The (multifaceted) loss of Rickard Rakell’s been a real killer
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Call up ALL the MINOR league players NOW and send ALL these pretenders to Scranton. What a JOKE this team has become. Firings and send downs are a MUST. Nothing will change with these clowns.
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I predicted this during baseball season….that by fall, DK could change the name of his show go "DK's daily shot of Pittsburgh Sports Suck". Looks like we're here.The cherry on top is that 315 is a Pitt player!!
Great day to honor MAF!
Can we talk about how awesome John Ludvig is? I love how he's just out there throwing hands every time he can.
A fire that we need on this team especially since Zucker is not here anymore.
I dont think its a coincidence that the min Rakell was out of the line up geno and Smith starting not producing as much. Just because he isn't scoring right now doesn't mean he wasn't making an impact on the ice
I think we all need to be patient with Graves. Remember how bad Paul Martin was his whole first year after coming here? Then year 2 and beyond he took a huge jump. Wondering if this is the same thing. I doubt he just suddenly forgot how to play hockey after being really good in New Jersey. I’m sure switching systems is hard after years with another team.
I think what happened the other night was this…sometimes you have a game where you can do no wrong, other times you can have a game where you can do know right. Toronto had a very good game and the Pens had a very bad game. Put it behind you and continue on.
Few Things about Some of the players
Rakell Was a big reason Malkin and smith. we're Clicking no goals for him, but he did Help with that line.
Graves is a Good Player it is just taking him longer to get used to the penguin's system. And that happens with players don't give up to soon on him he's young still learning The System
Elias Lindholm. Or Anthony Duclair
Can Sullivan please pull the reigns back on the defenseman jumping into the play? Only Letang & Karlsson should be jumping in. This team has enough skill at forward & doesn't need our 5th & 6th d-man jumping in
It was hard to watch Rakell struggle this year no matter what he did. I hope so badly that he can figure out how to score again because he and especially his team could use it. To your point on Graves, he has absolutely got to be better. Defensemen seem to struggle more initially on new teams. Gonchar was one who did but also Paul Martin didn't look like a fit in his first year. After that, he was one of their better overall defensemen for several years. Hopefully Graves can become that at some point,
Graves and Eric together will be a disaster… Please NOOOO
Can we just stop dancing around it? Sullivan sucks. That wasn't always the case. But without a still in their prime Crosby & Malkin to prop him up, he has no idea how to put his players in a position to succeed. It's Bylsma all over again.