Official Game Day Thread: Penguins vs Devils 2/10/13

[joe icepick]

I think Engeland is sucking up the place this year

[DudeMan2766]

Hey all! The Pens lost a game. Be sure not to discuss it lest you be labeled a bridge jumper, a negative negativer, and the like. Also, seeding doesn't matter, last year proved that.

[The U]

Hope we don't see them in the playoffs. Bad matchup and boring.

[Gaucho]

****! ****! ****!

[FreeCandy44]

HCDB drawing up the old 2 goals in 8.9 second play.

LOL

[Kaizer]

L.

[Gaucho]

Hey all! The Pens lost a game. Be sure not to discuss it lest you be labeled a bridge jumper, a negative negativer, and the like. Also, seeding doesn't matter, last year proved that.

yawn...

[joe icepick]

Never got to there game

[pcm]

Boychuk looks good so far. But Malkin and Neal look pretty terrible with him at ES... But still look great on the power play. Time to shift up the lines again?

[FreeCandy44]

Every year a team seems to have our number. Maybe this year its Jersey.

[farnham16]

When the Pens stars don't get it done, they don't win. Plain and simple.

[KG]

HCDB drawing up the old 2 goals in 8.9 second play.

[DudeMan2766]

Hey all! The Pens lost a game. Be sure not to discuss it lest you be labeled a bridge jumper, a negative negativer, and the like. Also, seeding doesn't matter, last year proved that.

yawn...

?? Admittedly tho I messed up my own edit looking like an a-hole

[SoupOrSam]

I think if there is any disappointment in Sutter is he does not make linemates better. Staal made Kennedy look pretty good a lot of times. Same with Cooke. I think we all knew that when we picked him up. At least the 3rd line "duties" of his game is not a drop-off. Cheaper too. That's how I look at the entire thing.

[Gaucho]

Need a winger and a center for Boychuk.

[PensFanInDC]

4-2 in 6 games in 9 days. Ill take it.

[nocera]

Need a winger and a center for Boychuk.

#waiverwire

[71Aj66ax87]

Next game against the Sens will be better.

[MRandall25]

They don't play again for 3 days. Would be a nice rest.

[nocera]

4-2 in 6 games in 9 days. Ill take it.

You stop that.

[columbia]

I think if there is any disappointment in Sutter is he does not make linemates better. Staal made Kennedy look pretty good a lot of times. Same with Cooke. I think we all knew that when we picked him up. At least the 3rd line "duties" of his game is not a drop-off. Cheaper too. That's how I look at the entire thing.

Why would you have assumed that Sutter was/is a comparable player or be able to have that effect?

[PensFanInDC]

4-2 in 6 games in 9 days. Ill take it.

You stop that.

Fire Malkin

[NJ5934]

Hope we don't see them in the playoffs. Bad matchup and boring.

Actually I think the Devils are pretty effective at the same style the Pens played when HCMT was canned and DB took control. They are probably the hardest working team in the league too. I guess you can call it boring but they won damn near every battle for loose pucks all night.

[mikey287]

To be fair, the Penguins were "trapping" as much or more than the Devils in the first two periods I thought. We sit back and play a 1-2-2 when we dump it and feels there's a less than 50-50 chance we can win possession. The Devils collapse back deeper to their net than we do, but that's not trapping.

Collapsing back towards the net is a strategy that has been effective against the pens for many years now.

It's effective against more than just us. It's a seminar in Modern Defending 101. Very few teams don't have a strong collapse back to their net, in fact, we didn't even early in this season. We're learning now and do a better job. It comes standard now, like leather in a luxury car, it's a given.

[SoupOrSam]

I think if there is any disappointment in Sutter is he does not make linemates better. Staal made Kennedy look pretty good a lot of times. Same with Cooke. I think we all knew that when we picked him up. At least the 3rd line "duties" of his game is not a drop-off. Cheaper too. That's how I look at the entire thing.

Why would you have assumed that Sutter was/is a comparable player or be able to have that effect?

Never assumed Sutter = Staal. Not for a moment. However, I knew Sutter coming in was going to be probably the best 3rd line center we could have possibly hoped for. Fantastic trade by Shero.

Edit:
Probably have to read up and see who it was that said they were disappointed in Sutter. I'm quite happy and content with him.