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joopen wrote:Fire0nice228 wrote:I think its funny that everyone assumes the Pens will buy out Paul Martin (or anyone really)... The Pens are a 'break even' team who have openly said they have to get to atleast the second round to turn a meaningful profit. These are real dollars coming out of Mario and Burkles pocket and I don't believe that there is a whole ton of extra flying around like the Rangers or others have..
If the cap was set to the original $60M that was being floated, he would have almost had to have been bought out. At $64.3M, the Pens have $11M to fill a roster next year with roughly 8 players instead of only having $7M. I think he stays.
MRandall25 wrote:Do people who think Gonchar is better defensively than Martin even watch the 2009-2010 season?
pcm wrote:Martin admits he had a horrible year.
ExPatriatePen wrote:1984-1985 #7 Rod Buskas
Seriously, until Ryan Whitney... No Penguin was blamed more than Rod for Penguins losses.
Lt. Dish wrote:ExPatriatePen wrote:1984-1985 #7 Rod Buskas
Seriously, until Ryan Whitney... No Penguin was blamed more than Rod for Penguins losses.
I think it's Rod Buskas' birthday, according to Empty Netters.
And yes, Rod Buskas was a regular in the fans' stockade.
Dan H wrote:Was that a 4-on-1? Gonch didn't do much, but I'm pretty sure almost any of us on the board would have looked silly more than half the time going 1-on-4 against NHL players. Sometimes mostly by luck the defender looks good there, but the odds are against you in that situation. There are just too many passing lanes to take away all of them. What do you do? Pressure the puck carrier? He passes it across the ice to set up the shot on an open net. Collapse to the low crease? Same result. Pick a man on the far side to cover? The puck carrier skates right in on the goalie, or draws him to one side and flips the puck across to one of the two uncovered guys for a tap-in. In similar situations (at a much lower level of hockey, of course) I sometimes lay out and try to take away the cross-ice pass along the ice with my stick while trying to make the puck carrier skate around my body to reach the net, but more often than not good players will still make me look silly. Sure, maybe that would have been better than what Gonch did, because sometimes the puck carrier will misfire a saucer pass or shoot the puck right at the goalie. But none of your options are good in that situation.
Gonch has fallen off defensively over the past few years and probably has lots of tape in which he misplays easier situations. But maybe you were doing a tongue-in-cheek thing when you called it an easy odd man break?
MRandall25 wrote:Do people who think Gonchar is better defensively than Martin even watch the 2009-2010 season?
mikey287 wrote:Lt. Dish wrote:ExPatriatePen wrote:1984-1985 #7 Rod Buskas
Seriously, until Ryan Whitney... No Penguin was blamed more than Rod for Penguins losses.
I think it's Rod Buskas' birthday, according to Empty Netters.
And yes, Rod Buskas was a regular in the fans' stockade.
Can either of you shed a little more light on this please? If memory allows, what was it that made fans dislike him? Same thing as Stackhouse? Hatcher? Whitney? I wouldn't necessarily guess so because Buskas wasn't an offensive defenseman, but when there's a pattern like that, you take a shot...
mikey287 wrote:Thank you, kindly.
mikey287 wrote:Yeah, Dan, I'm sorry to say your analysis of the situation was in vain. The proper thing to do there is skate back as fast as you can and knock the net off...5 on 4 is way better than 4 on 1![]()
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Mrandall and I were just razzing...
If you want to make serious AND relevant analysis, just before that in the same video, Gonchar comes off the bench on the PK and doesn't pick up the weakside guy streaking up the middle which leads to a breakaway...you see Gonchar's eyes affixed to the puck as if it were offering free vodka for life by winning the staring contest...
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