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DK’s Daily Shot of Penguins: Oh, it’s just Game 1



Oh, relax … sure, it felt awful, but it’s also just Game 1 with fixable issues.

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25 Comments

  4. Byron Nelson

    The guys in front of Jarry lost this game. Pettersson and O'connor caused those goals. The lack of playing defense will be the same problem as last year.

  6. Aaron Breeze

    Pens might have won if Pittsburgh would just fire Canada already. Yes. I know what I said. Canada’s employment is bad for the whole city.

    Also, gotta help Jarry.

  8. John Bowman

    Yes this is nice, but you can’t give away 2 points. It makes a difference- look at last year. Somebody step up and say no not going to happen.

  10. SealTeamRick

    The while effort felt discombobulated….that will mend. Im more concerned about our legs at the end of the game. Were the oldest team in the league even after the changes. Which reminds me, Carter has to go. His effort was woeful. You can skate as fast as anybody. Skating with purpose at THAT speed means more to me than anything. This team is gonna be severely chemistry based. That bodes well for alot of the season, but it doesnt bode well for when the chips are down and you need the miraculous on weak legs. Dig deep. Find a part of yourself you didnt know you had in ya. I hope im wrong cause im afraid im right.

  11. Ken Bourekas

    Last year all we needed was one more win so when it comes to the regular season, it doesn’t matter if it’s the first game or the last game they are all extremely important the fact that we played with absolutely no structure Evgenii Malkin decided to stay home constantly being lazy with the puck. Seems like these coaches need to be fired. You’ve had long enough to get this team ready for game one and you put a guy on the ice that you just picked up was there not any other players that we have? That would’ve been ready or was it the case that Chicago had a superstar player and he had to have his first win for the television cameras on ESPN kissing his ass

  14. Rowan Denk

    DK im real nervous about EK65. i know its game one, but i think he really needs to tighten up his D. i know hes never been a stellar defensive defensman, but we cant have him selling on the D end and not producing points. im sure the points will come, but what im worried about is if they dont, cause watching him yesterday was tough

  16. Joe Jack

    Same Penguins. Different year. We're missing the playoffs. We're too old. The era is over. I'm depressed.

  17. Stephan Podlecki

    This season's raw for Pittsburgh and EK65 and Riley Smith and everyone else but the hawks are ushering a new kid (who is labeled the next Sid/Mcdavid Don't get me wrong). Besides Bedard who wasn't impressive… we lost to Rockford 2.0 ft Taylor Hall… Feels bad right now….

  18. Damin Gomes

    First and 3rd line seemed ok. 2nd line should figure it out but carter on that 4th line just doesnt do it for me. I know many people believe he is a better hockey player than the league min guys but he is just too slow and appears to not want to use his big frame defensively or physically. I know its game one but even in the pre season he looked slow and unengaged to me at certain times. Give me big Z or white out there and i think you have something closer to the buzzsaw line. We need a 4th line who can handle tough assigments and closings out games.
    Oh well, on to the next one.

  19. chase schneier

    Why didn’t they know what to do in the Hawks end?!
    Lack of preparation. Who’s responsible for that? Not sanguine on Sully fixing things.

  21. Scott Pykare

    Even though the top line had both goals lines 3 & 4 were very good I felt. The power play………oh my🫣. Just my observations DK.

  22. med2659

    Have we beaten Chicago once in like the last 15 years?…honestly…we couldn't beat Chicago if they had a bunch of nuns on their team…we would still find a way to lose…didn't they have like 3 teenagers on their D last night?!… pathetic

  23. ZC717

    I am trying to just move past it and remember it is game 1, but when this happened last night it's like here we go again, because it happened all too often last year. I am trying to remember a lof of the guys on this team are still getting used to playing together: If you think about it, the only full line that played together last year, was Crosby's line with Guentzel and Rust every other line has at least one person ,that is new to playing together:

    – Reilly Smith on Malkin's line with Rakell
    – The whole third line is new with DOC, Eller, and Harkins
    – The whole fourth line is new to playing together as well with Acciari, Nieto, and Carter

    Even the defensive pairs
    – Graves is new to playing with Letang
    – Karlsson is new to playing with Pettersson

    It sucks it happened in game 1, but move past it and just get ready for the next game I do think as these guys play together more things will improve. You hate to see what happened too often last year, happen in the first game of the season, but it's a marathon not a sprint.

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