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

Ed H in Pasadena

Ed H in Pasadena

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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.
 
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.
 
Hard to come in here and chat up the Pens when they are so bad. If there were others to commiserate with over their demise, yes, but there isn't.
In any case, back-to-back games are coming up with vs Winnipeg (sure loss) and Utah Hockey Club (what a stupid name). Maybe someone, somewhere will step up, grab this team by the scruff of the neck and carry them forward ... but not likely. Yet somehow, Sid remains optimistic. Not sure what it's based on though, TBH

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If it was up to me, though, I'd blow it all up right now, as quickly as possible. Everyone on the trade block, Sid included. He deserves better than this absolute **ithole of a team. Get what pieces we can, draft wisely and see what emerges in, oh, 4-5 years. 😭
 
Winnipeg 4, Pittsburgh 1
Utah Hockey Club 6, Pittsburgh 1

Team has quit on Mike Sullivan. Sh**canning him won't do anything, but it's all but inevitable now.

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Penguins Stink Again in Embarrassing Loss to Utah

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins (7-12-4) quit long before the game was over. The Utah Hockey Club (8-9-3) did not, and it was yet another embarrassing, lifeless loss on home ice as Utah won 6-1 at PPG Paints Arens Saturday. On the plus side, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby added his name to...
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So hard to post about this season. After the last post on the 24th, they won four in a row, then have been 2-3 since. Good to see the trade acquisitions Philip Tomasino and Cody Glass playing pretty well, and the rookie Owen Pickering is a bright spot. But this team still has defensive problems (most goals allowed in the entire league), goaltending problems, and now Marcus Pettersson, arguably our best defender, is out for a while with a "lower body injury" (stupid NHL injury designations).
Currently 6th in the Met and 11th in the conference. 🤦‍♂️ :cry:
 
Been six weeks since my last post. Had a few things going on (holidays, end of one term and start of another, illness, Ohio State's run to the national title and ... the fires!), but mostly, there's no real reason to post this year. No one commenting, and the Pens playing about as poorly as expected. Hard to see Sid, Geno and Kris going down with this shipwreck. But the team missed opportunities to trade these assets to build for the future, so I'm stuck with this team. Headed to their third straight playoff-less season with little hope on the immediate horizon.
Sid passes milestones, is still the best player on the team, and it's nice to see Rickard Rakell playing decent hockey. And at least they cut ties with Tristan Jarry, though just over a year after stupidly extending him. On the other hand, everyone seems to have forgotten how to defend, forwards and defenders alike. Goaltending is still a problem. And no one apart from the first line seems to know how to score. Geno and Kris look awful, and Owen promptly hit a development wall and got sent down.
 
Well, the big deal I was expecting to go down finally went down: defenseman Marcus Pettersson (with Drew O' Connor) were traded to the Vancouver Canucks for Danton Heinen (welcome back), Vincent Desharnais, Melvin Fernstrom's rights and the #1 pick the 'Nucks acquired earlier Friday in the J.T. Miller deal.


Penguins Trade Marcus Pettersson to Vancouver
 
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On November 22nd, I said
Ed H in Pasadena said:
If it was up to me, though, I'd blow it all up right now, as quickly as possible. Everyone on the trade block, Sid included. He deserves better than this absolute **ithole of a team. Get what pieces we can, draft wisely and see what emerges in, oh, 4-5 years. 😭
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We now have four first round picks in the next three years, 15 picks in the first three rounds in that same time period, and 29 overall in that time! Dubas better freaking well hit several homers with all this draft capital.
 
Since the Pettersson deal, the Pens have traded Vincent Desharnais, Michael Bunting with a 4th round pick, and Anthony Beauvillier. In return, they've received a 2nd, a 5th (in 2028), and two players: Luke Schenn and Tommy Novak.
Still to be determined: flipping Schenn for a pick, trading Richard Rakell, and (unlikely) Erik Karlsson. I see them as likely, possible and impossible.
 
Looks like the Pens were done with the Glass deal. Rakell still in Pitt, as is Karlsson.

Missing a chance to talk about the big deals today: Rantanen, Cozens and now Brad Marchand. WOW! :oops:
 
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