Je revends comme activité secondaire. Je suis tombé sur une actualité sur le hockey d’octobre 2008 et un article écrit par Ken Campbell. Citation préférée : » ne vous attendez pas à ce que votre équipe soit aussi bonne que la saison dernière. L’histoire récente et à long terme montrera que les Penguins ont autant de chances de remporter la Coupe Stanley en 2009 que la plupart des gens ordinaires. se faire frapper par la foudre alors qu’il était sur le point d’encaisser son billet de loterie gagnant. »
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They were getting trounced so hard the first half of the season that they fired Therrien halfway through after taking them to the Finals the previous season. Pretty sure they were out of playoff contention by January that season.
I mean. They fired the coach and brought in key guys in trades during the season…
Team was « soff »
Keep in mind, Penguins added Kunitz and Guerin at the deadline, who ended up being Crosby’s linemates for the playoffs. Both players had Stanley Cups, and Guerin added that veteran presence that the Penguins needed.
The part about losing Hossa and Malone for Satan and Fedotenko doesn’t seem like that bad of a report. Especially since Satan was brought in to be top six and was on the fourth line for the playoffs.
Noone would have guessed Talbot would have been on Malkin’s line with Fedotenko and been one of the most important playoff performers.
Edit: I feel the only thing that was a miss was the loss of Ruutu but the addition of Cooke. Cooke was an idiot when it came to head hits but he was that replacement for Ruutu.
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy ended up being one of our best third lines.
Though I’d rather have Ruutu over Cooke with that said.
Edit2: Only take I think is stupid is the trade Malkin take. Yes his contract extension was going to kick in the next season, but you take advantage of having a top tier player on a ELC (which the Penguins did)
Can you imagine being this retarded for people to read an article in a magazine?
Was Mark Madden in Campbell’s ear when he wrote this?
I saw bad take, then Ken Campbell, so it checks out
Wow, this brings back memories. Also reminds me of Barry Melrose’s stupid ass saying the pens were finished in the 09 series against the wings.
I honestly don’t see a lot wrong with what’s being said. I don’t think trading Geno would have been the right move but it would have been a less boom-or-bust option.
* They’re right about Hossa. People took that personally but dude was a rental. He said going to Detroit gave him the best chance at a cup and he was as close to right as you can be while being wrong.
* They’re right about the centers thing, though it wasn’t immediate Staal did eventually ask for a trade so he wouldn’t be stuck on a 3rd line.
* They were bad for a most of the season until they changed coaches and pulled in some key guys at the trade deadline. The team wasn’t good to start the year.
* We *did* miss all the guys they mention. Needed Guerin to replace Roberts leadership, needed Cooke to replace Ruutu’s grit, needed Fedotenko and Kunitz and Talbot and Guerin all to replace Malone and Hossa’s scoring
* They were right we didn’t have many good prospects coming up, though they were wrong signing Malone would have been preferred. I think we all saw he was gonna get his bag and didn’t want to be on the hook for it.
* We did need Letang to step up and become a star to deal with injuries on the blue line.
Canadian hockey media still thinks it’s 1972 when they encounter a star Russian player.
As for the Pens taking a step back in 2009, it wasn’t looking too good even by Valentine’s Day when Therrien got fired after we got massacred at Toronto and were well out of the race.
But more than any single factor. Bylsma, Guerin, Kunitz… Getting Gonchar back after missing 50+ games was the biggest reason we surged late in the winter all the way to the Cup.
the hockey news is a RAG
I mean it wasn’t all bad.
Sabu wasn’t much of a backup goalie.
Hindsight is 20/20
No one could have predicted they’d win the cup. Only a fool would.
I mean Ken Campbell is historically known for his bad takes so can’t really be stunned that he’s getting the writing credit here. It can go in the hall of shit takes right next to Crosby passing the baton or Rossi “knowing what’s coming” that one summer.
Ken Campbell is a dipshit.Never understood the heart of the sport or its players or the intangibles that can’t be quantified and make up a large part of winning teams.
As a leaf fan I fucking wish real life played out like video games where those intangible qualities like toughness , grit and courage don’t matter.
Would’ve been to several fucking cup parades already 😞
He was right for about half of that 2008-2009 season.
As a side note, people really hated on Malkin since he arrived in the NHL. Clearly talented but why keep him? I’ll never understand that line of thinking, even now 15 years later.
The Pens slapped it in Ken Campbells slot
At the time it was not a bad take and was a legit concern, Malkin dominated the 2009 season and was arguably the best player in the league better than Sid even that whole season and playoffs so trade him is a bad take. They got Guerin A decent backup as the season went on so they was fine but it was a def legit concern, players stepped up and made up for the production they lost, guys like TK and Kunitz
He goes on about losing their grittiest player, Rutuu, and Gary Roberts. The addition of Matt Cooke and Tyler Kennedy was a huge upgrade. That was the best third line in hockey and was what Mike Babcock credits for the Wings losing that series.
As far as I remember, we were out of the playoffs in Ferbuary 2009 when Therrien was fired so… this is bad only in hindsight