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9 games in and my biggest question is…can we dress Witherspoon in an 81 jersey and send him the hell back to juniors and keep Kindel?
I really hope both stick this year. Most times salary cap concerns dictate teens staying or going back to juniors. With the cap going up substantially and the big 3 plus most likely EK being gone soon, I don’t see us having any issues there. Both(especially Kindel) have looked damn good so far, and other than the 2nd Rags game, we’ve been playing decent hockey so I think they benefit a lot more from staying and learning from the old guys before they’re gone.
I have to laugh… Sheary on the top line is soooooo Sully. He tortured us in Pittsburgh with Sheary in the top 6.
Sheary on the first line is definitely 100% Sully. At least they have an improved version of Sheary. Times I’ve seen him the past few seasons, he has at least stopped falling down for no apparent reason 3 times per game.
Enjoyable game from start to finish. Unlike the past few seasons, at no point was I waiting for the inevitable choke and loss. 81 More like that winning close to half and I think it would be a successful season.
Still not sold on the pick, but Kindel definitely has a high hockey IQ. If he puts in the work on his skating, we might have something there. 2nd line looked great, although they didn’t have to do much back checking.
And I almost feel bad for Rags fans…tonight they will experience their inaugural “I thought we played well, just have to get to our game” presser. Hopefully one of many lol.
LD on this team is brutal. I couldn’t stand Graves, but was he really worse than Wotherspoon or Jones? I think they sent Graves down just to get him out of the spotlight. Dubas doesn’t want the constant reminder that he gave that stiff big money. Anyway, this could have been a fringe playoff team if the D was better. I have a feeling our goalies will be shell shocked by mid-season.
Came to say the exact same thing. Jones has been glaringly putrid….exceeding even Graves suckage.
And I didn’t realize that kids on 9 game tryouts were allowed to play regular shifts and more than 4 sheltered minutes a game…F’ Sully.
Anyone else feel like they got coal in their stocking with that 1rst round? I know it wasn’t a deep draft year, but damn.
I was more excited for this draft than I have been in a long time. Even did a lot of research and had 2 reasonable names that I really, really wanted at 11 and 12…McQueen and Aitcheson. Would have been the perfect 2 guys to start the rebuild and change the team’s pussyified no toughness, no balls Sully identity. Sucks we missed McQueen by a pick, but still could have had something we haven’t had in forever…a mean SOB beast of a Dman. Hurts twice as much that he went to the Isles, as well as Eklund who I’d rather have had than any of our picks. Instead from most reports, we reached 3 times and came away with a pair of 3rd line centers and a 3rd line wing.
I obviously don’t know the details of whats going on at HB but Ek seems totally fine with letting it all go down the drain. Banning me for that, on top of just knowing my DM’s weren’t going through to anyone, made me feel like I didn’t live in a free country hahaha
Oh well, F him and that site…if we can get most of the band back together around here it doesn’t matter at all if that place totally flushes down…
Has RW been asked to blog here, I wonder….
From info on a couple of discord sites during the month long shut down, EK can’t/won’t pay the bloggers there. When they complain and leave, he erases their blogs and you get guest writers who are probably just EK himself. Assuming that’s what happened with Ryan.
Bill posted on the first page of this that they’re working on a Pens blogger…which is disappointing since the Bloggers link lists our old guy Brian as our blogger. Would love to have Brian back, his blogs were worth reading and enjoyable.
