Is the Pens collective team IQ the lowest in the league, or what?

Schultz with a sick pinch. JJ plays it how he’s supposed to but let’s burn him for it

JS.....what the hell you doing?
- madmike71

That's because jj plays so bad...somehow.

If we'd missed the playoffs we might have had a shot at Jack Hughes or Kappo Kaaka

Better than this sh1t.....

even when we are playing good, small mistakes costing us.

Johnson gonna johnson
- Guile

For real?

So Crosby is a -2 already

Bring out the (frank)ing broom. Johnson-Schultz is an absolutely worthless pairing.
- Victoro311

No need to include JJ in that sequence. That was a stupid decision that’s all on Schultz

Bring out the (frank)ing broom. Johnson-Schultz is an absolutely worthless pairing.
- Victoro311

This is organizational mispractice at this level that should cost Sullivan his job. I know it won’t happen, but it should.

even when we are playing good, small mistakes costing us.
- Conse

Clean looks at Murray go in quite often.

Johnson gonna johnson
- Guile

Just stop,not this time, all on JS

They just never learn. It’s a 50-50 puck

That is inexcusable
- Thorny87

Correct and as a Defender you don’t pinch on 50-50 pucks. You pinch when you’re 100% sure you’re coming out on top

Schultz with a sick pinch. JJ plays it how he’s supposed to but let’s burn him for it
- WSCTeton17

I’d love to dump on JJ because he cut this team down from the knees, but that was all Schultz.

Schultz with a sick pinch. JJ plays it how he’s supposed to but let’s burn him for it
- WSCTeton17

It’s the whole (frank)ing pairing. It’s a mess. That one was definitely more on Schultz than on Johnson, but the communication hasn’t been there between the two from day 1.

Has to be stopped from that angle
- stayinthefnnet

Nope, a goalie can only take away about 95% of the net without allowing a spot somewhere else

Perfect shot allowed by the defense giving the shooter way too much space and time

This is organizational mispractice at this level that should cost Sullivan his job. I know it won’t happen, but it should.
- stayinthefnnet

+1.

But who replaces him?

Clean looks at Murray go in quite often.
- taleisyreXIII

Yeah he isn’t good.

It’s the whole (frank)ing pairing. It’s a mess. That one was definitely more on Schultz than on Johnson, but the communication hasn’t been there between the two from day 1.
- Victoro311

I don't like JJ, but that was all on JS.

+1.

But who replaces him?
- ab1

Is Barry Trotz available? He can’t beat us if he’s on our team

So it doesn’t bother anyone here that our 6’4 goalie plays the whole game from his knees and gets beat upstairs?

I don't like JJ, but that was all on JS.
- madmike71

Yup

Is the Pens collective team IQ the lowest in the league, or what?
- ab1

They never learn. It's ridiculous how often we keep seeing the same mistakes.

Has Malkin even played in this series?

Time to shake up the D pairs imo. We have one good pair. Give JJ to Letang and give Dumo to Schultz and tell him to stay in is damn lane. Either that or just shake up he entire thing like I said before. So many teams play such a tactful defensive game and ours is absolutely careless. I don’t think this is coaching either, these are bad individual efforts

Pens let up one goal and they abandon their game plan. This is a problem.

Overcommitting is suicide against the Isles.