mikey's Thread of Penguin Randomness

[mikey]

I didn't click the link...but I question why the Ducks would want to get slower...they're one of the five slowest teams in the NHL, and their backbone is being able to keep pucks out of their net and Gibson is in the MVP race at the moment...

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

There is no way that Maatta nets Manson...at least I wouldn't think...

Need to get even for the Despres trade...

[mikey]

Sprong on the Ducks make some sense...I posed the idea of Sprong and Montour as a base...but what we would have to add would be pretty substantial I'd think...

[dodint]

I feel like I'm ready to let Jack Johnson fly from the nest if that's what it takes.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

How noble of you.

[Gaucho]

There is no way that Maatta nets Manson...at least I wouldn't think...

Slow start for him, so it'd be another change of scenery thing.

[Gaucho]

fwiw, I don't see it happening either.

[mikey]

Manson is a defensive guy, tougher. Been the Ducks best d-man this year. Can't imagine he's looked at as the piece to get to us...I don't mean to belabor the point, but the Ducks are playing like leaky buttholes...tough to figure who the good players are right now...

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Brassard skating with the team in a regular jersey

[Gaucho]

Name rings a bell.

[nocera]

Brassard skating with the team in a regular jersey

Good. The center depth is a joke at the moment. Hopefully that means less Cullen.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Might mean less Sheahan seeing that Grant took his spot by the end of the game.

[crusherstasiak]

Name rings a bell.

8/10

[crusherstasiak]

fwiw, I don't see it happening either.

especially since fowler is having kevin stevens surgery

[nocera]

fwiw, I don't see it happening either.

especially since fowler is having kevin stevens surgery

Is this code for doing coke?

[dodint]

I typed the same exact thing and bailed on it.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Precursor. He brokeded his face, well a puck did.

[Dickie Dunn]

Penguins just showed some line combos. Pearson-Malkin-Hornqvist was one. Simon-Grant-Rust was another. From there, plenty of rotating. Among the ones I saw:

Guentzel-Sheahan-Kessel
Sheahan-Cullen-ZAR
Guentzel-Brassard-Wilson
Sheahan-Cullen-Sprong

Defense was rotating

Need to add Guentzel-Brassard-Kessel. ... My guess is that's probably a keeper if Brassard can go tomorrow.

Second power play looks different. It's Brassard, Sprong, Maatta, Oleksiak and Pearson (with Simon rotating). Top unit the same: Letang, Malkin, Hornqvist, Kessel and Guentzel.

Sullivan's continued inability to come up with line combinations that make any damn sense is annoying. Here Mike, I'll again do your job for you:

Pearson-Geno-Kessel
Guentzel-Brassard-Sprong
ZAR-Sheahan-Hornqvist
Simon-Grant-Rust

And once Sid comes back:

Guentzel-Sid-Hornqvist
Pearson-Geno-Kessel
ZAR-Brassard-Sprong
Simon-Sheahan-Rust

Now go try winning a game ya **** losers.

[Silentom]

fwiw, I don't see it happening either.

especially since fowler is having kevin stevens surgery

Is this code for doing coke?

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Penguins just showed some line combos. Pearson-Malkin-Hornqvist was one. Simon-Grant-Rust was another. From there, plenty of rotating. Among the ones I saw:

Guentzel-Sheahan-Kessel
Sheahan-Cullen-ZAR
Guentzel-Brassard-Wilson
Sheahan-Cullen-Sprong

Defense was rotating

Need to add Guentzel-Brassard-Kessel. ... My guess is that's probably a keeper if Brassard can go tomorrow.

Second power play looks different. It's Brassard, Sprong, Maatta, Oleksiak and Pearson (with Simon rotating). Top unit the same: Letang, Malkin, Hornqvist, Kessel and Guentzel.

Sullivan's continued inability to come up with line combinations that make any damn sense is annoying. Here Mike, I'll again do your job for you:

Pearson-Geno-Kessel
Guentzel-Brassard-Sprong
ZAR-Sheahan-Hornqvist
Simon-Grant-Rust

And once Sid comes back:

Guentzel-Sid-Hornqvist
Pearson-Geno-Kessel
ZAR-Brassard-Sprong
Simon-Sheahan-Rust

Now go try winning a game ya **** losers.

Pearson-Geno-Rust
Simon-Brassard-Hornqvist
Guentzel-Grant-Kessel
ZAR-Sheahan-Sprong


And once Sid comes back:

Guentzel-Sid-Kessel
Pearson-Geno-Rust
Simon-Brassard-Hornqvist
ZAR-Sheahan-Sprong

[dodint]

Surely you jest.

[crusherstasiak]

there's an aspect about the tenacity with which a portion of the media rag on sprong that strikes me as hyperbolic
perhaps they're correct? and if they are it seems to me it's a failure - not on the part of sprong - but on the GM who signed him and the scouting dept. i guess it happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

The real mess up was keeping him on the roster when he was 18. If they had sent him down after 8 he could be tearing up the AHL right now.

[mikey]

Yeah, he's in a tough spot...he's a talent though.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Wilson back down to WBS