blackjack68 wrote:We had our Hossa year and lost. This year, we had Iginla and lost.
I think we regroup and come back stronger next year, just like after the Hossa year.
pressure=9Pa wrote:Gaucho wrote:I'm already sick of hearing about the broken leg. Nothing heroic about it.
Same feeling about Malone in '07 when his nose exploded?
Henry Hank wrote:Clutch and grab snuck back into the playoffs pretty quickly. It was there plenty in both series in the finals against Detroit. There's no complaining about it. What the Pens need to do is take advantage of it themselves. Boston did, another reason they're moving on and the Pens aren't.
Pens were already talking about the officiating after game one. Never a good sign when a team resorts to that.
I don't think the season really ended up that abruptly. They made it to the third round. Last year was abrupt. They were supposedly Cup favorites and a handful of days into the playoffs they're already down 3-0. Boston is really good. There's no shame in losing to them no matter what people were saying about the Pens being favorites. Getting swept is a bit much but they lost two one goal games to end the series. Those could have easily gone the other way and it's a 2-2 series. But the margin of error is slim when you're facing a team good enough to match what you can do. Again, Boston is a really good team.
GSdrums87 wrote:Dropped this in the GDT for those that don't think Geno got the shot off there at the end. And yes that's Chara.
http://i.imgur.com/hXEmvx7.gif
shmenguin wrote:How on earth could last night have ended differently?
We had one good rush and it was with the goalie pulled. At no point did it look like we were going to win that game.
Henry Hank wrote:blackjack68 wrote:We had our Hossa year and lost. This year, we had Iginla and lost.
I think we regroup and come back stronger next year, just like after the Hossa year.
I think so too. Colorado didn't win the Cup the year they got Bourque, it took another year. Honestly, it was never a great feeling to me this year when the Pens were winning 15 straight and being called favorites before the regular season was over. Just had that too good to be true feeling.
the riddler wrote:This was one of the toughest games to watch all year. It seemed that Boston was making it impossible to score and Pittsburgh wasn't trying anything different to get past them. Boston just gradually broke their will throughout the series. The Penguins played pretty well defensively all series but had absolutely no scoring punch, they let Boston dictate this entire series and Boston looked like more of a team than Pittsburgh. The moves to get Iginla and Morrow look like mistakes right now. Morrow is just too slow at this point of his career. Iginla wasn't used correctly his entire time in Pittsburgh. Why didn't they try using him with Crosby more? Putting a line of Cooke - Malkin - Neal out there, which didn't work all season long, was also a strange move. The line changes in the first period really prohibited the Penguins from getting into any offensively flow. They didn't have the 4 line depth that Boston had in this series. In hindsight, maybe the Penguins should have gotten some better suited players for the 3rd and 4th lines instead of the big name guys. I know Boston is a good defensive team but it's a shame Pittsburgh wasn't able to change their game in reaction to what Boston was doing. Getting to their game was not working.
Henry Hank wrote:shmenguin wrote:How on earth could last night have ended differently?
We had one good rush and it was with the goalie pulled. At no point did it look like we were going to win that game.
It's not like Boston had many scoring chances the last two games either.
joker10277 wrote:As far as the team goes, they are babies, they can't stand adversity, crosby, malkin, orpik, letang = no leadership! The pens have created an atmosphere that pampers the players too much and these are the results you get.
One year of this stuff is a fluke, when it happens in some variation every year you have serious issues.
pcm wrote:To the people saying that this series was closer than a sweep suggests, it's true that the Penguins and Bruins are pretty comparable teams. They're both darn good, talented, deep teams. But the difference is that the Bruins know they can win a championship, and the Penguins are losers. Thats why Boston could play patiently and let the bounces go there way. They scored just as much as they needed to. Last night, they got their 1 goal and played to win.
Avyran wrote:You know... Boston was also shut out during the powerplay.
It wasn't as one-sided as people, or the 4-0, want to say (well, except for period 1 of game 1, and all of game 2).
Henry Hank wrote:shmenguin wrote:How on earth could last night have ended differently?
We had one good rush and it was with the goalie pulled. At no point did it look like we were going to win that game.
It's not like Boston had many scoring chances the last two games either. McQuaid's shot hit a stick and found the perfect spot. Someone just posted a gif of Malkin being robbed by Chara desperation with about a minute left.
The way people are talking the Pens got blown out of the series. Game three, Adams hit a post moments before Boston won it. There wasn't much differentiating these games.
shmenguin wrote:How on earth could last night have ended differently?
We had one good rush and it was with the goalie pulled. At no point did it look like we were going to win that game.
shmenguin wrote:Yes, they aimlessly threw dozens of shots at the net. Bylsma probably mentioned this at the pizza party after the game before handing out the participation trophies.