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lemieuxReturns wrote:is jussi going to get another chance at cracking the lineup. He was money for us during the season.
The U wrote:lemieuxReturns wrote:is jussi going to get another chance at cracking the lineup. He was money for us during the season.
If Bylsma sours on Vitale (like he typically does after a few games) I'm sure we'll see the Juice.
Gaucho wrote:Joe Vitale @Joe46Vitale 1m
How's everyone day? Ready for some #Pens playoff hockey!! Put me in coach!
MRandall25 wrote:Gaucho wrote:Joe Vitale @Joe46Vitale 1m
How's everyone day? Ready for some #Pens playoff hockey!! Put me in coach!
Not the real Vitale (I'd be worried if he was tweeting right now)
lemieuxReturns wrote:is jussi going to get another chance at cracking the lineup. He was money for us during the season.
MarioLives wrote:How do the pens compare to the sens as far as being a physical team? Am I wrong to believe the Sens are a pretty physical team?
Fire0nice228 wrote:Sens arn't as fast, you might be on to something with Juice Hugo.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote:Fire0nice228 wrote:Sens arn't as fast, you might be on to something with Juice Hugo.
Yup. The Penguins don't need as much speed in the line-up, but at the same time this team has shown me that playing with a stacked four lines is not necessarily so grand. While on paper it looks great to have Jussi Jokinen as our fourth line center, but the fourth line needs play a very specific role.
That being said, I could see him dressing as the extra forward for specific situations.
columbia wrote:Hugo Stiglitz wrote:Fire0nice228 wrote:Sens arn't as fast, you might be on to something with Juice Hugo.
Yup. The Penguins don't need as much speed in the line-up, but at the same time this team has shown me that playing with a stacked four lines is not necessarily so grand. While on paper it looks great to have Jussi Jokinen as our fourth line center, but the fourth line needs play a very specific role.
That being said, I could see him dressing as the extra forward for specific situations.
The argument would be:
Morrow-Jussi-Cooke
??? - Sutter - ???
JJ can use his skills with that third line; it doesn't make sense to put him out there with any of the 4th liners.
DudeMan2766 wrote:Is ROOOOOOOT done for the year?
MRandall25 wrote:But who would you sit to play Jokinen? TK, who has owned the Sens throughout his career?
There has been some media chatter that the bad blood generated by the February incident in which Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke severed the Achilles tendon of Ottawa's Erik Karlsson could spill over in brawls and cheap shots, but I think each team realizes that the stakes are too high to get carried away. That said, Ottawa's physicality could wear down -- if not sideline -- Pittsburgh's key players, who all have a history of injury problems. Whatever physicality the Senators throw at them, the Pens will have to stand up to it without losing their discipline while handing out some punishment of their own
Hugo Stiglitz wrote:MarioLives wrote:How do the pens compare to the sens as far as being a physical team? Am I wrong to believe the Sens are a pretty physical team?
Our most physical players:
Letang, Cooke, Morrow, Murray and Kunitz
That's a nice amount of physical players to have. Dupuis, Neal and Iginla can all throw the body.
I'd have to say that the Senators are about equal, but I expect them to come out playing a more physical game than the Penguins to try and set the tone.
Truthfully, I'm expecting a bloody series. It's gonna get nasty.
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