Fifth Avenue Forum

If we still get the same uneven lineup with kessel disappearing and brassard showing oil & water chemistry with his line, while the caps keep having the same success...well this doesn’t really make me pin anything on Sullivan, but it does make him part of the issue during the season debrief.

If you can’t fix Letang, Kessel and Murray, you gotta try to make up for it somewhere else, no?

If we still get the same uneven lineup with kessel disappearing and brassard showing oil & water chemistry with his line, while the caps keep having the same success...well this doesn’t really make me pin anything on Sullivan, but it does make him part of the issue during the season debrief.

If you can’t fix Letang, Kessel and Murray, you gotta try to make up for it somewhere else, no?

The Pens have outplayed the Caps in this series imo outside of the big caveat of Murray/holtby. I'm not saying that means you necessarily stand pat, but you can't sit Murray so if Sullivan rolls with mostly the same lineup I don't know that I would fault him much. Where are you going to put Letang at this point?

If we still get the same uneven lineup with kessel disappearing and brassard showing oil & water chemistry with his line, while the caps keep having the same success...well this doesn’t really make me pin anything on Sullivan, but it does make him part of the issue during the season debrief.

If you can’t fix Letang, Kessel and Murray, you gotta try to make up for it somewhere else, no?

The Pens have outplayed the Caps in this series imo outside of the big caveat of Murray/holtby. I'm not saying that means you necessarily stand pat, but you can't sit Murray so if Sullivan rolls with mostly the same lineup I don't know that I would fault him much. Where are you going to put Letang at this point?

Thank God Gravy's Instant...?

Oh no irrational grudge relating to something that definitely for sure happened two weeks ago shmengy has been activated we are truly on the brink

Thank God Gravy's Instant...?

If we still get the same uneven lineup with kessel disappearing and brassard showing oil & water chemistry with his line, while the caps keep having the same success...well this doesn’t really make me pin anything on Sullivan, but it does make him part of the issue during the season debrief.

If you can’t fix Letang, Kessel and Murray, you gotta try to make up for it somewhere else, no?

The Pens have outplayed the Caps in this series imo outside of the big caveat of Murray/holtby. I'm not saying that means you necessarily stand pat, but you can't sit Murray so if Sullivan rolls with mostly the same lineup I don't know that I would fault him much. Where are you going to put Letang at this point?

I agree. We’ve been the better team. But we’re taking these flimsy leads into the 3rd and we’re either blowing it or almost blowing it 3 games in a row. So...can’t fix Murray. Can’t fix Letang. So basically, we can’t fix our defense. What do you do then? Get weird with the forwards, I guess.

Or you just say F it and hope Murray can fix his glove overnight.

One option is more interesting but I admit both are probably equally effective.

Oh no irrational grudge relating to something that definitely for sure happened two weeks ago shmengy has been activated we are truly on the brink

I think it means good things. We’ve never lost a playoff series in which I complained about Malkin pissing away his season.

Yea that's fine, but he's still going to be on the ice for ~20mins a game. You can't hide him as your #6.

Thank God Gravy's Instant...?

Oh no. You're a jar gravy guy. Yikes.

If we still get the same uneven lineup with kessel disappearing and brassard showing oil & water chemistry with his line, while the caps keep having the same success...well this doesn’t really make me pin anything on Sullivan, but it does make him part of the issue during the season debrief.

If you can’t fix Letang, Kessel and Murray, you gotta try to make up for it somewhere else, no?

The Pens have outplayed the Caps in this series imo outside of the big caveat of Murray/holtby. I'm not saying that means you necessarily stand pat, but you can't sit Murray so if Sullivan rolls with mostly the same lineup I don't know that I would fault him much. Where are you going to put Letang at this point?

I agree. We’ve been the better team. But we’re taking these flimsy leads into the 3rd and we’re either blowing it or almost blowing it 3 games in a row. So...can’t fix Murray. Can’t fix Letang. So basically, we can’t fix our defense. What do you do then? Get weird with the forwards, I guess.

Or you just say F it and hope Murray can fix his glove overnight.

One option is more interesting but I admit both are probably equally effective.

Sell me the weird lines you want sully to throw out there tonite shmengy

I also don't know what "flimsy" leads means. The caps are a good team. You're up going into the third and you concede we've been the better team. I don't know what Sullivan can do to get them to not have these hilariously aberrant results in the third. What is it, 9-0 in the third right now? I'm all ears on how you fix that other than see if they can figure out how to not meltdown in the last 20z

Yea that's fine, but he's still going to be on the ice for ~20mins a game. You can't hide him as your #6.

Look, he's gotta play and he's gotta play a lot...he's a rhythm player...he's got a lot of talent...this is where we're at, it's just a not a negotiable scenario...and I say that with resignment, not with anger towards you...

Sullivan doesn't really seem like a desperation play kind of guy...