We see in football on both college and NFL levels of hits to the head automatically draw penalties regardless of intent. And intentional are more severe, but at least penalty/fine is involved. We also see in basketball, flagrant fouls and reviews to any contact to the head, again whether accidental or not.
And I won't be at work. So I can yell instructions to the players through the TV loud enough for them to hear me. They mostly respond when I preclude the instruction with "F'ing". "F'ing score F'ing hit that guy. F'ing shoot" F'ing...Yeah. F'ing F'ing Yeah!".
I think we lose because of Crosby being out. Domingue hasn't been good and Malkin is too hit or miss. I want us to win badly but I think the Pens will struggle tonight without Sid. Hope I'm wrong.
Malkin is 35. Carter is 37. Those are not ages where guys carry teams on their backs. Sid is 34, but he is otherworldly.
Those guys have their names on the Cup. That is not an honour given lightly.
So does Gordie Howe. Doesn't mean I want him suiting up.
No of course not. Well maybe Carter, but they can't. But Carter definitely needs to be better and I wouldn't just automatically play him on the 2nd line. Geno really needs to somehow find his past self and give us that type of player with Crosby out. He has done that many times before, I am just worried that Father Time has now caused him to slow down.
Dom has been as good as anyone could have remotely expected…but I agree he has to be approaching the breaking point. One of these games will be the floodgates game with him, I fear, and I think chances are good it will be tonight as I mentioned earlier. I see the refs coming down on the Pen’s for daring to be unhappy about the Crosby takeout, and calling a bunch of spite penalties on the Pens, especially if someone dares push back on a Ranger cheap shot. The NHL is infamous for punishing the victim. And there’s simply limits to the adversity that a team trying to survive with a beer league goalie can cope with.
I'm going out on a limb and predicting that the Pens will blow out the Rangers tonight!
Actually I would hope the refs call some ticky tack penalties on the Rangers tonight to make up for Crosby getting hit in the head and being out. I think that might happen early tbh. And if so we need to capitalize.
They SHOULD indeed do that but long experience has shown it doesn’t happen that way.
Let's just be clear, the bottom 3 lines now suck and if Malkin is the bad Malkin the first line isn't great now either. Losing Sid could really have huge consequences.
I’m overall not a Malkin guy for the past 5 years or so…but Malkin often has stepped up his play (in the right ways) at other times they’ve missed Crosby.
What ?
Poker is only happy when he’s virtually slitting his wrist and posting about the blood .
I think Geno has been fine this series. It would help if his wingers could put pucks on net.
He seems likeable, in the way you give the beggar on Forbes your pocket change. You cannot question his dedication and loyalty. I think he wants us to win, but just cannot risk the hurt that happens if we don't.
If you and @goalieman think so,I’m completely on the train!!
Most of what you write is true, but there’s no question at all that Trouba was absolutely trying to injure Crosby. Why else do it? If merely trying to disrupt him, a basic shoulder to shoulder hit would suffice. Even a trip or a hold if needing to go that route. No, he went with the destructive blow to the head of a guy with globally known concussion problems.
I’m not suggesting what you are saying is untrue. But what he did is still basically within the rules. And those rules need to change.
He’s an emotional mess .
Well it’s a bit like recruiting tampering that is the other topic of interest here. As with the tampering with Addison prior to entering the portal, Elbowing to the head is NOT within the rules, but the officials conveniently (for the Rangers) chose not to enforce it, neither right then and there, nor afterward.
