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The problem is roster construction not the coaching. This is a horribly constructed team. A total of 6 nhl forward players to fill out a 12 man roster. Rust and even rakell might even be 3rd line players on most good teams. Which mean the pens have 4 REAL nhl fowards on the roster. No depth and 87 can’t carry the team forever at his age,
Whole Todd has other duties, why can't they just hire one person whose specific job will be the power play?
Sometimes I think their goal of the PP is to just take 2 minutes off the clock, that it's a carrot to be on the unit. Do you even expect them to score on 5 on 3's anymore? I don't.
Hey, I was making my morning coffee and heard your opening two questions: got them right, too. That was fun. Do I get a booby prize?
Hockey is a business and winning is the priority. If we have these great players and coaches and we continue to struggle, then not changing anything won't change anything. Struggles will continue and this team will remain around or worse than a playoff bubble team. That said i believe sully has the ability and the team has the talent to get into the playoffs and possible win a round or two. But he and the coaching staff need to find the formula and i think to this point (not including the blender from last game, 1 game sample) they have been too patient and too stuborn. Screw egos and expectations. Let players earn where they are based on current play. Maybe that lights the right fire and motivates every one on the team.
DK, it's their attitude/consistency toward the PP. They expect to score as we we've talked about WITHOUT putting in the work. Nothing is automatic. All players must buy in to the system 💯%. For whatever the reason it doesn't happen on every opportunity??
That feeling you get that none of this will matter is because in addition to "we've seen this movie before", we also know all to well that the change of personnel in the last game, conveniently right before the All-Star break, was just another shot over the bough, desperate message by Sullivan that is supposed to get everyone's attention while pacifying the fans, but only temporarily. We know after this break – and players like Makin and Karlsson have been figuratively sent to their rooms to think about things – they'll be right back out there on the No. 1 PP unit as soon as the season resumes.
BTW: That's one other reason a coaching change could be beneficial, and has nothing to do with Sullivan being a bad coach, or even the player's "tuning him out". A different approach might be needed. Maybe one that starts with not catering to the core at all costs and one that maybe has the lines and especially the makeup of the PP units altered for good. We maybe need a coach who'll actually stop and turn the car around instead of always threatening it.
And if it doesn't work, so what. What's happening now clearly hasn't worked for several seasons now and is not even improving. It makes no sense whatsoever to stick with it out of fear, unless they're lying to us and themselves in pandering to an actual Stanley Cup push when they know it's not in the cards. Hey, If I want lied to, we have the Steelers and Pirates selling snake oil on the other side of the river.
Is it right for these coaches to just let the players egos be so important? Its kinda sickening.
Either way – if the team is torn down or if the team stays intact after the trade deadline, this team really needed this time for a reset and a deep analysis of what is happening! I really hope they can keep Guentzel!
To many players doing nothing , coaches can’t fix the issues and gm is way to patient
Did the players tune out Bylsma? Why was he fired? What was the feeling then about this situation then? I thought it was about performance, and not that the players stopped listening to him, or that he was a bad coach? Did they just want change? I'm going with the latter. Here's what SI had to say about it: "Team ownership in Pittsburgh had every right to make changes this spring after yet another playoff disappointment. Eight consecutive years in the postseason for Shero? Swell. Six for Bylsma. Awesome. And when was their last Stanley Cup exactly? That's a harsh standard, but it's the downside to working in a town where winning isn't a goal, it's an expectation. When things don't go well, someone's liable to lose their job."
Remember when this was the standard with this team and you could get fired if you didn't go far enough to meet it? What's that say about this coach, this team and their priorities, that they stubbornly stick with a coach who can't even get them to the playoffs anymore, let alone get out of the first round, or heaven forbid go far enough to get bounced in the 2nd round? Look over on the South Side at the other professional sports team there. They've seemed to adopt the same less than stern, lackadaisical approach to business and "the standard". I would include the Pirates too, but they don't count as professional, let alone have a standard that's not borderline pathetic.
My thoughts? They know (ownership and management) that they aren't that team anymore – just like most of us do but don't want to admit it – and are just conning themselves and others to say they tried and did everything they could as to not alienate a ticket buying fan base, or Crosby who needs to be placated enough to think he's not busting his tail for nothing and it's a dead cause. Harsh? Yup. But it's the truth. Because if they really thought like they did in 2014, had those high standards, and weren't going to accept failure as an answer, drastic measures would have been taken by now and Sullivan would have been fired years ago – and easily before this season – especially with a new GM, like Bylsma promptly was canned when Rutherford came in.
All you need to do is take Malkan off the first power play and put Ek65 there .
I remember a long (12 years or so) ago PP drought…When asked what was needed to fix it, Geno replied, "More goals."
Malkin tries too hard to make something happen on the power play. He just needs to either shoot or move the puck. Sullivan waited til the 8th power play of the game to move him off.