The 2024-2025 Pittsburgh Penguins Season Thread (Thread #100)

[Ed H in Pasadena]

A place for me to post my thoughts on our season. And anyone else who wants to can comment. Really.

Open the season with the Rags. I have zero expectations for this largely still aging group. Makes for a weird feeling, one I've not felt since Sid's first season. And even then, there was the hope that they'd gel in the years to follow. Which they did, to say the least.
In fact, probably more accurate to say the worst feeling for an upcoming season since 03-04, the season before the Malkin/Ovechkin draft.

 

[Ed H in Pasadena]

3-4 to start the season. Lose, win, lose, win, OT win followed by two blow out losses. Tristan Jarry has looked awful, the kid Joel Blomqvist has looked okay. Decent scoring at times but poor on defense.
In other words, it's gone exactly as I'd thought.

 

[Ed H in Pasadena]

Found an interesting article about Sid's problems this year: offensively, 5 on 5, he's been a liability.

We Need to Talk About Sidney Crosby