra forward.